The Spanish violinist María Dueñas enchants her audience with the breathtaking variety of colors she elicits from her instrument. Her technical skill, artistic maturity and bold interpretations inspire rave reviews and earn her invitations from the world’s best orchestras and conductors.
Born in Granada in 2002, she was accepted to the conservatory in her home town at the age of seven. Since 2016, she has been studying with the world-renowned violin teacher Boris Kuschnir at the Music and Arts Private University in her adopted home of Vienna. After winning a number of first prizes at prestigious international competitions, she is now in demand worldwide and performs with leading orchestras such as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Staatskapelle Berlin and NHK Symphony Orchestra under conductors such as Manfred Honeck, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Marek Janowski, Daniel Harding, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Kent Nagano and Herbert Blomstedt. She maintains a close relationship with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel.
In 2023, she released her first album Beethoven and Beyond with Manfred Honeck and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra as an exclusive artist of Deutsche Grammophon.
María Dueñas plays the Nicolò Gagliano violin from 17?4, on loan from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, and the Stradivarius “Camposelice” from 1710, which was made available to her by the Nippon Music Foundation.