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Maria Dueñas
Violin

Spanish violinist María Dueñas has been studying with Boris Kuschnir at the Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna for several years. She signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon in 2022, and her first release was of the Beethoven Concerto, for which she wrote her own cadenzas, with the Vienna Symphony. At the 2021 Menuhin Violin Competition she won Senior First Prize and the Audience Prize. That same year she also won the Getting to Carnegie Competition, the Grand Prize at the Viktor Tretyakov International Violin Competition, and the Career Advancement Prize at the Rheingau Music Festival. In 2023 she was awarded the Premio Princesa de Girona de las Artes y las Letras in her native Spain.

Ms. Dueñas has recently made debuts with the Pittsburgh Symphony; the Los Angeles, Oslo, Dresden, Luxembourg, and Royal Liverpool philharmonics; and the Staatskapelle Berlin. Tonight marks her Philadelphia Orchestra debut. She returned to the Los Angeles Philharmonic last season for the world premiere of Gabriela Ortiz’s violin concerto, Altar de cuerda, which is dedicated to her. Highlights of her 2022–23 season included a tour with the Toronto Symphony and her debut with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

Born in Granada in 2002, Ms. Dueñas started playing violin at age six and enrolled at Granada’s Conservatory a year later. In 2014 she was awarded a scholarship by Juventudes Musicales Madrid and moved to Dresden to study at the Carl Maria von Weber College of Music. There she was spotted by violinist Wolfgang Hentrich and conductor Marek Janowski, at whose invitation she would later make her debut as soloist with the San Francisco Symphony. In 2016 she and her family moved again, this time to Austria. Ms. Dueñas plays a Nicolò Gagliano violin, kindly loaned by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, and the Stradivarius “Duc de Camposelice” (1710), on generous loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.

Maria Dueñas
Violin

Spanish violinist María Dueñas has been studying with Boris Kuschnir at the Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna for several years. She signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon in 2022, and her first release was of the Beethoven Concerto, for which she wrote her own cadenzas, with the Vienna Symphony. At the 2021 Menuhin Violin Competition she won Senior First Prize and the Audience Prize. That same year she also won the Getting to Carnegie Competition, the Grand Prize at the Viktor Tretyakov International Violin Competition, and the Career Advancement Prize at the Rheingau Music Festival. In 2023 she was awarded the Premio Princesa de Girona de las Artes y las Letras in her native Spain.

Ms. Dueñas has recently made debuts with the Pittsburgh Symphony; the Los Angeles, Oslo, Dresden, Luxembourg, and Royal Liverpool philharmonics; and the Staatskapelle Berlin. Tonight marks her Philadelphia Orchestra debut. She returned to the Los Angeles Philharmonic last season for the world premiere of Gabriela Ortiz’s violin concerto, Altar de cuerda, which is dedicated to her. Highlights of her 2022–23 season included a tour with the Toronto Symphony and her debut with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

Born in Granada in 2002, Ms. Dueñas started playing violin at age six and enrolled at Granada’s Conservatory a year later. In 2014 she was awarded a scholarship by Juventudes Musicales Madrid and moved to Dresden to study at the Carl Maria von Weber College of Music. There she was spotted by violinist Wolfgang Hentrich and conductor Marek Janowski, at whose invitation she would later make her debut as soloist with the San Francisco Symphony. In 2016 she and her family moved again, this time to Austria. Ms. Dueñas plays a Nicolò Gagliano violin, kindly loaned by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, and the Stradivarius “Duc de Camposelice” (1710), on generous loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.