The Spanish violinist María Dueñas captivates her audience with her extraordinary range of timbres, her technical skill and her artistic maturity.

Her meteoric rise led to an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon. After her debut album Beethoven and Beyond won an Opus Klassik award, she received two Gramophone Classical Music Awards in 2025 for her second album – an ambitious project centred on Paganini’s legendary 24 Caprices.

María Dueñas has already collaborated with the world’s leading orchestras, including the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Bamberger Symphoniker, the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, Pittsburgh Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Accademia di Santa Cecilia und the Orchestre de Paris. In doing so, she has performed with a host of highly esteemed conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Herbert Blomstedt, Christian Thielemann, Marin Alsop, Christoph Eschenbach, Manfred Honeck, Marek Janowski, Daniel Harding, Andris Nelsons, Alan Gilbert, Paavo Järvi, Kent Nagano, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

Highlights of the 2025/2026 season included her debuts with Karina Canellakis and the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Salzburg Mozart Week and with Manfred Honeck and the New York Philharmonic, concerts to mark Zubin Mehta’s 90th birthday with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and a tour of Australia and New Zealand.

María Dueñas plays a 1779 Giambattista Guadagnini violin on loan from the Deutsche Stifung Musikleben as well as the 1718 ›Michelangelo‹ Stradivarius on generous loan from the Karolina Blaberg Stiftung.

The Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra owes her international breakthrough to her rousing concerts and her commitment to music by Latin American composers. She is the official cultural ambassador of her homeland Mexico and to date has conducted over one hundred of the world’s most renowned orchestras, including the Orchestre de Paris, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphoniker and the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich. Between 2017 and 2019, Alondra de la Parra was also General Music Director of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, making her the first ever female chief conductor of an Australian orchestra.

She became known to a wide audience due to her many live concert broadcasts and appearances, in particular through the web and television editions of the Deutsche Welle’s ›Musica Maestra‹ in which Alondra de la Parra was not only a protagonist but also appeared as the reporter. In the 2019/20 season, the concert she conducted in the Frauenkirche with the Staatskapelle Dresden was broadcast on ZDF, as indeed was her celebrated return to the Orchestre de Paris, which was broadcast live on ARTE. Further highlights of the last season include a world premiere of the new production about Carlus Padrissa – T.H.A.M.O.S. – at the Salzburg Mozart Week, together with the Camerata Salzburg and the Catalan theatre group La Fura dels Baus, as well as her debut at the Easter Festival in Aix-ex-Provence.

This artist has enjoyed a close and regular working relationship with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years.