Leticia Moreno (Violin soloist)
Highly praised as a truly exciting and versatile violinist, Leticia Muñoz Moreno
“captivates audiences and critics alike with her natural charisma, virtuoso
skill and deep interpretative force”. Recently she was presented with Europe’s
prestigious Echo Rising Star award. She has appeared under such renowned
conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Yuri Temirkanov, Krzysztof Penderecki, Vladimir
Spivakov, Maxim Vengerov, Ivor Bolton, John Axelrod, John Nelson, Walter Weller,
Pinchas Steinberg, Günther Herbig, Eiji Oue, Josep Pons, Víctor Pablo Pérez,
Jesús López-Cobos, Pedro Halffter, Christian Vásquez, Andrés Orozco Estrada and
Juanjo Mena among others and with leading orchestras including the Wiener
Symphoniker, the Mozarteumorchester, the St Petersburg Philharmonic, the
National Philharmonic of Russia, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Sinfonia
Varsovia, the Besançon Symphony Orchestra, the Essener Philharmoniker, the
Taipei Symphony Orchestra and the Orquesta Simón Bolívar and is a regular guest
with most of the major Spanish orchestras in addition to appearing at such
venues as the Wiener Konzerthaus, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Wigmore
Hall, Prague’s Rudolfinum, the Bayreuth Opernhaus, Moscow and St Petersburg’s
Philharmonic Halls, Taipei’s National Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, most of
Spain’s concert venues and festivals such as those in Lockenhaus (invited by
Gidon Kremer) Rheingau, Colmar, Besançon, Ravinia, St Petersburg (Musical
Olympus), Passau and Davos as well as the Beethoven Festival to name but a few.
She was a winner of international competitions such as the Szeryng
Competition, the Concertino Praga, the Novosibirsk Competition, the Sarasate
Competition and the Kreisler Competition, at which the press praised “her
unprecedented interpretation of the Shostakovich Concerto Op. 99”. Other prizes
include the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Emily Anderson Prize, the Philharmonia
Orchestra’s Martin Musical Scholarship and Spanish AIE and JJMM awards. Recently
she was awarded the LOTTO Förderpreis by the Rheingau Music Festival, where she
is a regular guest performer. Current and recent engagements include her debuts
with Zubin Mehta and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, receiving an immediate
invitation to return next season.
Leticia has just completed a
twenty-concert tour as part of the Echo Rising Star award at Europe’s most
important venues such as the Wiener Musikverein, the Théâtre des Champs Élysées,
London’s Barbican Centre and Baden-Baden’s Festspielhaus among others. Following
a successful tour with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by
Yuri Temirkanov, the maestro invited her to close the season performing
Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto in St Petersburg as well as appearing on a
tour to the UK. Her successful debut with the Orquesta Simón Bolívar under
Christian Vásquez performing both Szymanowski concerti has led to further return
invitations to perform the Dvořák and Britten violin concerti this season.
Future engagements include an open-air concert with Andrés Orozco Estrada and
the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra as well as her debut in the USA with maestro
Eschenbach and the Washington National Symphony Orchestra in March 2015.
As a keen recitalist and chamber musician, Leticia has collaborated
alongside Cédric Tiberghien, Kirill Gerstein, Alexander Ghindin, Lauma Skride,
Polina Leschenko, Pietro de Maria, Sol Gabetta, Marie Hallynck, Mario Brunello,
Leonard Elschenbroich, Maxim Rysanov, Simon Rattle and members of the Berlin
Counterpoint, Martin Stadtfeld and Ana-María Vera. Leticia studied under Zakhar
Bron at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid and the
Musikhochschule in Cologne, being the youngest member of the prestigious
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. She completed her academic education at the
Saarland Musikhochshule under Maxim Vengerov, going on to graduate with honours
from London’s Guildhall School of Music with David Takeno as her advisor.
She had the privilege of receiving the advice Mstislav Rostropovich, who
mentored her during his final years. Leticia has recorded Édouard Lalo’s
Symphonie éspagnole with Verso, the works of Carmelo Bernaola with his pupil
Juanjo Mena and the Euskadi Symphony Orchestra on the Swiss label Claves and has
just embarked on a new recording project to rescue unknown Spanish music. The
first CD for violin and piano will be launched simultaneously with her European
Echo Rising Star tour. HM King Felipe VI of Spain recently awarded her the
Impulsa Art and Literature Award as part of the Principe de Girona Foundation,
with which she is involved in an educational programme to attract the younger
generation (aged between sixteen and thirty-five) to classical music and
concerts. The project began with an event in March 2013 which took place in
Barcelona’s Liceu and was attended by King Felipe, then Prince of Asturias.
Leticia plays a Nicolò Gagliano dating from 1762.
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