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She was born in San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Spain) in 2001. Since 2018, she studies at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s Aline Foriel-Destezet Cello Chair with professor Jens Peter Maintz. She has been granted scholarships by Consejería de Educación, Universidades y Ciencia de la Comunidad de Madrid and Fundación Albéniz. Her Majesty Queen Sofía handed her the Diploma to the most outstanding student of her chair in the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 academic years.
She began studying the cello at the age of five and graduated with honors from the Centro Integrado de Música ‘Padre Antonio Soler’ in San Lorenzo de El Escorial in 2018, where she studied with Dimitri Furnadjiev and Victoria Rodríguez. At the same time she perfected her studies with María de Macedo and Arantza López Barinagarrementería. She has attended masterclasses with Jean-Guihen Queyras, Gary Hoffman, Lluis Claret, Amit Peled, Daniel Grosgurin, Marc Coppey, Michal Dmochowski, Fernando Arias, Torleif Thedéen, Gautier Capuçon, Alexander Lonquich, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Asier Polo, Frans Helmerson, Pablo Ferrández, Kian Soltani, Ralf Gothóni and Alban Gerhardt, among others.
In 2024 she was awarded first prize at the Juventudes Musicales de España Competition and at the María Herrero International Competition. She received the second prize in the VII David Popper International Competition (Hungary, 2017) and the first prizes in the national competitions Soncello (2015) and Jaime Dobato Benavente (2014). She was also selected to participate in the Proyecto Talentos de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid in 2018, 2019 and 2020. She has performed as a soloist with the Orquesta de Extremadura in 2023 and at the Festival de Música Joven de Segovia in 2015 and, thanks to the Fundación Arbós (Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid), she performed at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (2018) and at the Auditorio
Nacional (2019).
As a student of the School, she has played with the Orquesta Freixenet (conducted by Péter Eotvos, Pablo González and Andrés Orozco-Estrada); with the Sinfonietta (conducted by Baldur Bronnimann); with the Camerata Fundación EDP (conducted by Christoph Poppen); with the Baroque Ensemble of the School (conducted by Paul Goodwin) and in the Ciclo La Generación Ascendente (Auditorio Nacional). In 2021 he took part in the School's 30th anniversary tour with the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, which performed at the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Reduta Hall in Bratislava, the Liszt Ferenc Academy in Budapest and the Musikverein in Vienna.
She has also been a member of the Casa de la Moneda Scarlatti and the Fundación Mutua Madrileña ensembles, the Prosegur Albéniz Quartet and Ensemble, the Puertos del Estado Haendel Quartet, the Amati Trio and that of the KPMG Schubert Quintet. She is currently part of the Strauss and Stoneshield quartets and the Florence May duo.