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.