Fernando Marín
Originally from Alicante (Spain), the highly acclaimed viola da gambist and cellist, Fernando Marín, holds a doctorate in musicology and is specialized in early bowed instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque. He studied in Oviedo, Prague, Cologne, Brussels and Barcelona. He has published five solo CDs: eVIOLution, on the origins and evolution of the viola da gamba, sCORDAtura, on the use of historical gut strings and different tunings, The Art of the Vihuela de arco, Magia Consoni et Dissoni, and Cello’s inside.
Currently he designs and builds his own historical instruments and produces and supervices his own recordings. He regularly collabroates with Capilla de Ministrers and Carles Magraner in concerts and recordings. He has also published articles on musical rhetoric, improvisation, gut strings, and interpretation of early music in journals of musicology. In 2017 he won a Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators of the BBVA Foundation with the project: the recovery and interpretation of Renaissance Vihuelas de arco. Since 2003 he is the Viola da Gamba teacher at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música in Zaragoza. www.vihueladearco.com
“It is astounding how much emotion and beauty can be found in such a simple instrument, which imitates the human voice…The wings of the listener’s hearts were opened”
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