Marta Peño

Marta Peño was born in 1994 in Madrid (Spain), where she began at age 4 his musical studies with Sergio Castro and Anna Baget. She continued her violin career in Musikene (San Sebastián, Spain) with Keiko Wataya and in the Hochschule Luzern (Switzerland) with Daniel Dodds, obtaining a Soloist Master Diplom and playing a final concert as a soloist in the KKL Luzern with the Festival Strings Lucerne. She has also received violin masterclasses from Mimi Zweig, Peter Brunt, Isabelle Van Keulen or Anton Steck.

Her passion for chamber music leads her into an activity of several concerts, playing in festivals and halls in Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Germany or Italy, like the Bilbao Musica Musika Festival, Salzburg Sommerakademie or Lucca Boccherini Festival. She received chamber music and string quartet masterclasses from Heime Müller, Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartett), Kuss Quartett, Cuarteto Quiroga, Isabel Chairisius, Maurice Bourgue, Helmut Lachenmann, Benedicte Palko or Andoni Mercero.

Since the beginning of 2018, she is a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, playing in the Musikverein in Viena, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and other european halls and learning from different conductors like Lorenzo Viotti or Jonathan Nott. She plays regularly with the Festival Strings Lucerne under the leadership of its concertmaster Daniel Dodds.