ABOUT
Salomé was born in Alcorcón 1997 and started playing viola at the age of seven under the guidance of Remei Silvestre and later of Mariano Pulido, finishing Conservatory with the Final Degree Special Prize. She studied Bachelor at the Conservatori Liceu de Barcelona awarded with and Excellence Scholarship from Ferrer-Salat Foundation and an Instrument Scholarship of a Marino Capicchioni Viola.
In 2019, she moved to Berlin where she is studying her Soloist Master in the Universität der Künste with Prof. H. Jochen Greiner. Currently she plays an Alfred Leicht viola made in Berlin 1968, loaned from the University.
All along her career she has received coaching from international artists such as Thomas Selditz, Pauline Sachse, Hartmut Rohde, Joaquín Riquelme, Alejandro Regueira, Hagen Quartet, Thomas Riebl, Quartet Casals, Francesc Galla and Stephanie Baer, among others.
As a soloist, she has been awarded with the 2nd prize at the XXI Llanes International Viola Competition 2019, 2nd Prize at the Cidade de Vigo String Competition 2018, a Barenreiter Prize as finalist in Juventudes Musicales String Competition in 2016 and the 1st Prize at the HAZEN Young Artists Competition in 2007. In 2017, she was finalist of Intercentros Melómano Competition in Spain. Thanks to these distinctions, she has been able to perform in different cities throughout Spain. For the current season 2020-2021 she is part of the Catalog of Red de Músicas from Juventudes Musicales de España, accompanied by the pianist Celia Coruña.
She is member of Amika Kvartet, string quartet formed during her Bachelor in Barcelona under the patronage of Ferrer-Salat Foundation. Together they have participated in Rencontres Musicales de Mediterraneé Festival and were awarded with 1st Prize at XII Chamber Music Competition Higini Anglès, 2nd Prize at the X Barcelona Chamber Music Competition; and they were finalist at Paper de Música de Capellades International Chamber Music Competition. The quartet has offered concerts at the XVI Cycle of Concerts Joves Intèrprets de la Garriga, within the catalog of Joves & Clàssica from Juventudes Musicales de Barcelona, Reus Conservatory Auditorium, as part of the catalog from the festival Nits del Museus at Palau Güell in Barcelona, or the catalog from the Cycle of Concerts Intérpretes Juveniles from the Modernism Museum in Barcelona.
They finished their education with an Extraordinary Prize 2019 in Chamber Music from the Conservatori Liceu.
Regarding orchestras, Salomé is member of JONDE (Spain National Youth Orchestra) and EUYO (European Union Youth Orchestra), with which she has had the opportunity to work with conductors as Pablo González, Vasily Petrenko, Iván Fischer, Stephan Denéve… and perform in Auditorium such as Berlin Konzerthaus, Madrid National Auditorium of Music, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie or Muscat Royal Opera House. Also, she has collaborated with professional orchestras like OBC (Barcelona Symphony Orchestra), Orchestra from the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Barbieri Symphony Orchestra and Sinfónica Verum Orchestra.