To my friend Sarasate... Ana María Valderrama and Luis del Valle

Following her solo debut alongside Zubin Mehta at the concert celebrating the 70th birthday of Her Majesty the Queen of Spain (at the inauguration of the Sony Auditorium of the Reina Sofía School of Music), Ana María Valderrama established herself as one of the most acclaimed Spanish violinists of the moment and a clear emerging talent on the European music scene.

Winner of First Prize and the Special Audience Prize at the 11th Pablo Sarasate International Violin Competition in 2011, Ana María is the first Spanish violinist to win this prestigious award. She has also won other important competitions, including the Lisbon International Violin Competition (Portugal), the Novosibirsk International Violin Competition (Russia), the Melómano National Inter-Center Performance Competition (Madrid), and the Primer Palau Prize (Barcelona), to name a few.

He has developed an intense concert career and has performed as a soloist with international orchestras such as the Niederbayerischen Philharmonie, St. Petersburg's Academic Symphony Orchestra, Novosibirsk Orchestra, Yucatán Symphony Orchestra, Nottingham Symphony Orchestra, Lisbon Music Festival Orchestra, Medellín Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Régionale de Cannes, and most Spanish orchestras. She has collaborated with important conductors such as Philippe Bender, Dereck Williams, Antoni Ros Marbâ, Juan Felipe Molano, Emmanuel Leducq-Barome, Xavier Puig, Salvador Brotons, Alejandro Posada, Peter Csaba, Yuki Kakiuchi, Jordi Bernàcer, Ilych Rivas, Maximiano Valdés, Michel Tabachnik, Michal Nesterowicz, Yaron Traub, David Lockington, Jesús López Cobos, and Zubin Mehta. Also dedicated to chamber music, Ana María has played at festivals such as Open Chamber Music (Prussia Cove), Santander International Festival, Segovia International Festival, Yellow Barn (USA), Cádiz Spanish Music Festival, Úbeda International Music Festival, and Tardes de España (St. Petersburg), among others. She forms a permanent duo with pianist Luis del Valle, with whom she has recorded her first album, À mon ami Sarasate, dedicated to the Navarrese composer. Her next recording project will include two of the most important sonatas of the Romantic period for violin: Johannes Brahms' Sonata No. 3 and César Franck's Sonata in A Major.

Born in Malaga in 1983, he trained as a musician at the Malaga Conservatory of Music and later at the Reina Sofia School of Music. In 2005, he received the distinction of "Most Outstanding Student" in Chamber Music from Her Majesty the Queen. 

Particularly linked to the world of chamber music, Luis del Valle actively collaborates with different ensembles and instrumental soloists, although his emergence as a rising star on the music scene is undoubtedly due to his concert career. Winner of the prestigious ARD International Music Competition (Munich, 2005), he was quickly recognized as one of the most outstanding chamber music ensembles in Europe.

He has performed at the National Music Auditorium in Madrid, the Monumental Theater in Madrid, the Maestranza Theater (Seville), the Palau de la Música in Catalonia, the Auditori and the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), the Cantabria Festival Palace (Santander), the Dom Musiki Auditorium (Moscow), the Herkulessaal, Prinzregententheater and Gasteig (Munich), the Liederhalle (Stuttgart), the Congress Centrum (Hannover), Théâtre des bouffes du Nord (Paris), National Theater (Panama), Metropolitan Theater of Medellín (Colombia), Sibelius Academy Concert Hall, Finlandia Hall, and Finnish National Opera (Helsinki), etc.

He currently combines his concert activities with teaching at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón (Aragon Conservatory of Music), and is frequently invited to give master classes in piano and chamber music both in Spain and abroad.