À mon ami Sarasate... Ana María Valderrama and Luis del Valle

After her debut as a soloist with Zubin Mehta in the concert celebrating the 70th birthday of Her Majesty the Queen of Spain (at the inauguration of the Sony Auditorium of the Queen Sofia School of Music), Ana María Valderrama established herself as one of the most acclaimed Spanish violinists of the moment and a clear emerging value of the European music scene.

Winner of the First Prize and the Audience's Special Prize at the XI Pablo Sarasate International Violin Competition 2011, Ana María is the first Spanish violinist to win this prestigious award. She has also won other important competitions: Lisbon International Violin Competition (Portugal), Novosibirsk International Violin Competition (Russia), Certamen Nacional de Interpretación Intercentros Melómano (Madrid) or the Primer Palau Prize (Barcelona), to highlight some of them.

He has developed an intense concert career and has performed as soloist with international orchestras such as the Niederbayerischen Philharmonie, St. Petersbourg'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 of the Spanish orchestras. He 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 or Zubin Mehta. Also dedicated to chamber music, Ana María has performed in 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 or Tardes de España (St. Petersburg), among others. He forms a stable duo with the pianist Luis del Valle, with whom he has recorded his first album, À mon ami Sarasate, dedicated to the Navarrese composer. His next recording project will include two of the most important sonatas of the romantic period for violin: the Sonata no. 3 by Johannes Brahms and the Sonata in A Major by César Franck.

Born in Malaga in 1983, he trained as a musician at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Málaga and later at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía. In 2005 he received from the hands of Her Majesty the Queen the distinction of "Most Outstanding Student" of the Chair of Chamber Music. 

Linked especially to the world of chamber music, Luis del Valle collaborates actively with different ensembles and instrumental soloists, although his projection as an emerging value of the music scene is undoubtedly due to his concert career. Winner of the prestigious ARD International Music Competition (Munich, 2005), he was soon recognized as one of the most outstanding chamber music ensembles in Europe.

He has performed at the Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid, Teatro Monumental de Madrid, Teatro de la Maestranza (Seville), Palau de la Música de Cataluña, Auditori and Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria (Santander), Auditorium Dom Musiki (Moscow), Herkulessaal, Prinzregentententheater and Gasteig (Munich), Liederhalle (Stuttgart), Congress Centrum (Hannover), Théâtre des bouffes du Nord (Paris), Teatro Nacional (Panamá), Teatro Metropolitano de Medellín (Colombia), Sibelius Academy Concert Hall, Finlandia Hall and Finnish National Opera (Helsinki), etc.

He currently combines his concert activity with his teaching at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón, and is frequently invited to give master classes in piano and chamber music both in Spain and abroad.