LARA FERNÁNDEZ | Viola course

Lara Fernández Ponce is the violist of the Cosmos Quartet and since 2018 professor of viola and chamber music at the Higher Conservatory of Music of Aragon (CSMA). Together with her quartet, she has won numerous awards in international competitions such as the Irene Steels Heidelberg International Chamber Music Competition, the BBVA Chamber Music Award Montserrat Alavedra, Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition in Weimar, and Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition in Copenhagen. Their first two CDs "Influences I and II" have received excellent reviews and enjoy a successful concert career. They are currently the resident group at the Palau de la Música Catalana. Born in Soria, she began her viola studies with teachers like Jensen Horn Sin Lam and Elena Pochekina in Madrid. She continues at the CSMA with Avri Levitan, Quiroga Quartet, and Kennedy Moretti. She pursued her Master's studies at the Hochschule fur Musik "Hanns-Eisler" in Berlin with Volker Sprenger and Eberhard Feltz and later a chamber music master's degree at the Hochschule fur Musik in Hannover alongside her Cosmos Quartet colleagues, with Prof. Oliver Wille (Kuss Quartet) with whom she has also been part of the ECMA (European Chamber Music Academy) and the international social project "Musethica". As a soloist, she has performed works by Bach, Telemann, Bruch, Vivaldi, and Bartók, among others. She plays a viola by David Bagué (2019).