Maria Victoria (Mavi) Pedrero

Cellist, Artist, and Musician in A Coruña, España

Maria Victoria (Mavi) Pedrero

Cellist, Artist, and Musician in A Coruña, España

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Cello Tutti at the Galicia Symphony Orchestra during the 19/20 and 20/21 seasons and Third Chair, and eventually Co-Principal and Principal Cello at the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra (Spain) during the 17/18 & 18/19 seasons. Cello tutti at the same institution during the 2014-2017 seasons, Ms. Pedrero performs extensively with the Comunidad Valenciana Les Arts Orchestra (Spain) and occasionally with the Mitteleuropa Orchestra (Italy), Santo Domingo Festival Orchestra (Dominican Republic), the Cadaqués Orchestra (Spain), the Spanish Radio and Tv Symphony Orchestra RTVE (Spain) and the Madrid Symphony Orchestra (Spain).

First Prize Winner of the AFAF Golden Strings of America International Competition, the OSCyL Concerto Competition, Cristina Bruno Prize and Peabody Honor Ensembles Competition, she performed Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the Galicia Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra and Beethoven's Triple Concerto touring with the Presjovem Orchestra.

She performed M. Ravel’s Kaddish and E. Bloch Prayer with the Presjovem Camerata and Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the Balearic Symphony Orchestra. She performed A Jewish Life by E. Bloch with the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra under maestro Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez.

As a chamber music collaborator with pianist Leon Fleisher she has appeared for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, the 92nd Street Y Chamber Series in New York, at the Library of Congress Chamber Music Series, and The Kennedy Center, Washington D.C with the Ars Nova Trio.

Ms. Pedrero has been awarded the Yale Gordon Chamber Music Fellowship, Spanish Musicians Association AIE Scholarship, and Fundación Caja Madrid Fellowship for Graduate Studies.

She began her musical studies with Marius Diaz with whom she studied at the Conservatorio Superior de Salamanca where she was awarded a Bachelors of Music summa cum laude. At the same time, she studied with Michel Strauss, at the CRR Boulogne Billancourt-Paris (France).

In 2011, she received her Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Institute of Music of the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA) and in 2013 an additional Graduate Performance Diploma in Chamber Music. She was awarded the Grace Caggelt Ranney Prize in Chamber Music by the same institution.

She performed her solo debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall (USA) in June 2013.

  • Work
    • OSG
  • Education
    • GPD in Chamber Music, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
    • GPD in Cello Performance, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
    • DEM CRR Boulogne Billancourt, France
    • Bachelor of Music Conservatorio Superior de Música de Salamanca