picture courtesy of Luís Montesdeoca Domínguez

 

Vera MARTINEZ MEHNER,Violin

Vera Martinez-Mehner was born in 1978 in Madrid , five years old she began violin lessons . At the Escuela Superior de Musica in Madrid she studied primarily with Sergei Fatkouline and Zakhar Bron. With Professor Bron she continued to work in Cologne at the Hochschule für Musik and graduated with the concert diploma.

Vera has won awards including First Prize and Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of a Classical Work at the international violin competition Kloster Schöntal in 1995 and Second Prize at the International Henry Wieniawsky Competition in Poland in 1997.

As soloist Vera has performed with the Orquesta sinfónica de Santo Domingo, Orquesta de la Escuela Reina Sofía and the Orquesta sinfónica de Palma de Mallorca throughout Europe and Central America and has worked with such important conductors as Zubin Mehta, Yehudi Menuhin, James Judd and Victor Pablo. She has also played chamber music with such artists as Gerard Caussé, Marta Gulyàs and Harald Schoneweg and in the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.