Paloma Pérez López,
Viola, baroque viola and viola da gamba specialist.
She began her studies with Antonio Clares in Murcia, Spain, where she was repeatedly awarded with honours and distinctions during her last courses. She moved to Seville, where she continued her education as a viola da gamba soloist with Ventura Rico. During these years she combined her studies with regular trips to Germany and Austria, where she received masterclasses from Veronika Hagen, Dorle Sommer; Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Giuseppe Russo Rossi; Teatro alla Scala, Milan, among others.
Later on, she studied in Moscow with Igor Boguslavsky and Alexander Bobrovsky at the P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she also received master classes in chamber music with Vladimir Yurigin-Klevk and viola with Yuri Bashmet.
She has given concerts as a soloist in Spain, as part of the I Festival de Jóvenes Orquestas (1st Youth Orchestra Festival), and outside Spain, with various international orchestras in Europe and Russia. She has played in prestigious concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmony, the Vienna Musikverein, or the Alice Tully Hall – Lincoln Center, New York, among others.
After these years she settled in Salzburg, where she studied viola at the Mozarteum and was taught by Thomas Riebl, Milan Radic and Peter Langgartner. During this time, she took part in several concerts as well as the Mozart Week.
She then moved to Vienna, where she was admitted as a viola da gamba student at the Vienna Conservatory of Music: Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität. There she studied with Professor Pierre Pitzl. During these years in Vienna she performed concerts with the viola da gamba in prestigious halls, such as the Wiener Musikverein or the famous MuseumsQuartier in the heart of Vienna. He has worked with Virginia Martínez, Ignacio García-Vidal, Anatoly Levin, Michael Thomas and Daniel Barenboim, among others conductors.
At present, she works on a regular basis with different national and international orchestras, as well as with different groups and ensembles devoted to early, renaissance and baroque music.