Jimena Rojas Redondo

Born in Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain, in 2004. Since 2021, she studies at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s Telefónica Violin Chair with professor Marco Rizzi. She has been granted scholarships by Ayuntamiento de Madrid and Fundación Albéniz. He plays an 18th century violin made by German Luthier Johann Gottlieb Martin, loaned as an instrument scholarship by Juan Zozaya Stabel-Hansen.

She started her violin studies at the age of 3. She later entered the Majadahonda Music Conservatory (Madrid) with professor Javier Pérez Largacha. From 2016 to 2019 she studied with Sergo Lazarev at the Katarina Gurska Center, and since 2020, she has attended private classes from Sergey Teslya. She has attended masterclasses by Christian Ifrim, Sergio Castro, Ana María Valderrama, Frederieke Saeijs, Miriam Fried, Alina Pogostkina, Helena Poggio (string ensembles) and Sergey Teslya himself.

Since 2016 to 2019 she was a member of the Fundación BBVA-ORCAM Children Camerata, with whom she performed at Madrid’s National Music Auditorium and at Musikene (Guipúzcoa), among other venues. In the summer of 2019, she was a member of Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Young, the Netherlands, and under the baton of Pablo Heras Casado, she also performed at the Concertgebouw and at Brussels’ Flagey Concert Hall in Belgium, among other venues.

She has been awarded many prize such as at the 1st Música Callada Young Performers International Competition (2017, Ávila), the 8th City of Cuenca Young Performers National Competition (2018), the 9th La Noche de Madrid Young Performers International Competition-Festival, the 19th Ciutat de Xátiva Young Performers Competition in the bowed string category (2020). She also won the third prize at Zywiec’s Witold Rowicki in Memoriam 2019 International Violin Competition (Poland), and at Madrid’s 18th Intercentros Melómano National Competition.

As a student of the School, she has played with the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Juanjo Mena; the Freixenet Chamber Orquestra, conducted by Sir András Schiff and Andrés Salado, and with the Baroque Ensemble of the School, conducted by Paul Goodwin. In 2021 she participated in the 30th anniversary tour of the School with the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, with whom she performed at Madrid's Teatro Real, at Bratislava's Reduta Hall, at Budapest's Liszt Ferenc Academy and at Vienna's Musikverein. She also has been a member of the BBDO Contrapunto Quartet and of the Fundación Mutua Madrileña Ensemble. She is currently part of the Pérez-Llorca Haydn Quartet.