Vera Martínez Mehner

Born in Madrid, she studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music with professors Serguei Fatkouline and Zakhar Bron, with whom she completed her advanced studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. At the same time, she completed her studies in Germany with a postgraduate degree in chamber music as a member of the Casals Quartet under the tutelage of the Alban Berg Quartet.She has won important prizes such as the First Prize and Special Prize for the best classical interpretation of the Kloster Schöntal International Competition (1995) and the Second Prize of the Henry Wieniawsky International Violin Competition in Poland (1997). As a member of the Casals Quartet, she has won First Prizes at the International Competitions of London (2000) and Hamburg (2002) and the National Music Prize in 2006.
As a soloist, she has performed with several orchestras such as the Santo Domingo Symphony Orchestra, the Reina Sofía School of Music Chamber Orchestra, the Palma de Mallorca Symphony Orchestra, the Andrés Segovia Chamber Orchestra and the Reina Sofía Chamber Orchestra, with conductors such as James Judd, Victor Pablo, Antoni Ros Marbà, Zubin Mehta and Yehudi Menuhin. She has collaborated with the Deutsche Kammerphilarmonie Bremen and played in chamber music concerts with musicians such as Gérard Caussé, Harald Schoneweg, Marta Gulyàs and Claudio Martínez Mehner. She regularly performs piano-violin recitals with her brother Claudio and is also a member of the Funktion group, with whom she is dedicated to the world of contemporary music.Since the age of 18, she has been a founding member of the Casals Quartet, with which she has performed concerts in the most prestigious halls in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Japan. The quartet records exclusively for the Harmonia Mundi record label, with which it has made numerous recordings from Arriaga to Kurtág.
Currently, Vera Martínez Mehner is a professor of violin and chamber music at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, in addition to being invited to give masterclasses in Europe and the United States.