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Ana Luque Fernandez, violin
October 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Born in Granada (Spain), Ana Luque Fernandez holds degrees in violin and chamber music from Granada and Murcia Conservatories in Spain. Ana also graduated from the Louisiana State University in the USA as a Master of Music in Violin Performance (1996) and as a Doctor of Musical Arts (2002).
Her main teachers have been Joaquín Palomares, Camilla Wicks, and Kevork Mardirossian, having also received advice from Danuta Glowacka, Dennis Parker, Yair Kless, Fredell Lack, and Yfrah Neaman, among others.
She has held orchestra positions in the Murcia Chamber Orchestra (1989-1991) and the Murcia Symphony Orchestra (1991-1993) in Spain, and the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra (1994-2000) in the USA. Since 1993, she plays regularly with the Granada Symphony Orchestra (OCG).
Ana has been a founding member of the Atlántico String Quartet and Carezzévole Piano Trío, and collaborates with many other chamber music projects having performed in the USA, Spain, Finland, Colombia and Morocco.
She is the author of the monograph The Works of Manuel Quiroga: A Catalogue (Louisiana State University, USA 2002), the book The Music of Manuel Quiroga Losada (VDM-Verlag, 2009) and the article Catalogación y Revisión de la Producción Musical de Manuel Quiroga Losada (1r Congrés Internacional Investigació en Música, Valencia, 2010).
Also, she has been professor at the string summer courses “Música y Naturaleza” (2000-2006) and Da Capo Strings School (2011-2019). Moreover, she has been guest instructor at different conservatories in Spain and international institutions such as: I Barenboim-Said Foundation´s Master of Orchestral Studies (Seville, Spain, 2008); III International String Academy (Pereira, Colombia, 2012); and Jacobs School of Music (Bloomington-Indiana, USA, 2013).
Ana has been tenure violin professor in Seville´s Conservatory “Francisco Guerrero” (2000-2002), Granada´s Conservatory “Angel Barrios” (2002-2006), and in Granada´s Real Conservatorio Superior “Victoria Eugenia” since 2006.