LETICIA MORENO

The violin warrior

The 36 year old Spanish violinist Leticia Moreno began her musical education in Boston at the young age of three on violin and piano with the Suzuki Method, giving her first recitals when she was only five years old. In 1996 she studied six years with the legendary professor Zakhar Bron at the Reina Sofía School of Music and in Germany at the Köln Musikhochschule. 

At twelve she was giving concerts throughout Europe. 

One of her great mentors was Mstislav Rostropovich, the best cellist in history who once told her that she was a ‘guardian of music’. 

Leticia Moreno studied at the Reina Sofia School of Music in Madrid, the Cologne School of Music and the Guildhall School in London. She has won international violin competitions and was nominated for the FPdGi Arts and Letters Award. 

At the age of nineteen she won the first prize in the Kreisler competition, playing with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra the Violin Concerto Opus 99 by Dimitri Shostakovich. Her performance was described as “unprecedented” by specialized critics, while the Austrian media defined her as “the new Martha Argerich of the violin.” 

Being awarded as Echo Rising Star in 2012 projected her internationally and led her into the most relevant European venues until she became one of the great talents of the violin. Versatile and meticulous, Moreno has worked with top conductors such as Yuri Temirkànov, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Zubin Mehta, Krzysztof Penderecki, Josep Pons and Juanjo Mena, among others, and has collaborated with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, St. Philharmonic Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra, as well as with the main Spanish and Latin American orchestras. 

Following the release of his latest CD dedicated to Astor Piazzolla (Deutsche Grammophon) with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by A. Orozco-Estrada, she has become a world reference in the repertoire of the Argentine composer. Moreno has also recorded two CDs with Deutche Grammophon: Spanish Landscapes and the Violin Concerto no. 1 Shostakovich with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic conducted by I. Temirkanov. 

For her, music is more than a way of life. Her violin, she claims, is a “little extension” of her body. “It is with what I can be more sincere, something with which I can make people happy, and this makes me very happy too. It is liberating, to be able to play this instrument and that speaks back to you. It is an important company ” 

This 2020/21 season will debut with the São Paolo Symphony Orchestra under the baton of J. Pons, with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and A. Méndez. She will also be the resident artist of the Valencia Orchestra and will perform with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.