Rebeca Nuez Suarez

Rebeca Nuez Suarez (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, November 10, 1996), is a Spanish classical violinist.[1]

Rebeca Nuez Suarez
Suarez in 2019
Born (1996-11-10) 10 November 1996
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
OccupationViolinist
Years active2008–present
Websitewww.rebecanuezsuarez.com

Early life

Born into a family of musicians, she started her musical training with her father at the age of three, and began her violin studies with her uncle when she turned six years old. Her uncle, and aunt are both professional violinists and members of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, the main symphony orchestra in the Canary Islands and resident orchestra of the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus, in Gran Canaria.[2]

On stage since the age of seven, Rebeca has been performing publicly from the beginning of her musical studies. She made her solo debut at the age of fourteen with the Joven Orquesta de Gran Canaria under Zdzislaw Tytlak.[3]

In their leisure time her parents became members of diverse folk music groups that explored traditional music from the Canary Islands, and they would encourage their daughter to take part in many of their concerts during her teenage years.[4]

Career

Rebeca Nuez Suarez lived in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and trained as a violinist under the guidance of her uncle at the Academia de la Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria while attending middle school and high school at the I.E.S. Pérez Galdos.

At the age of eighteen, Nuez Suarez moved to the Netherlands to continue her education at Codarts University for the Arts, in Rotterdam, with Soviet pedagogue Natasja Morozova, and later on at the Conservatorium Maastricht, where she graduated and obtained her Bachelor Diploma.[3] She continued her studies at the prestigious Royal College of Music in London.

In May 2017, Nuez Suarez received an invitation to perform as a guest artist at the annual Cinémoi charity gala in Cannes, during the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.[5][6]

After this high-profile engagement, she received an invitation to perform under conductor Björn Bus on a special benefit concert to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Dutch cultural organisation Stichting Muziek Jong voor Oud in June 2017. Maestro Björn Bus later invited Rebeca to perform again with him at the traditional annual Christmas concert at Sint Petruskerk in Sittard, in December 2017.

Nuez Suarez has stated her fondness for contemporary classical music, and her interest in collaborating with composers that are currently living and working.[4] In 2018 her recording of the piece “Alone” for violin solo, composed by Spanish composer Laura Vega, got commercial international release on all mainstream digital platforms.[7] Later on, Rebeca's recording of Niccolò Paganini’s violin solo caprice nr. 14 was equally released with worldwide distribution.

In 2018, the international platform Young Classicals, a non-profit cultural platform which promotes young soloists in Europe, offered her a collaboration, recording two videos with performances of works by Eugene Ysaÿe and Maurice Ravel.[8]

In May 2019, Nuez Suarez was awarded a scholarship in La Caixa Banking Foundation Fellowships Programme,[9] to support her postgraduate studies.[10]

In November 2019, Nuez Suarez released the music video "The Furies"[11], featuring her recording of the fourth movement of the Eugene Ysaÿe's Violin Sonata Nr. 2, originally named 'Les Furies'. "The Furies" was the first classical music video by a Spanish artist to be featured in Vevo, the world’s leading music video and entertainment platform.[12] Rebeca Nuez Suarez made history emerging as the first Spanish classical musician to appear in this platform. [13][14]

Film industry

In December 2016, Nuez Suarez was discovered by British film director Brian Skeet, who decided to cast her in a film under development called “The Spanish Version”, giving her the leading role.[15]

At the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival Skeet said of her: “I truly believe the passion she shows for her music will be translated in film. [...] We celebrate new talent and new faces, and I can say I cannot think of anyone I want to celebrate more than this young artist”.[5]

However, after several months of development the screenplay of “The Spanish Version” was put on hold for rewritings. Nuez Suarez walked out of the project, and Skeet eventually dropped the film.

Discography

Singles
Title Details Years
Alone for solo violin [16] 2018
Paganini Caprice nr.4 [17]
  • Format: Digital download
  • Label: Independent
 2019
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gollark: I have made "progress" with my "thing", and it only took... I think several months? I'm very easily distracted and prone to rewriting things when I get annoyed with a language.
gollark: My matrix.org account says "no known servers", and my local homeserver does weirdness and also fails to work.
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References
  1. "El Aula Alfredo Kraus organiza un concierto de violín y piano en el Paraninfo universitario". ULPGC - Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (in Spanish). 2015-10-01. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  2. "La Fundación Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria presenta la 28 Semana Santa Musical Gran Canaria". Canariasnoticias.es (in Spanish). 2017-03-28. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  3. "Concierto de Rebeca Nuez Suarez y Sergio A. Alonso, Conciertos en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – Ocio en La Provincia". Ocio.laprovincia.es. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  4. "Cabildo de Gran Canarias. Area de Cultura (2004) Memoria de Actividades" (PDF). Mdc.ulpgc.es.
  5. "Cinemoi Magazine, 2017 Special Edition" (PDF). Cinemoimedia.com.
  6. Week, Couture Fashion (2017-04-19). "Violinist Rebeca Nuez to Perform at the Global Short Film Awards Gala in Cannes". Couture Fashion Week. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  7. "Rebeca Nuez: de Canarias a Maastricht". Canarias7.es (in Spanish). 2018-12-28. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  8. Classicals, Young. "Violin Sonata no. 2 – Young Classicals". Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  9. ""la Caixa" Banking Foundation SCHOLARSHIPS". Unescochairutad.wordpress.com. June 26, 2018.
  10. "Estudios de posgrado en universidades europeas : Resultados del proceso de selección" (PDF). Obrasociallacaixa.org. Barcelona. 21 May 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  11. Rebeca Nuez Suarez - The Furies, retrieved 2019-12-16
  12. "Vevo". Vevo. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  13. "Rebeca Nuez Suarez, primera española en protagonizar un vídeo de música clásica en Vevo". Melómano Digital - La revista online de música clásica (in Spanish). 2019-12-04. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  14. Canaria, Canarias7 / Las Palmas de Gran (2019-12-05). "La canaria Rebeca Nuez protagoniza el primer vídeo español de música clásica en Vevo". www.canarias7.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  15. "Rebeca Nuez Kills It At Cannes!". Thehollywoodtimes.today. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  16. "Alone for Solo Violin by Rebeca Nuez - DistroKid". Distrokid.com.
  17. "N. Paganini: Caprice No. 14 - Single by Rebeca Nuez Suarez". Music.apple.com.
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