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Marta Gallego
Jovanović

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Biography

Born in Madrid in 2003 into a family of musicians, Marta Gallego Jovanović has studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music's Violin Chair with Professor Zakhar Bron since 2021.

She has received scholarships from the Consejería de Educación, Universidades y Ciencia de la Comunidad de Madrid and Fundación Albéniz. In the 2021–2022 academic year, Her Majesty Queen Sofía awarded her the Diploma for the Most Outstanding Student of her chair.

She began her violin studies at age seven with Anna Baget at the Adolfo Salazar Conservatory, graduating with the highest qualifications.

Starting in the 2026 academic year, she will begin her Master's studies at The Juilliard School in New York.

Awards & Prizes

First Prize — 3rd Cardinal Cisneros Musical Performance Competition
Third Prize — Forum Musikae International Violin Competition
Finalist Prize — II RC Marbella Musical Competition (now City of Estepona Young Performers Competition)
Villa de Llanes International Violin Competition (2017)
9th City of Vigo String Competition
Adolfo Salazar Conservatory Soloist Competition (2019)
First Prize — 14th César Uceda Leioa Young Performers Award
Reina Sofía School Prize for Best Chamber Music Group with Piano (May 2025)

Festivals

Aurora Music Festival · 2019, 2024
Performed under Jukka-Pekka Saraste with soloist Leonidas Kavakos; masterclasses with Alissa Margulis and Eszter Haffner.
Linus Roth's Ibiza Festival
Chamber music with Jennifer Stumm, Raphaela Gromes, Sophie Pacini and Petrit Ceku.
Accordi Musicali Festival
Masterclasses with Pavel Vernikov.
Salzburg Festival — Mozarteum · 2023
Masterclass participant.
Kronberg Masterclasses — “Good Vibrations”
Masterclass participant.

Masterclasses

Zakhar Bron · Sarah Chang · Tatiana Samuil · Keiko Wataya · Eszter Haffner · Alissa Margulis · Mihaela Martin · Nora Chastain · Miriam Fried · Linus Roth · Shanghai Quartet · Miguel Colom · Ralf Gothóni · Pierre-Laurent Aimard · Radovan Vlatković · Gustavo Núñez · Pascal Moragues · Yulia Iglinova Milstein · Robert Lakatos

Selected Performances

Soloist with orchestras in Spain, Greece, Serbia and Sweden.
Chamber concerts throughout Spain with the Deloitte Mozart Trio, including a performance at the Teatro Real.
2024 — soloist with La Banda Municipal de Madrid; performances at Teatro Monumental de Madrid and Catedral de La Almudena.
January 2025 — soloist with Alma Mahler Orchestra performing Mendelssohn Concerto in E minor.
Reina Sofía School: Freixenet Symphony Orchestra (Juanjo Mena, Péter Csaba, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, David Afkham); Freixenet Chamber Orchestra with Sir András Schiff; Fundación EDP Camerata (Paul Goodwin); Baroque Ensemble; Sinfonietta as concertmaster — with Matthew McDonald as invited guest — under Zsolt Nagy and Johannes Kalitzke.
2021 — School's 30th anniversary tour: Teatro Real (Madrid), Reduta Hall (Bratislava), Liszt Ferenc Academy (Budapest), Musikverein (Vienna).
Carnegie Hall (New York) — performed as part of the orchestra on a previous Reina Sofía School tour.

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