MARIA
CARRASCO

Maria Carrasco Gil began her musical education at the age of 8 in Tarazona, her hometown. She finished the Bachelor of Music Performance at the Conservatorio Superior de Música in Aragón with Juan Luis Gallego in 2012, followed by a Master in Pedagogy at the University of Zaragoza. She was introduced to the Early Music performing by the violin teacher Elsa Ferrer in Madrid, who motivated her to continue with the Studies abroad. Since 2015 she lives in Bremen, where she studied baroque violin with Veronika Skuplik at the University of Arts in Bremen, Germany.
Between 2019 and 2021 she won several prizes with her two chamber music ensembles. With Marsyas Baroque they received an Scholarship from the German Music Council in 2019 and 2020 as well as winning the special prize of the Ensemble-Akademie Freiburg, and the first prize at the XX.Biagio Marini Competition. Together with I Zefirelli, they won the special prize at the International Biber Competition 2019, the Bärenreiter Prize at the Händel Competition 2021 and since 2022 they are part of the European artistic programme EEEmerging+.
She attended masterclasses with Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Haim Taub, Nicolas Chumachenko, Tabea Zimmermann, as well as Vera Martínez Mehner (Cuarteto Casals) and Aitor Hevia (Cuarteto Quiroga). Her interest in the early music led her to the Jeune Orchester de l'Abbey in France and to participate in several master classes with Hiro Kurosaki, François Fernandez, Enrico Onofri, Shunske Sato and Philippe Herreweghe.
She has performed with Orchestras as well as with Chamber Music Ensembles at international festivals in Italy, Scotland, France and Austria and in Concert Halls such as the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, the Berliner Philharmonie, die Glocke in Bremen... Nowadays she performs Urgent Music, the Ensemble Weser-Renaissance, Oltremontano, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Capella de la Torre, La Dolcezza, Bremer Barockorchester et al.
Awards
2019
Deutsche Musik Wettbewerb - Ensemble Marsyas Baroque
2019
Special Prize West Deutschland Radio, International Biber Competition
- Ensemble I Zefirelli
2019
XX. Biagio Marini Competition, First Prize - Ensemble Marsyas Baroque
2021
Bärenreiter Preis: Göttingen händel competition - Ensemble I Zefirelli
2021
EEEMERGING+ Rising Ensemble - Ensemble I Zefirelli
Recordings
Classic
2022
2021
2021
2018
2018
2018
2017
2016
Weihnachts Lieder - Bremer Barock Consort, Manfred Cordes.
Folk
2013
8cho Puntas - Juanjo Almarza, Susana Gil