ANABEL MONTESINOS

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ANABEL MONTESINOS

Anabel Montesinos was born in Reus, Tarragona, in 1984. She started her musical education in the Escuela Municipal de L'Hospitalet de L'Infant in Tarragona at the age of six and was awarded a distinction for her elementary grade in 1996. From the age of ten she studied with Vania del Monaco, and in 1997 she began her intermediate level studies in the Conservatorio Superior de Música of Tarragona, completing these in 2001. She is currently studying in the Conservatorio Superior de Música Oscar Espla in Alicante, in the class of Ignacio Rodes. Her first solo concert took place in Mallorca when she was just twelve years old. She also took master-classes with Manuel Barrueco and David Russell. She has given recitals in Spain, Poland and Italy and has participated as a guest in numerous important festivals, including the Fourth International Meeting of Classical Music in Jaén, the Ninth Gitarowy Festival in Lublin, as guest soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Lublin, and the Thirteenth Guitar Festival in Barcelona. She has won various prizes, among them third prize in the 1999 Sixth International Guitar Contest Maria Luisa Anido in Italy, and first prizes in the Ninth Castellón Francisco Tárrega Competition, and in 2000 in the Krynica International Contest in Poland, the Fourth Sevilla America Martinez National Contest, the First Almeria Julian Arcas International Contest, and in the Fourth International Guitar Festival, category Moyen, in France. In 2001 she won first prizes in the Jaén First International Competition El Condado, the Lérida Second Instrumental Competition Sant Anastasi, and in 2002 the first prize, audience prize and special prize for the best performance of works by Francisco Tárrega at the 36th Francisco Tárrega International Guitar Competition at Benicásim. Her achievements have won enthusiastic acclaim from critics and audiences.

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