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• 03 Nov, 2021

Alejandra D?az will begin her new job at the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion in March 2022.

D?az was awarded the LSO String Experience Scheme in 2013 and became the first Spanish cellist in history to perform alongside the London Symphony Orchestra  as part of two concerts paying tribute to Claudio Abbado and Pierre Boulez at the Barbican Hall.

Obtaining a Masters of Performance at London's Guildhall School of Music & Dance in 2014 under Prof. Ursula Smith, D?az is a former prize winner of the Carnegie Palmer Award of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, and a finalist of the Pablo Casals International Award.

As a principal cellist, she has appeared with the Orquesta Sinf?nica Vigo 430, the Atlantic Coast Orchestra, the London Metropolitan Sinfonia, and the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra.

Alongside her performing career, D?az holds a Masters in Teaching at the Santiago de Compostela University  where she currently serves as a cello professor. She also taught at the Juan Sebast?an Elcano School from 2018-2020.

D?az plays on a modern cello by Apostol Kaloferov (c.1990) and a Paolo Pamiro bow made in M?laga (c.2019)..