The Spanish cellist Mar Bonet-Silvestre comes from a musical family in Valencia, where she was born in December 1998. She grew up in Madrid and began her musical studies by the age of 4 firstly taught by her mother. As a student of Pilar Navarro, Adolfo Gutierrez and Raúl Pinillos, she completed her preliminary studies in Adolfo Salazar Conservatory in Madrid, being awarded with the Spanish National Price in Musical Studies.

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By the age of 17, she was accepted to Queen Sofía School of Music, where she studied under the tuition of Ivan Monighetti and completed her bachelor studies with Professor Jens Peter Maintz and Fernando Arias by 2020. Moving to Oslo, she then completed her master studies in the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, leaded by Professor Torleif Thedéen and thanks to the scholarship awarded for her by AIE in Spain.

 

Within a broad variety, her willing approach to music making combines her love for classical repertoire with a more meaningful and socially connected aproximation of the performances on stage, creating new performative scenes in collaboration with different artists, ideas and cultures. 

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Mar has performed all around Spain from a very young age, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. Special highlights have recently been her performances of J. Haydn cello concerto nº2 and  L. W. Beethoven Triple Concerto, both in Spain and Norway.

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As a well devoted orchestra musician, she has been an active member of the Spanish National Youth Orchestra and has been invited to join the EUYO Youth Orchestra, as well as the National Orchestra of Spain (ONE). In Oslo, she has collaborated with the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet. 

 

Internationally she was awarded the Third Price in the International Dotzauer Competition in Dresden (2019), and was also awarded several prices in Spanish Competitions such as the second Price in the 2015 Villa de Llanes International Competition or also second Price in Alcañiz 2014 National Competition

 

Mar has been part of many music festivals of the widest scope: from Kronberg (Germany), to Música en los Barrios (Nicaragua) being inspired and collaborating with musicians such as Frans Helmerson, Gary Hoffman, P. Wispelwey , R. Dieltiens , L. Claret, Pablo Ferrández, or Jakob Kóranyi among others.