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​Mar Bonet Silvestre is a Spanish cellist coming froma musical family of Valencia, where she was born in December 1998. She grew up in Madrid, where she started her musical education by the age of 4, taught by her mother. She was then a student of Pilar Navarro, Adolfo Gutierrez and Raúl Pinillos, and completed her preliminary studies in Adolfo Salazar Conservatory in Madrid, being awarded with the Spanish National Price in Musical Studies. She was accepted to Queen Sofía School of Music by the age of 17, 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. She later broadened her studies in Historically Informed Practices in the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA)with baroque cello, joining first the class led by Professor Viola den Hoog in 2022 and continuing her studies with Albert Brüggen and Victor García.

Mar has performed all around Spain from a very young age, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. Already by the age of 9 she was invited to Aragon Music Hochschule to perform Allegro Appasionato by C. Saint-Saens, and later on performed as a soloist L. Bocherinni G Major Cello Concerto in in 2015, and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, bothi n the Spanish National Auditorium and in the Norwegian Academy of Music. She also performed P.I.Tchaikovsky Pezzo Capriciosowith JOSV in the summer of 2019, and J.Haydn cello concerto nº2 also in Spain and Norway.

Internationally she has been awarded several prices in Competitions such as the second Price in Alcañiz 2014 National Competition, as well as the second Price in the 2015 Villa de Llanes International Competition. More recently she was awarded the Third Price in the International Dotzauer Competition in Dresden (2019). Mar has taken part of many music festivalsof the widest scope: from Kronberg (Germany) to Música en los Barrios (Nicaragua) being inspired and collaborating with musicians such as P.Wispelwey ,R.Dieltiens, L.Claret, Pablo Ferrández, Gary Hoffman, Jakob Kóranyi, Frans Helmerson or Bruno Cocset among others.

Moreover, she was a member of the Spanish National Youth Orchestra. and was invited to take part of EUYO Youth Orchestra, as well as the National Orchestra of Spain (ONE).In Norway she has been part of Ungdom Symphonikerne and the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet. During the season 2022-2023 she joined the Rotterdam Philarmonisch Orkest as an academist, and became a member of the Mahler Chamber Academy for the season 2022-2024. As a baroque cello player, she also became a member of the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO) in the summer of 2023, as well as an additional member of Theresia Orchestra. In the summer of 2024 she also took part of the Bach Academy in Modena, and was invited to play as a guest with the Orchestraof the Eighteen Century in their summer tour.

From 2024 she is a member of Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, as a tutti cellist. As a well devoted chamber musician, Mar combines her orchestra activity with the present floruishement of NOIES String Quartet, together with her passion for Early Music, with a special focus on improvisation with the interdisciplinary group JUGLAR.

 

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