María del Carmen Fuentes Gimeno

She completed her higher education at the “Joaquín Rodrigo” Higher Conservatory of Music in her hometown, Valencia. She later studied with Juana Guillem, Benoît Fromanger and Marcos Fregnani. She attended masterclasses with P.I. Artaud, P.L. Graf, Vicens Prats, P. Lloyd, R. Ghiani and S. Martínez as well as baroque traverso courses with W. Hazelzet and P. Thalheimer. She obtained a Master in Early Music specializing in Baroque Traverso and a second Master in Instrumental Pedagogy at the Hochschule für Musik in Nürnberg with distinction. Since 2002 she is professor at the Music Conservatorium of the Generalitat Valenciana. She has given musical pedagogy seminars, organized by the Goethe Institut, in La Paz (Bolivia) and in Lima (Peru).

She was a member of the Valencian Community Youth Orchestra and the München Concert Orchestra in Munich, as well as various chamber groups. She participated in chamber music festivals in Nuremberg, Erlangen, Banz... as well as in concerts with members of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. She has recorded several CDs with Marcos Fregnani and Susanne Hartwich-Düfel. She regularly participated in concerts with the early music group Musica Trobada from Valencia.

She is currently completing her Doctorate in Music (Performance) studies at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, under the direction of Luca Chiantore, with the objective alternative flutes to Böhm’s system from the late 19th century until XIX and early XX in Germany. As a researcher at INeT, a research institute associated with the University of Aveiro, she has participated in the Hands on Flute Artistic Research Congresses of Aveiro (2017, 2018), in the II Congrès Doctoral de musique et musicologie of the Université de La Sorbonne, Paris (2019), at the IX Instrumenta Conference in Madrid (2020), in various editions of the Pyrenees Artistic Research Conference (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) and at the ESMAR Artistic Research Conference (2021). In the Escuela Superior de Música de alto Rendimiento (ESMAR) she taught seminars on “Thematic Projects” within the module of musical, artistic and musicological research models. Together with Marcos Fregnani, she has conducted a series of seminars on “The importance of organology and the development of the instrument in interpretation and artistic practice” for ABRAF (Brazilian Association of Flutists); she has participated as a speaker at the VI Flute Convention of the Association of Flutists of Spain in May 2023 in Malaga with the topic Schwedler flutes, the last stronghold of the Old System Flutes in Germany.