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Recorder and baroque flute
María Díez-Canedo began her studies in Mexico with Nancy Winkelmann and Gene Gerszo. She graduated from the Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA, in 1986 with an award for "Excellence in Performance." Her teachers were Marilyn Boenau, Catherine Folkers and Christopher Krueger. María was awarded first prize in the "Boston Premier Ensemble 1985 Annual Competition." In 1987 she attended postgraduate studies at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, Holland, with Ricardo Kanji, and studied flute with Marten Root in Amsterdam. She has participated in master classes by Jeannette van Wingerden, Jed Wentz, Marion Verbruggen and Pedro Memelsdorf, among others.
In 1980 and 1981 she toured Europe and the Soviet Union with the ensemble "Tempore". As a member of ensemble "La Fontegara" she has performed extensively throughout Mexico, Central and South America, Spain, Germany and the United States (San Antonio, L.A., North Carolina, Michigan, Boston, Houston); the group has recorded CDs "Tente en el Ayre", "Sonatas Novohispanas I and II", with instrumental 18th century music from Mexican archives and the album "Resonancia I and II".
Ms. Díez-Canedo has performed as a soloist with several orchestras of Mexico and Italian Baroque orchestra "Risonanze". She has been invited to colaborate in concerts with "La Real Camara" and "El Concierto Español", directed by Emilio Moreno, with" la Compañía Musical" dir. by Josep Cabré and the "Old Post Road Musicians" in the Boston area with whom she recorded the CD "Galant with an attitude", with music from Catalonian composers Joan & Josep Pla for Meridian Records (CD of the month in Regensburg, Germany, and 5 stars in BBC Magazine, 2000) .
María Díez-Canedo is a full time professor of recorder and chamber music at the "Escuela Nacional de Música" of the "Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México", from where she was awarded in 1995 the “University Distinction for Young Professors” in arts and culture. She has been invited to teach courses and master classes at Interlochen, University of Miami, Chapell Hill, NC, Hidden Valley workshop, CA., and Amherst Early Music Festival.
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