Sara Ferrández

Sara Ferrández was born into a family of musicians in Madrid in 1995, and began playing the viola at the age of three. She was admitted to Madrid’s Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía when she was 13 years old. After completing her studies there, she was granted a Juventudes Musicales scholarship to study abroad and also received a Hezekiah Wardwell Scholarship sponsored by the Humboldt Foundation. She subsequently continued her studies in Berlin with Tabea Zimmermann at the Hanns Eisler School of Music.

Aged just seven years, Ferrández began performing in Spain’s most renowned concert halls, including the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, the Auditorio Príncipe Felipe in Oviedo and L'Auditori in Barcelona. Since then, she has developed her international career with concerts in venues such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie, Victoria Hall in Geneva and Salzburg’s Grosses Festspielhaus. In 2013 she was a soloist with the Sony Orchestra directed by Frans Helmerson, and 2014 saw her return for a performance at Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional de Música.

A passionate chamber musician, Ferrández is often invited to play at prestigious festivals, such as the Verbier Festival, Festival Musika-Música, the Zagreb Chamber Music Festival and the Rolandseck Festival. She has also been a guest of Anne-Sophie Mutter in her ensemble “MutterVirtuosi”. 2023 saw the release of Sara’s first EP: “En La Intimidad”, where she explores one of Bach’s greatest works, the Suite No.1 in G major. 

Sara Ferrández is a member of the West Eastern Divan Orchestra directed by Maestro Daniel Barenboim and, from 2019 to 2022 has been a member of the Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker. 

Sara plays on a David Tecchler viola (1730) and a bow from Nicolas Léonard Tourte - both generously loaned by Stephan Jansen on behalf and as a member of the Stretton Society. From 2021 to 2023, she has studied at Kronberg Academy with Nobuko Imai. Her studies were funded by the Dorothea Neuhaus patronage.