Sara Ruiz Martinez

Sara Ruiz studied viola da gamba with Itziar Atutxa and Pere Ros in Madrid and later with Ventura Rico in Seville, where she graduated in 2005. She continued her studies with Lorenz Duftschmid in Trossingen (Germany) and with Vittorio Ghielmi in Lugano (Switzerland). She also studied chamber music with Rolf Lislevand and attended courses and seminars with Jordi Savall and Philippe Pierlot. She has given concerts as soloist and with chamber groups as Armonico Tributo Austria, la Cetra Basel Baroque Orquestra, La Grande Chapelle, Al Ayre Español...in Europe and Latin America and has made musical recordings for Harmonia Mundi, Classic Concert Records, Verso and Brilliant Classics.
In 2006 she won third prize as well as the special prize for the best interpretation of music by K. F. Abel at the viola da gamba international competition “Bach-Abel” in Köthen, Germany. Her first cd s solist, “La voix de la viole” whit music from Marin Marais has received some distintions as the “5 de diapason” She plays an anonymus instrument from the austrian school of luthery from the latest seventheenth century.