Marina Diaz Penalver Calero

Marina Diaz Penalver Calero was born in 2001 in Manzanares (Ciudad Real), Spain. She began to play the french horn at the age of 7 in her hometown. She began her musical career on Horn at the age of ten  in the Professional Conservatory “Marcos Redondo” of Ciudad Real with professor José Antonio Sánchez-Ballesteros Ruiz, where she graduated with full marks in 2018 at the age of 16. The same year, She had been awarded the Extraordinary Prize of Castilla – La Mancha.
In Spain, she was part of several Wind and Brass Quintets and performed at different festivals. In 2019 she was admitted to study the  Bachelor  Degree in Horn at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg (Germany) with professor Sibylle Mahni. In 2020 she moved to Berlin and she was accepted  at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” to continue her studies with professor Sibylle Mahni. She is currently studying there.
Through the years, she attended several Masterclasses with prestigious horn players such as: Marie-Luise Neunecker,  Sibylle Mahni, Frøydis Ree Wekre , David Cooper, Rodolfo Epelde, Luca Benucci and Manuel Antonio Fernández among others in different Festivals (Madrid, Valencia, Zaragoza in Spain and Georgsmarienhütte in Germany) She has also been able to gain orchestral experience in several orchestras, such as Youth Orchestra of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), Philharmonic Orchestra “La Mancha” (Spain), Ciudad Real Orchestra (Spain), Konzertchor Darmstadt (Germany), Würzburger Orchester (Germany),  Frankfurter kapelle and Kantorei der Schlosskirche Weilburg (Germany) and “Beethoven extended Project”, with three Berlin-based orchestras (TRIKESTRA). In 2020 she was admitted in the “Bayerische Orchesterakademie” to make a  practical training course -PRAKTIKUM- in two orchestras:  Hofer Symphonikern  and  Philharmonischen Orchester Bad Reichenhall.