Carla Sanfelix

Founding member of the historical ensemble L’Apothéose, Carla Sanfelix is winner of twelve national and international awards, including: First Prize at EUBO Development Trust Prize and the Award at the 2019 Friends of York Early Music Festival Competition (United Kingdom). First Prize at the Göttingen Händel Competition 2017 (Germany), Second Prize at the prestigious International Van Wassenaer Competition 2018 within the Festival Oude Muziek in Utrecht (The Netherlands), and Second Prize at the Concours International de Musique Ancienne de Val de Loire 2017 (France), chaired by William Christie.

She is also cello player of the Il Maniatico Ensemble with which she has recorded the entire collection of unreleased sextets by Gaetano Brunetti for oboe and strings.

Sanfelix has been member of the Spanish National Orchestra (ONE) and has collaborated with different ensembles such as Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, Madrid Symphony Orchestra and Bachorchester Mainz. She has a Master of Music in Performance at Trinity College of Music London with Natalia Pavlutskaya and David Kenedy and a Master of Baroque Cello and Historical Performance at Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Kristin von der Goltz.

Picture: Robert Silla