[2] María Dueñas Fernández was born in 2002 in Granada, Spain, in a family in which there are no professional musicians, but who encouraged her musical training, as she attended concerts from an early age.

At the age of 11, she won a scholarship from the Juventudes Musicales de Madrid, allowing her to study at the Carl Maria von Weber College of Music in Dresden.

[4] She won the 1st prize at the 2021 Getting to Carnegie Hall competition, for which each participant performed the world premiere of one movement of Julian Gargiulo’s new sonata for violin and piano.

As a stipendiary of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, María Dueñas plays a Nicolò Gagliano violin (17?4 uncertain date) and the Stradivarius “Camposelice” (1710), on generous loan from the Nippon Music Foundation since 2022.

Since 2019 until 2022 María played the Guarneri del Gesù "Muntz" (1736), also on generous loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.