Nelly Guevara

Originally a Honduran/Argentinian violinist, Nelly Guevara received her bachelor’s degree in music at the National Institute of Music in Costa Rica, where she studied with J. Castillo. She also earned her Artist Diploma at the Reina Sofia School of Music in Madrid, where she studied with Rainer Schmidt and Marco Rizzi, and at the International Institute of Chamber Music of Madrid with Prof. Ralf Gothoni.

She was honored as a member of the “Albeniz Quartet” as the Best String Quartet in the Reina Sofía School of Music, receiving the award from Majesty the Queen Sofía of Spain. She also won the “Young Soloists Compe11on” of the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica, winning the first-prize Gold Medal and participating as a soloist.

She has attended several international Music Festivals in America and Europe, such as the Ibero-American Orchestra, Youth Orchestra of the Americas, World Orchestra, and Santander Musical Festival.

She participated in violin master classes with Leon Spierer, Ana Chumachenco, Oleh Krysa, Dylana Jenson, and Mauricio Fuks and chamber music lessons with the Alban Berg String Quartet members and Menahem Pressler.

Guevara has had the privilege of working under the direction of multiple renowned conductors and artists, including Charles Dutoit, Zubin Mehta, V. Ashkenazy, Carl St. Clair, Eiji Oue, Jordi Savall, Zukerman, Midori, Joshua Bell, and Maisky, among others, with orchestras where she held positions as a tutti at the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica and Colombia, 2nd Assistant Concertmaster at Gulbenkian Orchestra in Portugal, and recently, at the Colón Theater with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires in the position of Assistant Principal 2nd Violin.

She graduated with a master’s degree in music performance from CSUN, where she assisted Dr. Lorenz Gamma. She is now a violin faculty member at CSUN.