Viola and Piano Duo

Enol Ensemble

CRISTINA GESTIDO (VIOLA)

Orchestral Experience:

  • Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO)
  • Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment (OAE)
  • Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra
  • Scottish Chamber Orchestra
  • Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, London
  • London Chamber Orchestra
  • BANDART (Gordan Nikolitch)
  • National Orchestra of Spain (ONE)
  • Symphony Orchestra of the Principality of Asturias (OSPA)
  • Bilbao Symphony Orchestra (BOS)
  • Liceo Opera, Barcelona
  • Opera Kiez (Berlin)
  • Oviedo Philharmonic
  • Royal Philharmonic of Galicia
  • Granada City Orchestra
  • Arts Symphonic Orchestra London (main)
  • Classic Canary Islands Camerata (main)
  • Cadaques Orchestra

Viola solo recitals:

  • Juan March Foundation (Madrid)
  • Martin-in-the-Fields (London)
  • St James' Piccadilly (London)
  • Association of Friends of the Santander Music Festival
  • León Spanish Music Festival
  • Toro Music Festival Jose Luis López Cobos
  • Niemeyer Center (Aviles)
  • Summer Music Series (Oviedo)
  • Oviedo Philharmonic Society
  • Philharmonic Society of Gijón (Jovellanos Theatre)
  • Princess of Asturias Awards (Oviedo, Gijón, Mieres)
  • Music Cycle of the Monastery of Valdediós (Asturias)
  • Philharmonic Theater (Oviedo, Spain)
  • Evaristo Valle Museum (Gijón)
  • Teodoro Cuesta de Mieres Theater (Asturias)
  • Barrié de la Maza Foundation (Galicia)
  • “Music in the Río del Oro” Festival (León)
  • Auditorium "Principe Felipe" (Oviedo) (Season 2003 and 2020)
  • Basilica of Cangas del Narcea (Asturias)
  • Toreno Theater in Cangas del Narcea (Asturias)
  • Victoria and Albert Museum (London)
  • Bolivar Hall (London)
  • Giles in the Fields (London)
  • Landsowne Club (London)
  • Mary Abbots Church (London)
  • Lincoln's Inn Chapel (London)
  • Regents Hall (London)
  • Hyde Park Chapel (London)
  • St Stephen's Church (London)
  • Solsona Theater (Catalonia)

Teaching:

  • Viola teacher at BISYOC, International Yourth Orchestra Exchange: Norway (2015), UK (2016), UK (2016), Macedonia (2019), Germany (2021)
  • Viola teacher in the National Music Course, Soto del Barco (Asturias)
  • Canada Blanch Institute of London

Enol Ensemble:

The ENOL ENSEMBLE is made up of musicians
whose interest is to investigate the music of
camera exploring various formations,
styles and times with the intention of making
reach the public a wide repertoire that does not
always easy to hear in conference rooms
concert. With the piano quartet as
central axis of the ensemble, the Enol Ensemble
it has appeared in formats from duo to sextet, always depending on the requirements of the repertoire or the place where they perform.

The project was presented at the end of 2017 at the "Evaristo Valle" Museum in Gijón. In February 2018, the Enol Ensemble made its debut at the Oviedo Philharmonic Society with the piano quartets by Brahms and Schumann, obtaining great public and critical success. In May of that same year they performed a concert in the Temple of Debod in Madrid with the Goldberg Variations by Bach in version for string trio, before an audience of almost a thousand people. This program was also represented in Gijón, Sintra (Portugal) and at the Niemeyer Center in Avilés. They closed their first season at the Fundación Vital de Vitoria. In their second season they have performed at the Oviedo Summer Festival, the León Spanish Music Festival, the Jovellanos Theater (Gijón Philharmonic Society), the Monforte de Lemos Philharmonic Society and the Oviedo Philharmonic Theater. In 2020 they offered three concerts within the cultural program of the Princess of Asturias Awards, which later led them to perform exclusively for the Spanish Royal Family, as well as paying tribute to Ennio Morricone within the 2020 Awards Ceremony. The peak moment within that season was the live musicalization of the film "La Carreta Fantasma" (Victor Sjöström, 1921) within the SACO film festival, which was praised by the public and critics. Last year they made a singular bet at CIMCO, Oviedo Interdisciplinary Chamber Music Cycle with a “Schubertiada”, where they invited the public to Schubert's own house, with a characterized actor.

“The resource catalog deployed was a hat off. And so did the respectable, with a prolonged ovation that earned a tip” (LN Spain, 30-X-2019)