Miguel Pérez-Espejo Cárdenas

Education and Training
DMA, Violin Performance, Boston University; AD, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, UK; MM, Violin Performance, New England Conservatory; BM, Violin Performance, New England Conservatory; Profesor Superior de Violín, Conservatorio Superior de Música, Murcia, Spain
Awards and Recognition
Fulbright Scholar
Theodore Presser Award
Paul Harris Award, The Rotary Club
Olga Koussevitzky International Competition
New England Conservatory’s Chadwick Medal
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Division: Expanded Education
Department: Strings; Chamber Music
Instrument: Violin
Miguel Pérez-Espejo Cárdenas is recognized as “an extraordinary violinist with an outstanding ability to interpret from the heart” (Aaron Rosand), “a very strong leader, a magnificent soloist, with a beautiful tone, impeccable intonation and rhythm, wonderful musicianship and artistic sensibility” (Stanislaw Skrowaczewski), whose performances have been praised as “extremely impressive... of exceptional expressive depth” (Geoffrey Norris, Chief Music Critic, The Daily Telegraph, UK).
Dr. Pérez-Espejo concertizes throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia, and has released solo CDs for RTVE MÚSICA, including the first Spanish recording of the Elgar Violin Concerto. He has performed with distinguished artists such as Lluís Claret, Roberto Díaz, James Dunham, James Buswell, Laurence Lesser, Colin Carr, and principal players and members of the Boston Symphony and Cleveland orchestras. Together with his wife, violinist Hsin-Lin Tsai, he is a member of the acclaimed L’Étoile Violin Duo and Co-Artistic Director of the multi-disciplinary The Renewal Series. Recent and upcoming engagements include residencies and master classes in the US and abroad, collaborations with composers Augusta Read Thomas, Chihchun Chi-Sun Lee, John MacDonald and Kareem Roustom, whose work “Reflections & Refractions” was written for and premiered by L’Étoile Violin Duo. His commitment to the music of our time is exemplified by world premieres of works by MacDonald, Roustom, José Zárate, and Miguel Franco, whose Sinfonía Concertante, Op. 87 was written for and premiéred by Dr. Pérez Espejo. In addition to his solo and chamber music activity, he performs with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, working with the great conductors of our time, including Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Gustavo Dudamel and Andris Nelsons.
A Fulbright Scholar, member of the Honor Music Society of the United States and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Spain, winner at The Olga Koussevitzky International Competition, Dr. Pérez-Espejo is also the recipient of the Rotary Club’s Paul Harris Award, the Theodore Presser Award, and the New England Conservatory’s Chadwick Medal, among other honors. A pupil of the legendary Aaron Rosand, his teachers include Michèle Auclair, Eric Rosenblith, and Pina Carmirelli, founding leader of I Musici.
Dr. Pérez-Espejo’s doctoral dissertation, Pablo Sarasate: The Violinist, is the first in depth violinistic study of the Spanish virtuoso’s playing and his dimension in the history of violin playing. As a pedagogue, he is on faculty at the New England Conservatory Expanded Education in both Violin and Chamber Music, and is affiliated faculty at Tufts and Harvard universities. He has been guest artist in residencies and master classes in the US and abroad, most recently Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan. His students have won numerous competitions, perform as soloists in the U.S. and abroad, and have gone on to study at institutions such as the Cleveland Institute of Music and Princeton University.
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Curriculum Vitae
DMA, Violin Performance, Boston University; AD, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, UK; MM, Violin Performance, New England Conservatory; BM, Violin Performance, New England Conservatory; Profesor Superior de Violín, Conservatorio Superior de Música, Murcia, Spain
- Fulbright Scholar
- Theodore Presser Award
- Paul Harris Award, The Rotary Club
- Olga Koussevitzky International Competition
- New England Conservatory’s Chadwick Medal