Marina Hermida Rodriguez

Marina Hermida Rodríguez (1999, Pontevedra, Spain) began her violin studies with Sergio Heredia and later with Mykolas Pocius at the "Manuel Quiroga" Conservatory of Music in Pontevedra. There, she also studied viola da gamba with Arquímedes Artal. She was a member of the ONSG (Galician Children's Symphony Orchestra) and the OJSG (Galician Youth Symphony Orchestra). Since 2015, she has occasionally performed with the OSG (Galician Symphony Orchestra).

As a multiple prizewinner of the Cidade de Vigo competition, she received masterclasses in violin from teachers such as Yuko Iwatani, Chisako Okamoto, Hitomi Aihara, Makio Ueda (Japan), Petru Munteanu (Leopold Mozart Center, Augsburg), Carolin Ohnimus (HfMT Hamburg), Cibrán Sierra, and Savva Fatkulin (Spain), as well as masterclasses in viola da gamba from Vittorio Ghielmi (Mozarteum University, Salzburg).

As a soloist, she recorded the violin concerto In The Old Style by Manuel Quiroga with the "Orquestra Filharmónica Cidade de Pontevedra" for the commemorative CD "150 Years Conservatory of Pontevedra." She performed the first movement of Beethoven’s D major concerto and Bach’s Double Violin Concerto at the Euskalduna Palace during the International Musika-Música Festival (Bilbao) and at the Opera Palace (A Coruña) with students from the UDK Berlin and her conservatory.

In 2015, she completed her intermediate violin studies and won the "End of Degree Prize." In 2016, she received the "Extraordinary Prize for Professional Artistic Education" and the "National Prize for Academic Achievement in Professional Artistic Education." In 2017, she completed her viola da gamba studies with the "End of Degree Prize" and also received the "Extraordinary Prize for Professional Artistic Education." Marina Hermida Rodríguez completed her Bachelor's degree with Ariadne Daskalakis at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Sophia Jaffé.Before becoming a permanent member of the ensemble, she completed her Master's degree at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Sophia Jaffé and was also a member of the Academy of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne.