Biography

Celia Ruiz Bermudo was born in Spain in 2005. At the age of seven, she began her musical studies at the Conservatory of Mérida. She finished her professional studies of cello with an honour award in 2018. She entered the Superior Conservatory of Badajoz at the age of 13 and finished this studies with an honour tuition in 2022. She has been studying at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg with Enrico Bronzi since September 2021.

Celia has received masterclasses from Álvaro Campos, Josep Martínez Reinoso, Javier Albarés, Suzana Stefanovic, Lluis Claret, Daniel Grosgurin, Asier Polo, Marc Coppey, Fernando Arias, Ericca Wise, Gary Hoffman, Sebastian Klinger, Amit Peled, Gautier Capuçon, Jerome Pernoo, Pablo Ferrández, Wen Sing Yan, Kian Soltani, Thomas Grossenbacher, Enrico Dindo and David Geringas. For five years, she received regular masterclasses from María de Macedo, and the two following years from Mikolaj Konopelski (associate professor at the Reina Sofía School). She is also a scholarship holder of the Music Academy in Liechtenstein and takes part in the intensive weeks and activities there.

Celia was a winner of the “International Young Promises Cello Competition Jaime Dobato Benavente”, of the “Intercentros Melómano Competition”, the “CelloLeón Competition”, the “Young Musicians of Extremadura Contest”, where she also won the “Special Soloist Award” with the OEX. She was a winner at the “City of Vigo String Competition” and the “Llanes International Cello Competition”, won the special prize as Young Promise in the “International Dotzauer Competition for Young Cellists” when she was 14 years old and was a finalist in the “International Cello Competition Antonio Janigro”. 

Celia has performed at the Mérida Conference Center and at the Carolina Coronado Theater in Almendralejo, performing with the Orchestra of Extremadura. She has performed at the Roman Theater in Mérida with the Young Orchestra of Extremadura, at the Segovia Festival and as a finalist in Zagreb (Croatia).

She participated in the TVE programs Virtuosos and Prodigios. She was selected at the age of 14 for taking the exam in the excellence class of Gautier Capuçon, was awarded a scholarship by Amit Peled for summer studies at the University of Baltimore and a scholarship to take the Youth Classics Courses 2022 and 2023 in Rheinau (Switzerland) in Thomas Grossenbacher's class. She was also selected as an active student to participate in the Pavia Cello Academy 2023/24 with Enrico Dindo, Asier Polo, Jens Peter Maintz and David Geringas.

Celia plays a Patrick Robin cello borrowed from the Musique et Vin Foundation directed by Gautier Capuçon.