Lorena Cantó is a Spanish and Belgian viola player based in London. After several years in the award-winning Jubilee String Quartet, she continues her solo, chamber and orchestral career as a member of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and Duo Fabulae. Lorena is also a regular guest artist at the Welsh National Opera, United Strings of Europe, La Nuova Musica and Felix Ensemble.
She frequently appears on Radio Clásica, BBC 3, Classic FM, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and as part of the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. Her notable recordings include her two CDs with the Jubilee String Quartet, highly rated by The Strad and BBC Music, as well as “Through the Night” and “Hommages” with the United Strings of Europe.
Lorena began her viola studies at the age of five, under the tutelage of her parents. At 16, she entered the Yehudi Menuhin School in London and made her debut with York Bowen viola’s concerto, accompanied by the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra. After completing her studies, she performed George Benjamin’s Viola Viola at the Wigmore Hall and the Berlin Konzerthaus. Lorena continued her studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, graduating with special distinction in 2020.
Since then, Lorena has shared stage with renowned artists such as Martha Argerich, Máxim Vengerov, Fazil Say and Sheku Kanneh-Mason; and conductors such as Simon Rattle, François Xavier-Roth and Christoph Eschenbach. Lorena plays chamber music with soloists from the London Mozart Players, Orquesta de Valencia, the Bremen Philharmonic and the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, among others.
