About
Valentina Villaseñor is a historical keyboards player with a love for clavichords.
A grantee holder of the German Clavichord Society on 2019 and 2020, she has appeared several times in Germany at the Clavichordtage of the DCS, at the Kunstfest Weimar, in the Netherlands invited by the Dutch Clavichord Society, as well as in Denmark at the Copenhagen Clavichord Festival.
Her playing has been described as “brilliant” (Clavichord International) as well as "straightforward and resolute, at the same time delicate and sensitive" (Newsletter of the German Clavichord Society 2022).
"[...] a unique experience of musical contrasts through four centuries, in which Valentina Villaseñor proved that the clavichord can hold its own in today's musical life and set its very own character." (Wolfenbüttler Schaufenster)
As a harpsichordist she has played both solo and continuo in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland, France and Chile, and has worked with praised artists such as Midori Seiler, Terry Wey, Wolfgang Katschner, Mark Milhofer, and Edward Ananian-Cooper.
After studying composition and piano in Santiago de Chile, Valentina Villaseñor moved to Europe to study harpsichord, basso continuo and improvisation at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague with Jacques Ogg and Patrick Ayrton as well as harpsichord and clavichord with Bernhard Klapprott at the University of Music “Franz Liszt” in Weimar. She lives currently in Berlin.
Photo by Thomas Müller.