About us
The violinist Arabela de Miguel Robledo and the pianist Claudia Fernández Parrondo crossed paths at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel. As a result, they decided to build a space for musical expression where they could transfer their complicity to performance. This is how Ebenum Duo was born, with the aim of giving the audience the opportunity to experience an honest, sincere and personal connection through the essence of the composer.
One of its main interests is to provide the group with a wide stylistic range, from historical interpretation to the adaptation of new techniques through contemporary repertoire. In the same way, as a result of the desire to connect with the public, Ebenum Duo seeks flexibility in its artistic expression to offer new concert formats combining visual arts with philosophy and searching for an own form of artistic expression.
Since its recent formation, they have had the opportunity to participate in several masterclasses with musicians as Heime Müller and Erich Höbarth and to present their work in various circles of concerts and competitions such as “Mimiko” (Basel), “Concurso Internacional de Música de Arnuero” (Spain), “Promenois“ (France) and “Jardí dels Tarongers” (Barcelona).
They are currently continuing their chamber music studies with Anton Kernjak and Anna Gebert, while working regularly with musicians such as Tobias Schabenberger, Raphaël Oleg, Geneviève Strosser and Zoltán Fejérvári.
Arabela de Miguel Robledo
Violin
The Spanish violinist Arabela de Miguel Robledo combines her work in the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla with her postgraduate studies at the FHNW Hochschule für Musik Basel (Switzerland) with Raphael Öleg, Anna Gebert and Anton Kernjak. Also at this institution she studied with Barbara Doll, Winfried Rademacher and Antonio Viñuales.
Specialising in orchestral playing, alongside her postgraduate studies Arabela has held two Orchestral Academy positions with the Kammerorchester Basel and the Basel Sinfonietta, and has been a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra since 2022. She was also leader of the national Spanish youth orchestra “Joven Orquesta Nacional Española” (JONDE), and has collaborated as a professional freelancer with the Orquesta y Coro Nacional de España (OCNE), Lorenza Borrani’s well-known ensemble Spira Mirabilis, the Orquesta y Coro de RTVE, Orquesta de Extremadura, Orquesta de Cadaqués, and the Freixenet Orchestra of the “Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía”.
Arabela began her violin studies at the “Conservatorio Profesional Oreste Camarca” in her native Soria, graduating with honours and winning the Special Prize from the conservatoires of the region of Castilla y León for the best graduate of the year. She then completed her Bachelor degree with Joaquín Torre and Ana Comesaña at the “Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid”, graduating with the highest honours. Arabela has also worked with Anton Kernjak, Heime Müller, Ilya Kaler, Sergio Azzolini, Tobias Feldmann, Gordan Nikolic, Vera Martínez Mehner, Olga Kaler and Aitor Hevia, among others.
Arabela has been generously supported by the Lyra Stiftung, DOMS-Stiftung, Elisabeth Jenny- Stiftung, Hertner-Strasser Stiftung, Stockart-Stiftung für Musik, Vontobel Stiftung, RALTOZ-Stiftung, Rita Zimmermann Musik-Stiftung, C. und A. Kupper-Stiftung and Marguerite Meister Stiftung.
Claudia Fernández Parrondo
Piano
Claudia Fernández Parrondo is a Spanish pianist whose musical career includes concerts in halls such as Zaragoza’s Auditorium, “Palau de la Música” in Valencia, “Fundación Juan March” in Madrid, “Rathauslaube” in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) or “Schloss Wildon” (Austria).
Until now, she won prizes in several piano competitions, she has been invited to participate in Aurora Music Festival 2018 (Stockholm), in the International Festival “Piano Meeting 2019” (Ourense) and in the Festival Arte Classica (Austria). Furthermore, she has complemented her musical education while participating in numerous national and international courses, where she has had the opportunity to receive masterclasses from well-known pianists such as David Kuyken, Nina Tichman, Kennedy Moretti, Christian Pohl, Aleksandar Madzar or Gabriela Montero, among others.
Born in 1997 in Manzanares (Ciudad-Real), Claudia began her music education at the age of 2. In 2015, she graduated with honours in Albacete’s Conservatory and, in addition, she was given the Extraordinary Prize of Artistic Studies of Castilla-La Mancha. Subsequently, she studied a Bachelor’s Degree at “Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón” in Zaragoza, Spain, with professor Miguel Ángel Ortega Chavaldas, finishing in June of 2019 with first class honours and with the best student record of her class. Later she started a Master in piano performance and a Master in Pedagogy at the renowned Hochschule für Musik of Basel, where she finished in 2024 under the tutelage of Tobias Schabenberger and Zoltán Fejérvári.
In the field of chamber music, Claudia has had the opportunity to play in prestigious music halls throughout Spain. Moreover, she has also benefited during her artistic career from playing with a wide variety of chamber music groups, while perfecting her performing skills with musicians such as Cuarteto Quiroga, Marta Gulyas, Sol Gabetta, Anton Kernjak, Anna Gebert or Anthony Marwood.
Nowadays, she does an “Ergänzungsstudium” at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel with professors Anton Kernjak and Zoltán Fejérvári and combines her pedagogical activity with the collaboration with numerous musicians, her main interests being chamber music and Lied.