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Venezuelan violinist, member of the Gulbenkian Orchestra since 1996. Founder and artistic director of Camerata Atlântica, she is also a violin professor at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa. In Portugal, she has developed various musical activities, including dynamic work in the training of young musicians, being the creator and director of the Vasco Barbosa National Strings Competition, an initiative that paid tribute during the lifetime of this great Portuguese violinist, turning the competition into a national musical reference. Since 2013, she has been a tutor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra Internship. She is co-founder of the Orquestra Geração project. Since 2018, she has collaborated closely with the Palácio Fronteira in Lisbon as director of the Young Talents Series and the Fernando Mascarenhas Music Festival. In 2019, she received the Community Relevance Award in the Arts area, awarded by the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon.

In 2022, she was invited to give violin masterclasses at the Academy of Music and Drama of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and in 2023, she was invited to the XIV International Festival of Campina Grande in Brazil, as a violin and orchestra teacher at the Federal University of Campina Grande, and also for a violin and piano recital performance.

She has collaborated with the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música as Associate Concertmaster and with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Ana Beatriz Manzanilla was trained in El Sistema of Youth Orchestras of Venezuela. Her curriculum includes an extensive musical career, having performed in recitals and concerts accompanied by the most important orchestras of her country – such as the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and the Municipal Orchestra of Caracas – in addition to the National Orchestra of Panama, the Munich Youth Orchestra, and the Philharmonie Rhodanienne of France. She has given chamber music performances in Colombia, Argentina, Costa Rica, Spain, Italy, England, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Belgium.

Born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, she studied violin with Prof. José Francisco del Castillo. From 1989 onwards, she studied in Germany and Poland, with Rony Rogoff, and at the European Mozart Academy in Kraków. For several years, she was a member of the Lara Symphony Orchestra (Venezuela) as Associate Concertmaster.