Born in San Jose, Costa Rica. She began her violin studies at the School of Musical Arts of the University of Costa Rica with professors Tetsuo Yagi and Guido Calvo .
She continued her higher violin studies with Prof. Joachim Schall in Stuttgart and with Prof. Bernhard Tluck at the Hochschule für Musik Nürenberg-Augsburg, where she obtained the Higher Diploma in Violin (KA Diplom). She also furthered her studies at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin-Ireland with the violinist Eyal Kless.
She has taken various advanced courses, including the "Summer Academy" of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the XLVII International University Course "Music in Compostela" and the Tournon Academy (France) with professors Yair Kless, Agustín León Ara and Jan Dobrzelewski. In the field of chamber music, she has received classes from the members of the Endellion Quartet, as well as Michi Gaigg, Julius Berger, Enrique Santiago, John Gilbert and Markus Wolf.
Her activity as a soloist has led her to play in venues in Germany, Costa Rica, Spain, the United States, France, Morocco and Mexico in the venues: Gasteig “Blackbox” (Munich), Kongresshalle in Augsburg , Guerry Auditorium (Tennessee), Winterthur Auditorium (Barcelona), Palma Auditorium, Auditorio Nacional de Costa Rica, National Theater of Costa Rica and Room 107 of the University of Costa Rica, where her recital with the Costa Rican pianist and composer Pilar Aguilar was broadcast on Radio Nacional Clásica.
With the same pianist in the year 2007 she performed a series of five concerts and also performing music by Costa Rican composers. Three of the concerts were held in Palma de Mallorca sponsored by the General Command of the Balearic Islands and in the Auditorium of the Superior Conservatory of the Balearic Islands. The fourth concert took place in Paris at the Saison Musicale 2007-2008 du Musée de L'Armée in the Grand Salom of L'Hôtel National des Invalides. Lastly, they were invited to play at the “Sabadell Music Festival”.
She has participated in various music festivals among which stand out: the "Hot Springs Music Festival" in Arkansas (USA), ''Deutsches Mozartfest'' in Augsburg (Germany), Festival "Costa Rica" in Mexico DF., ''Sewanee Summer Music Center and Festival'' in Tennessee (USA), XXII Spanish Cultural Week in Tetouan (Morocco), “A Winter in Mallorca” and the Tarragona International Music Festival.
She has been concertmaster of the Orchestra of the Superior Conservatory of the Balearic Islands and of the Orchestra of the WYD 2011 held in Madrid. She collaborates with orchestras such as the JC Arriaga Youth Orchestra, the Jugend Münchener Philharmonie; Academic Orchestra of Madrid, National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica, and the Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands.
In 2006, she won the contest to play soloist with the Orchestra of the Superior Conservatory of Palma de Mallorca. En el Curso Internacional de Música Española : "Música en Compostela" awarded her twice the "Andrés Segovia-José Miguel Ruíz Morales" award, in the summer of 2007 in the specialty of violin and in 2009 in the specialty of chamber music.
In 2007, she obtained the score and passed the tests for the selection of Violin Teacher at the Municipal Music School of the Andraxt City Council, where she works as a teacher in the 2007/2008 school year.
Since 2008, she has lived in Madrid and has been dedicated to pedagogy at the Municipal School of Music and Dance of Villanueva del Pardillo. In July 2011 she finished her Master's studies in Research and Musical Creation at the King Juan Carlos University of Madrid.
As a duet of Pilar Aguilar and Grace Marín
Since 2005 she began a duet with her own mother, Pilar Aguilar, pianist and composer. They have been invited on several occasions to perform concerts in various countries. Her repertoire includes all the classics, but her favorites are Spanish and Costa Rican composers.
In 2007 it was performed in Paris, in "Les Invalides" (golden room) in a concert organized by the Embassy of Costa Rica. The repertoire contained a wide variety where only the music of Costa Rica represents half of the Works. Then I interpret twice in Palma de Mallorca-Spain. One of the concerts was a private concert in a castle for all the generals of the Army of the Balearic Islands. Then it was held in Barcelona at the theater of "La Academia de Bellas Artes", in Sabadell-Barcelona. In 2006 they were invited by the Embassy of Costa Rica in Mexico to carry out a concert in Mexico City for the diplomatic corps and residents of Costa Rica. For this event only Aguilar's compositions were performed for solo piano and for violin and piano. In 2005 Pilar Aguilar was invited to Palma de Mallorca-Spain as a composer and performer to give two concerts of her chamber music compositions. For these concerts there was the collaboration of Spanish artists (flute, viola and cello) and the participation of the violinist Grace Marín Aguilar. In the years 2004-2005-2007-2009: Gracia Marín performed in Costa Rica with Pilar Aguilar in several places with a very varied repertoire (always including Aguilar's works): National Theater (the main and most important theater in Costa Rica ), the National Auditorium, etc.
Grace Marin Aguilar
E-mail:brahms1956@gmail.com