Candela Gómez Bonet

Candela Gómez Bonet
The Spanish cellist, Candela Gómez Bonet, specializes in historical performance practice.

In her youth, she devoted herself to multiple hobbies besides making music until she realized that music and playing the cello were her very personal way of expressing herself and truly revealing something about herself. Upon completing her studies, Candela was principal cellist of the European Union Baroque Orchestra. She performed great works of the French and Italian Baroque in prominent European concert halls under the direction of the Danish harpsichordist and conductor, Lars Ulrik Mortensen. In 2020, Gómez founded the Gara Quartet with the aim of devoting the quartet to historical performance practice with “freshness and passion." Today, Gómez is a cellist with Les Concert des Nations under Jordi Savall, as well as tutti cellist with Concerto Köln, where she has recorded everything from Vivaldi to Wagner.
Candela searches for the grammar and language of the composer, the colors and affects of the music, until she understands what the composer wants to say with the music. Empathy is therefore her secret, both in her engagement with the works and in rehearsals with her colleagues. In the end, it is important to her that “all musicians involved in the project leave the rehearsal happy.”