Anabel Montesinos, born in 1984 in L’Hospitalet de l’Infant near Tarragona, Catalonia, is a Spanish classical guitarist. She trained at the conservatories of Tarragona and Alicante before pursuing advanced studies in Austria at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in Linz. She won the Castellón Francisco Tárrega competition in 1999 and the Krynica International Competition in Poland in 2000, then at seventeen became one of the youngest laureates of the Francisco Tárrega International Guitar Competition in 2002.

Montesinos has won more than ten first prizes at international competitions, including the Michele Pittaluga International Classical Guitar Competition, and has performed with orchestras including the Turin Philharmonic, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, and the Moscow Philharmonic. She made her recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 2011 and has released several albums on Naxos Records, drawing praise from Gramophone for the maturity of her interpretations. Since the 2024/25 academic year she has taught guitar at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabel_Montesinos