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Born in Barcelona, she began her piano studies with Esther Heuberger. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) under Jordi Camell, and obtained the official Master’s degree in Lied “Victoria de los Ángeles” at the same institution, where she has also worked as a collaborative pianist. She is currently further specialising in Lied performance with the renowned pianist Pauliina Tukiainen at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg.

In addition, she has studied with Francisco Poyato, Assumpta Mateu and Josep Surinyac, and has taken part in masterclasses with Anne Le Bozec, Susan Manoff, Erika Switzer, Roger Vignoles, Sholto Kynoch, Wolfram Rieger, Simon Lepper, Jan Philip Schulze, Hans Eijsackers, Graham Johnson and Christoph Prégardien, among others.

She has been awarded the Prize for Best Lied Pianist and the Yamaha Special Prize at the 2nd AESPIRE Competition organised by the Spanish Association of Collaborative Pianists. In October 2025 he makes his debut at the Oxford International Song Festival and in 2026 he performs at the SongEasel festival in London and the Bonner Schumannfest. She is a regular collaborator with the women’s choir ACTEA (Conservatori Municipal de Música de Barcelona), with whom she has performed at several venues, including the Palau de la Música Catalana. At national level, she has performed at the Fringe Torroella–L’Estartit Festival (Torroella de Montgrí, Girona), Serenates d’Estiu de Cala Rajada (Capdepera, Mallorca) and Festival Mixtur (Barcelona), as well as in concert series organised by Juventudes Musicales de España, among other engagements.

She has participated in mastercourses at the Oxford International Song Festival and the International Lied Festival Zeist and was selected for the SongEasel 2025 Young Artist Programme. She was a student of the 14th Deutsche Liedakademie at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen, made her debut as a “LIFE New Artist” at the LIFE Victoria Festival in Barcelona, and was awarded a scholarship to take part in Lied the Future, a talent development programme promoted by the Associació Franz Schubert with the support of the Banc Sabadell Foundation and the Ferrer-Salat Foundation.

Alongside her musical training, she graduated with honours in Literary Studies and completed a Master’s degree in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Barcelona.


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