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A fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation allowed her to study with David Levine at the Robert Schumann Institut in Düsseldorf and chamber music with the Amadeus Quartet at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, where the jury unanimously awarded her summa cum laude for virtuosity. She has received master classes from Jeanne Marie Darré, Aldo Ciccolini, Vitali Margulis, Alexei Nassedkin and Paul Badura Skoda.
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Among the many awards and prizes she has received are the Graduation Prize of the Valencia Conservatory, the Unión Musical Española prize, the Fundación García Rogel prize and the Premio Extraordinario a la Investigación de Tesis Doctorales awarded by the Instituto de Estudios Alicantinos Juan Gil-Albert. In 1986 she was selected among the best students in Germany by the Richard Wagner Society and she obtained a grant to attend the Bayreuth Festivals.
She has made several recordings for RNE, Spanish National Radio, and for television, as well as several CDs, two monographs on the chamber and vocal music of the composer Luis Blanes, another published in Germany with the clarinet sonatas of Johannes Brahms, the whole of F. Poulenc’s works for wind instruments and piano and all the piano works of Amando Blanquer. Special mention must be made of the piano works of Enrique Granados. She is currently preparing two new recordings: one of violin and piano of Spanish composers of the XX century and another of Romantic music for piano.
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She has performed as soloist with the Symphonic Orchestras of Alicante, Elche, Alcoy and Valencia and with the Symphonic Band of Madrid under the direction, among others, of Cristóbal Soler and Enrique García Asensio. She participated in the opening concert of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía under the direction of Lorin Maazel.
She collaborates regularly with great soloists, such as Philippa David (flute), Steffan Capezzali (oboe), Emmanuel Abbühl (oboe), Vartan Manouckian (violin), Martín y Soler Quartet, Cuesta Quintet and she forms a duet with the soprano María José Martos and with the violinist Anabel G. del Castillo. She is a founding member of the Iberia Trio.
She has performed premieres of composers such as Luis Blanes, Amando Blanquer, Ramón Ramos and César Cano, some of them dedicated to her. Specialised criticism recognises her as “a virtuoso of exceptional eloquence” and has praised her enormous versatility and warm personality.
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Currently she combines her career as a piano concertist with her post as permanent professor of piano in the Conservatorio Superior de Música in Valencia, where she has been teaching piano since 1991.
She holds a Doctorate in Music from the Audiovisual, Documentation and Art History Department of the Arts Faculty in the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, which has published her book La obra pianística de Amando Blanquer (The complete piano compositions of Amando Blanquer).
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