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Maria Alba Sala i Pelfort was born in Manresa, Barcelona, and everything indicated that she would undertake law studies, but being already a student at the University, even getting excellent marks, at the last moment she decided to follow the call of music... after obtaining the higher degree as Senior Piano Professor and as Senior Professor of Solfeggio, Music Theory, Transposition and Accompaniment at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu de Barcelona, Maria Alba moves to Paris to work the piano with Eugen Indjic at the Schola Cantorum. There she also receives piano lessons by Marina Primachenko and attends the classes of Musical Analysis by Narcís Bonet. At the same time she enrols at the École Normale de Musique, where she studies with Nina Patarcec and obtains the Diplôme Superieur de Musique de Chambre.
This occurs in parallel with her attendance to seminars and courses of piano, chamber music, computer music and pedagogy for professors of music schools and conservatories: in Barcelona with Violeta Hemsy de Gainza; in Piešt’any, Slovakia, with Eugen Indjic and Marián Lapšanský and in The North London Piano School, where she had Michael Schreider as professor. In this course Maria Alba is selected for the master class, which provides John Lill at the Royal Academy of Music. Lill expressly congratulates her for her elegant interpretation in the gala concert at Duke's Hall of the Royal Academy of Music and Dance. The performers at this concert recorded in the Malda Vale 1-Studio I of the BBC. Following these concert and master class Maria Alba has the opportunity to work with John Lill for a while. She also travels to Germany where she attends a piano master course in the Weimars Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt with guest professor Paul Badura-Skoda.
When she decides to dedicate to music professionally, she gets in front of the public in solo concerts in Catalonia and France. It should be noted the different performances with the Orquestra Simfònica de Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, conducted by Josep Farré, playing the Edward Grieg’s concerto for piano and orchestra in A minor and Franz Liszt’s concerto No. 1 in E flat major.
Having an active and enterprising personality, Maria Alba contacts other musicians to work in different musical ensembles: for a time with violinist Olivier Pehlivanian, whose concert at Château de Bossey, Switzerland, on the centenary year of the Armenian Church, is to be put in bold letters; with flutist Mikaële Bexon she plays at Salle Cortot in Paris; she also plays in different places of France as a member of the Ensemble ArcoNotes, as well as with the soprano Isabelle Laemmel, the flutist Jean-Marc Goujon and the violoncellist Laure le Monnier. With the Spanish actor Juan Reverte she works on a project of music and poetry. The result of this collaboration is a show that they premiered at Teatro Guerra in Lorca, Spain, which they continuously play in different Spanish places and theatres. They have recorded together the CDs Recitando por ahí and Mosaico poético from a trilogy dedicated to poets in Castilian language.
Her interest in art led her to collaborate on various art forms such as the Zig-Zag Ateliers d’artistes portes ouvertes in Gentilly, the festival on s'Bouge in Montrouge or, more recently, the opening of the exhibition by the Cameroon sculptor Malam at Alexandre III bridge in Paris, staged by Patrick Brunie. Maria Alba is currently teaching piano at the Conservatoire Municipal de Musique Gabriel Fauré in Neuilly-sur-Marne.
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La Justice du Piano... Quant elle s'exprime sur son art, l'observateur néophyte se dit que, notes après notes, la musique classique est naturellement belle, charmante, envoûtante. Sentiment partagé à l'écoute de l¡enregistrement « Classic & Romantic » dans laquelle elle joua au sein de l'orchestre symphonique Sant Cugat. Maria-Alba Sala Pelfort est soliste. Et une volonté d'être une grande professionnelle. En toute humilité et conviction...
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Maria Alba Sala i Pelfort