Born in Barcelona, Alba Ventura made her debut as a concert soloist at the age of thirteen with the Orquestra de Cadaqués conducted by Sir N. Marriner in San Sebastian and at the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid. Her career as an international soloist has since taken her to the grandest international stages such as the Wigmore Hall, the Barbican and St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Cité de la Musique in Paris and the Svetlanovsky Hall in Moscow and the most important Spanish concert halls. Her activity has also taken her to perform in the USA, Colombia, Argentina, New Zealand and China. Alba has collaborated with conductors such as Albiach, Antonini, Diakun, Harth-Bedoya, Hogwood, Mas, Mena, Oue, Pons, Ros Marbà and Vásary, and performed with prestigious orchestras such as the Philharmonia, the Hallé, London Mozart Players, the Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, the National Norwegian Youth Orchestra as well as the main Spanish orchestras.
Alba Ventura is in addition a devoted chamber musician and has worked together with pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja, Brodsky, Takacs and Casals quartets, violinists Boris Belkin, Gordan Nikolic, Leticia Moreno, Tai Murray, Lina Tur Bonet, and Francisco Fullana, violist Isabel Villanueva and cellists David Cohen and Astrig Siranossian. She is currently a member of the Trio Freixas.
Alba won the international auditions of the Young Concert Artist Trust (YCAT), was selected for the Rising Stars programme promoted by ECHO (European Concert Halls Organitzation) and has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth Rosebowl by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, the IMPULSA prize by the Fundació Princesa de Girona and the Albéniz Medal by the Fundació Isaac Albéniz.
Notable recordings include a monographic album dedicated to Rachmaninov or the disc, “Études”, a selection of twenty studies from Czerny to Rautavaara which was very well received by the public and critics. In 2019 Alba Ventura started the recording of the Complete Mozart Piano Sonatas. June 2023 saw the release of the album “Spanish Light”, alongside violinist Francisco Fullana.
Alba is a professor at the Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceo, and director of the prestigious Academia Marshall, once led by Alicia de Larrocha.
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