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Alba Rana

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Biography

Nacida en Vigo en 2001. Su primer contacto con el piano se produjo en julio de 2014 cuando recibió las primeras lecciones de Alina Pociute, profesora fundamental en su formación musical. En septiembre de ese mismo año ingresó al curso de segundo grado obteniendo la máxima puntuación en los exámenes de ingreso. Esta rápida progresión la llevará a su primera expansión de inscripciones antes del final del primer trimestre del curso oficial. En junio de 2016 obtuvo, nuevamente, el primer lugar en la prueba de ingreso a título profesional.

 

Asiste a diversas masterclasses con Josep Colom, Claudio Martínez-Mehner, Denis Pascal, Katia Veeckmans, Carmen Martínez Pierret, Alberto Rosado, Marisa Manchado, Emilio Molina, Mariya Bondarenko y Douglas Finch. En agosto de 2016 fue seleccionada para participar como alumna activa en la "Ingenium Academy International Summer School for Music", donde recibió lecciones de destacados profesores como Clíodna Shanahan, Simon Callaghan, Hiro Takenouchi, Heather Tomala, Richard Sisson y Leon McCawley, obteniendo en la audición final el "Premio Chopin a la mejor interpretación". En noviembre de 2018 obtuvo en Ponteareas el 3er premio absoluto y "Premio a la mejor interpretación de las obras obligatorias" en el Concurso Nacional Reveriano Soutullo.

 

In 2018, she will participate in "The Carnival of the Animals" as piano soloist, selecting for this project an ensemble of highlighted students from the Professional Conservatory of Music of Vigo. In 2019, she recorded the CD "Abiogénesis 79" with the Polyphonic Choir of Carballiño, Ourense, Spain and will also play as a soloist in the "David Russell Auditorium” of the Professional Conservatory of Music of Vigo, accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra of this place. She maintains, from the beginning of her piano studies, a wide and dense concert activity, performing numerous piano recitals every year and performing in them a very diverse repertoire.

 

After finishing in 2019 the professional degree in the specialty of French Horn at the Professional Conservatory of Vigo with the highest qualifications, she has currently obtained the "Extraordinary Prize of Professional Artistic Education" in the specialty of piano and the 1st absolute prize in the Soloist Competition of the Conservatory of Music of Vigo. She has also recently been awarded with “3rd absolute prize” in the “Expert Category” of the "Medici International Music Competition" and the “Pepito Arriola prize”, for the best galician pianist, of the V International Piano Competition “City of Vigo”. Last June she has been admitted in the last round of the entrance exams at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover among candidates of multiple nationalities. She also combines her higher degree studies in the specialty of General Pedagogy and Musical Language at the Conservatory of Music of Vigo with the Degree in Art History at the UNED.

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