Eulàlia Solé i Olivart

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Eulàlia Solé i Olivart (* 1946 in Barcelona ) is a Catalan classical pianist and piano teacher. As a graduate of the Conservatori de Barcelona and a student of Alicia de Larrocha , she belongs to the Catalan Pianist School .

life and work

Eulàlia Solé was born in 1946 into a family with a deeply rooted musical tradition. She entered the Barcelona Conservatory, where she studied piano with Pere Vallribera . At the age of 14 she gave her first public concert. At the age of 15 she interpreted César Franck's Symphonic Variations and Beethoven's Concerto No. 3 for piano and orchestra. In 1960 she went to Paris for three years to study with Christiane Sénart . After her return to Barcelona she resumed her concert activities. She also studied with Alicia de Larrocha in Barcelona and with Wilhelm Kempff in Positano (Italy). At the invitation of Maria Tipo , she spent a year in Florence in 1971/1972 and obtained a diploma at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory. She returned to Paris, where she received the European Conservatory Diploma with a first unanimous prize from the jury.

Since then she has performed in all major concert halls in Spain and around the world. She began her international career in 1980 in New York's Carnegie Hall . This was followed by solo piano concerts, chamber music performances and performances as an orchestral soloist in Puerto Rico, France, Italy, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and other countries. She has performed with the Orquestra Nacional d'Espanya, the Orquestra Ciutat de Barcelona, ​​the Dutch Chamber Orchestra, the Mannheim Orchestra, the London Saint Smith Square Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. She worked with conductors such as Antoni Ros-Marbà , Franz-Paul Decker , Rafael Ferrer , Maximiano Valdés , John Loubok , Stanisław Skrowaczewski , Vladislav Czarnecki and Mariss Jansons .

Solé has made radio and audio recordings in several countries. Her repertoire is broad and includes works from the Classical, Romantic and Modern periods. She showed a proven interest in contemporary music. She presented works by Ramón Barce , Josep Soler , Carlos Cruz de Castro and Joan Guinjoan . She has premiered numerous avant-garde works. Newer composers have dedicated numerous compositions to her. She had extraordinary success with the interpretation of the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach . The Festival Internacional de Música de Peralada in Catalonia, which is the publisher of these recordings, is to publish two volumes of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, also with Solé.

Eulàlia Solé combined her career as a concert pianist with the educational work as a piano teacher, which is important to her. From 2001 she taught the piano at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya , the Academy of Music of Catalonia. Before that, from 1982 to 1998 she was the head of the piano department of the Badalona Professional Music Conservatory.

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  1. ↑ The article is a translation of the article of the same name from the Catalan language Wikipedia. Evidence from the relevant articles in the Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana and the Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música has been added.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. Eulàlia Solé i Olivart.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música. Eulàlia Solé i Olivart
  4. ↑ Generalitat de Catalunya - Culturcat (web archive): Catalan musicians (19th Century AC - 20th Century AC). Retrieved January 21, 2019 . There is a section on the Catalan Pianist School .

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personal data
SURNAME Solé i Olivart, Eulàlia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan classical pianist and piano teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona