Ignasi Cambra

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Ignasi Cambra on November 28, 2016 in a concert with the Orquestra simfònica del Liceu (WA Mozart, Concerto for piano n.23 KV 488)
Ignasi Cambra with the music director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu Josep Pons i Viladomat 2016
Ignasi Cambra at a concert in Ametlla del Vallès in 2016

Ignasi Cambra (* 1989 in Barcelona ) is a blind , Catalan classical pianist. The Russian conductor Valeri Gergiev celebrated him as the “one who can talk to me at the piano”. Cambra is assigned to the Catalan School of Pianists .

life and work

Cambra went to the French grammar school in Barcelona , where, in addition to his native Catalan, he was also taught in Spanish, French and English. At the age of six he began his piano and music studies at the private Escola de Música de Barcelona with Maria Lluïsa Alegre and Albert Atenelle . He started playing concerts early and taking part in soloist and chamber music competitions. He has won awards at the International Carlet Competition and the Infanta Cristina Piano Competition in Spain. He made his orchestral debut at the age of 15 with the Vic Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Jordi Mora in Barcelona. He performed at the Minato Mirai Hall in Yokohama that same year .

Cambra has received grants from the Joventuts Musicals de Madrid and the La Caixa de Barcelona social service . At the age of 17, he continued his studies in the United States . He initially completed summer courses in Indiana and was admitted to the Jacobs School of Music at Bloomington University . Here he studied piano and business administration at the same time. In 2012 Cambra was a fellow of the Music Academy of the West . He completed master classes with Arnaldo Cohen , Ingrid Flitter , Joseph Kalichstein , Emanuel Krasovsky , Robert Levin , Seymor Lipkin , Robert McDonald and others. As an enthusiastic chamber musician, he received support from Alon Goldstein , Franz Helmerson , Alexander Kerr , Michaela Martin , Anton Nel , Peter Salaff and the members of the Miró string quartet .

In 2014 he went to the Juilliard School to study . In the same year he was artist in residence in “La Pedrera” , in the “stone quarry”, as the people of Barcelona affectionately call their “Casa Milà” by Gaudí. He gave a solo concert there and invited other musicians to joint public chamber concerts there. In 2014 he received a scholarship from the Ravinia Festival's Steans Music Institute and was invited to another concert there the following year.

Since 2015 he has been working on the “Partitura” funding project for young musical talents with the pianist Maria João Pires , whom he has known since he was ten. This project explicitly includes the musical support of socially disadvantaged and blind children.

Cambra has appeared as an artist on radio and television in Spain, Canada and the USA. The Viennese piano maker Bösendorfer has named Ignasi Cambra a "Bösendorfer artist".

Cambra learned his scores through Braille and increasingly through his hearing.

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Web links

Commons : Ignasi Cambra  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Ignasi Cambra: Personal website (biography).
  2. ↑ a b Lluís Trullen: Ignasi Cambra.
  3. ↑ a b Bösendorfer: Ignasi Cambra.
  4. ^ Brussels International Artists Management Madrid: Ignasi Cambra.
  5. ↑ Quote from: Bösendorfer: Ignasi Cambra.
  6. ↑ a b c Aina Vega: Ignasi Cambra o tocar amb els ulls tancats . In: Ajuntament de Barcelona (ed.): Barcelona Metròpolis . June 2014.
  7. ↑ a b Xavier Cervantes: Ignasi Cambra: “L'ensenyament musical a les escoles per a nens cecs sovint és un disastre”. In: ara.cat (cultura). March 9, 2016, Retrieved October 18, 2019 (Catalan).

See also

personal data
SURNAME Cambra, Ignasi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan classical pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona