Contemporary experimental pianist

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Lluïsa Espigolé is a pianist specializing in contemporary repertoire. Her artistic activity focuses on the performance and premieres as a soloist, in chamber music, and with ensembles, as well as on collaborations in interdisciplinary projects and free improvisation.

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As a soloist, she has promoted and premiered a large number of works by composers of her generation and has collaborated with performers, improvisers, and multimedia artists from the experimental scene. She has appeared at festivals and concert venues such as the Lucerne Festival, Musica Festival Strasbourg, Internationales Musikfestival Darmstadt, Sónar Barcelona, Sampler Series at L’Auditori, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Konzerthaus Wien, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, among others.

 

Based in Barcelona, she has collaborated with a wide range of ensembles and orchestras, including Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Ascolta, CrossingLines Ensemble, Frames Percussion, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i nacional de Catalunya (OBC), Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg.

 

Alongside her performing career, she develops pedagogical activities in collaboration with various universities and music institutions, focusing on 20th- and 21st-century repertoire and multimedia works. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Piano and Chamber Music at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón (Zaragoza), where she founded the educational project Piano Activities. She is also co–artistic director of Difraccions · Xarxa de Músiques Inusuals arreu del Territori, a series dedicated to experimental and unconventional music practices.

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She studied with Yukiko Sugawara, Nicolas Hodges, Florent Boffard, and Florian Hölscher, and also had the opportunity to work with Ueli Wiget, Hermann Kretzschmar, and the other members of Ensemble Modern during the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie in Frankfurt. Her close collaboration with composers such as Peter Ablinger, Joanna Bailie, Michael Beil, Beat Furrer, Helmut Lachenmann, Bernhard Lang, Jessie Marino, and Marco Stroppa, as well as with numerous composers of her own and younger generations, has been decisive in her artistic development.

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