Slender Threads
A dialogue across generations of women composers
The programme brings together works by Lili Boulanger, Matilde Escalas and Julia Perry alongside three world premieres by Itziar Viloria, Montserrat Lladó, and Helena Cánovas, creating a dialogue across generations of women composers. It traces slender threads of continuity between legacy and creation, highlighting diverse voices, aesthetic lineages, and contemporary perspectives.
Natura Morta
A contemporary dialogue with the piano repertoire of the late 19th and early 20th centuries · a collaboration with composer Itziar Viloria
This project revisits the piano repertoire from the time when the instrument reached its greatest expressive potential, connecting works from the 19th and 20th centuries with contemporary sound practices. Through the use of electronics and current technology, it expands the piano’s acoustic and performative possibilities, creating a dynamic dialogue between past and present.
Més enllà de la presència (beyond presence)
Soundscapes of Resistance: Memory, Poetry, and Awareness through the Expanded Voice and Piano · a collaboration with composer Núria Giménez Comas and mezzosoprano Helena Ressureiçao
De Profunditat is a cycle of piano works born from the collaboration between composer Núria Giménez Comas and pianist Lluïsa Espigolé, inspired by the migratory tragedy of Lampedusa documented by Francesco Zizola. The project proposes an intimate and experimental sonic creation with a strong social commitment, engaging in dialogue with Schubert’s lieder and with Fragments d’Ombra, a contemporary and feminist reading of the Orpheus myth based on a text by Elfriede Jelinek.
Constellations
Poetic-musical cycle · a collaboration with composer Hèctor Parra, performance poet Arnau Pons and pianist Imma Santacreu
In Constellations, composer Hèctor Parra explores an expanded piano language inspired by Joan Miró’s homonymous series Constellations, transforming the instrument through extended techniques, objects, and improvisation. Performed by two pianists and an actor, the work creates a poetic, sensory universe that invites the audience into an intimate dialogue between sound, image, and emotion.
Reprocessing... piano+AI
Collaborative improvisation between the human pianist and AI system · with AI engineers Josep Maria Comajuncoses and Philippe Salembier
Reprocessing... piano+AI explores real-time musical interaction between a pianist and an artificial entity, using signal processing and machine learning to analyze the piano’s sound. Based on this analysis, the AI generates live musical responses, creating an improvisational dialogue between human and machine.
> PRESS START > GAME OVER
Between Reality, Technology, and Identity · a collaboration with composers and sound artists Alberto Bernal, Michael Beil, Óscar Escudero+Belenish Moreno-Gil and Stefan Prins.
This program explores how the piano and pianist are transformed in a digital, multimedia, and highly mediated context. It challenges traditional performance, blurring the boundaries between real and virtual, live and pre-recorded. Gesture, sound, and theatrical elements create platforms for interaction, identity, and play. The program features NeoLiberal Systems 4, Key Jane, [BIO], and Piano Hero.
Voices and Piano
Premiere of The Voice ‘Antoni Tàpies’ · a collaboration with composer and sound artist Peter Ablinger.
Voices and Piano is an extensive cycle for recorded spoken voices and piano, conceived by Peter Ablinger as a song cycle without singing. The voices are drawn from speeches, interviews, and readings, while the piano does not accompany but rather confronts them. Through this relationship, speech and music—reality and perception—are set in comparison.
From grey to blue
Barely anything: deformities of silence · a collaboration with sound artist Ferran Fages
The resonance, the ticking over of a note, stretches out time; but notes always fade away at the same speed. Perhaps it is our memory that makes them last forever, that holds them for longer. They disarrange known places, connect spaces, tidy unknown places, filaments of shadow or fragments of light. It does not matter which.
An hour for piano
One Hour, One Process
The work began in 1967 as short improvisatory sketches created while Tom Johnson accompanied a modern dance class at New York University. Johnson later expanded these materials into a continuous one-hour composition. In 1974, he added program notes meant to be read while listening, as a means to enhance concentration. These notes mirror the music through repetition and subtle textual variation.
Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Piano as percussion
Sonatas and Interludes by John Cage is a landmark work for prepared piano, transforming the instrument into a rich palette of percussive and resonant sounds. Inspired by Eastern philosophies, the cycle explores contrasting emotional states through an innovative and poetic sound world.
Deep resonance
A collaboration with sound artist Edu Comelles and visual artist Román Torre
Deep Ressonance is a live performance inspired by the current observation of the universe and how the scientific community reinterprets this data. An audiovisual show (Roman Torre) in which a window to the outside and a grand piano (Lluïsa Espigolé) dialogue through electromagnetic soundscapes and environments created by Edu Comelles.
Digital_Pianoplayer
From Engraving to Sound
Digital_Pianoplayer is an original musical creation by Lluïsa Espigolé, inspired In the engraving series DIGITAL PIANO PLAYER, realized by Masafumi Yamamoto as of the intervention of the musicians Agustí Fernàndez, Joan Saura, among others, with the direction of Manuel Barrios, author of the original idea.
Murmuration
A collaboration with sound artist and electroacustic composer ErikM
the work explores collective and synchronized movements, inspired by both the sky and fish schools, reflecting forces between order, disorder, and chance. It extends ErikM’’s calligraphic and sonic practice, where pictorial gestures meet electronic ones, and randomness drives the creative process. The piece unfolds as an immersive space of superpositions, propagations, and disappearances, like a continuously transforming sonic cloud. It moves fluidly between structure and accident, the collective and the individual, the organic and the electronic.
UPCOMINGS
El temps en escolta (listening time)
Keyboard and Electronics: Reimagining Pianistic Tradition through Technology, Memory, and Sound Transformation · a collaboration with composer Manuel Rodríguez Valenzuela
El Temps en Escolta brings together six pieces for keyboard and electronics that explore the relationship between pianistic tradition and new technologies. Drawing on quotations from Beethoven, Scarlatti, Bach, Chopin, Debussy, and Mozart, the works transform and recontextualize the classical repertoire through extended techniques, amplification, live electronics, and digital processes.
