High School of Music Forum Musikae

Born in Barcelona, Alba Ventura made her debut as a concert soloist at the age of thirteen with the Orquestra de Cadaqués conducted by Sir N. Marriner in San Sebastian and at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid. Her career as an international soloist has since taken her to the grandest international stages such as the Wigmore Hall, the Barbican and St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Cité de la Musique in Paris,  the Svetlanovsky Hall in Moscow and the most important Spanish concert halls. Her international activity has also taken her to perform in the USA, Colombia, Argentina, New Zealand and China. Ventura has collaborated with conductors such as Antonini, Harth-Bedoya, Hogwood, Mas, Oue, Pons, Ros Marbà and Vásary, and performed with prestigious orchestras such as the Philharmonia, the Hallé, London Mozart Players, the Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, as well as the main Spanish orchestras.

Alba Ventura is in addition a devoted chamber musician and has played with pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja, the Brodsky, Takacs and Casals quartets, violinists Lina Tur Bonet, Boris Belkin, Gordan Nikolic and Tai Murray, violist Isabel Villanueva and cellists David Cohen and Astrig Siranossian.

Alba won the international auditions of the Young Concert Artist Trust (YCAT), was selected for the Rising Stars programme promoted by ECHO (European Concert Halls Organitzation) and has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth Rosebowl by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, the IMPULSA prize by the Fundació Príncep de Girona, the Albéniz Medal by the Fundació Isaac Albéniz and the MIN award to the best classical music album of 2020 for the first volume of the complete Mozart Piano Sonatas.

Alba is director of the Academia Marshall in Barcelona, professor at Forum Musikae High School of Music and at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu.