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Miriam Gómez-Morán

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 Alan Walker, author of the 3-volume prize-winning biography of Liszt, has said of her:
"I was deeply impressed with her Liszt recital. Her performance of the "Weinen, Klagen" Variations was a tour de force, while her interpretation of the formidable "Vallée d'Obermann" was the best that I have ever heard. It was not just a matter of technique, which she possesses in abundance. One was aware that a true artist presided at the keyboard".

Born in Madrid in 1974, Miriam Gómez-Morán receives her first piano lesson at the age of eleven at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, where her principal teachers were Carmen Deleito, Manuel Carra (Piano) and José Luis Turina (Harmony). During this period, she often works with Josep Colom. She obtained her Título de Profesor Superior de Piano (equivalent to a Master's degree) in 1994. From 1992 to 1996 she pursues postgraduate studies at the "Liszt Ferenc" Academy of Music in Budapest (Hungary) under the guidance of Prof. Ferenc Rados (Piano and Chamber Music), Kornél Zempléni (Piano) and Károly Botvay (Chamber Music), as a scholarshipholder of the Spanish Foreign Office, Ministry of Education and Culture, AIE and EPTA (Masaveu Prize). From 1998 to 2000 she studies harpsichord and fortepiano with Prof. Dr. Robert Hill and Michael Behringer and piano with Prof. Dr. Tibor Szász at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Freiburg (Germany). She receives scholarships of AIE, EPTA, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Wardwell Grant) and La Caixa-DAAD. She obtained the degree of Musiklehrer in 2000 (Historical Keyboard Instruments) and Künstlerische Ausbildung (Harpsichord / Fortepiano) in 2002, both with the highest marks possible.

She has been a member of "Proyecto Gerhard", with which she has recorded a CD for the Ministry of Culture, and "Plural Ensemble". With this latter group she has recorded a CD of works by Fabián Panisello for the label "Col legno". She has also worked with other orchestras such as Bilbao Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Comunidad de Madrid. From 1996 to 1998 she taught at the Music School in Villacañas (Toledo). In november 2000 she took up a professorship at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Salamanca, Spain's leading musical institution.

She has been prize-winner at the following competitions: Marisa Montiel National Piano Competition (1987 and 1993), Ciutat de Carlet National Piano Competition (1991 and 1996) and Ciudad de Segovia National Piano Competition (1993). She won First Prize Pizzicato at Gregorio Baudot Piano Competition (1991), First Prize and Special Prize to the Best Performer of Mozart's Music at the Mozart Piano Competition (1991), and First Prize (category: solo) at the V Patronato L'Arjau Competition (Barcelona, 2000).She has also won the following prizes for chamber music performances: First Prize at the School Competition of the Musikhochschule in Freiburg (1999) and a Special Prize at the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Competition (Berlin, 2000), both for Chamber Music Performance with Horn; a Special Prize at the Chamber Music Podium of Villatorrada; First Prize in Chamber Music and Second Prize in Catalan Contemporary Music at the V Patronato L'Arjau Competition (Barcelona, 2000); First Prize in duo-trio category at the IV Guadamora International Chamber Music Competition (Córdoba, 2004). Her partners in these competitions were the hornist María Rubio (Freiburg, Berlin) and the violinist Josep Colomé (all competitions).

She has attended masterclasses with Lazar Berman, Edith Picht-Axenfeld, María João Pires, Jan Wijn, Carola Grindea, Ramón Coll, Klaus Hellwig, Rita Wagner, Tibor Szász, Robert Hill, Barry Snyder, László Dobszay, Mária Eckhardt, Paul Badura-Skoda, Charles Rosen, Paul Roberts, László Somfai, Ferenc Rados, Maggie Cole, Arthur Schoonderwoerd and Alan Walker.

Miriam Gómez-Morán made her first public appearance at the age of twelve. Since then, she has performed extensively on the piano, the fortepiano and the harpsichord in various countries, such as France, Hungary, Germany, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Italy and Spain. She has also recorded for radio and television in these countries. Her performaces at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid include: her debut in 1995 (a recital for the 50th Anniversary of United Nations, recorded by Spanish National Radio, that included the world première of "Puteus acerbus" by Rogelio Groba); a concert as soloist with Madrid Symphony Orchestra (1996), and a recital in the "The Piano through its History" series (1998). Other major performances were a harpsichord recital at St. Cecilia´s Hall on the 1755 Kirckman (Edinburgh, 2000) and piano recitals at the Juan March Foundation (Madrid), Liszt Museum (Budapest) and St. Martin in the Fields (London, 2002). She is regularly invited to perform at international festivals such as the Festival of the American Liszt Society, The Great Romantics Festival, Festival de Granada, Festival de Otoño, Tavaszi Hangversenyek, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Festival ENSEMS, Festival Spanish Brass-Luur Metalls, etc.

She has written articles for specialized magazines such as "La Montaña Mágica" and "Quodlibet". In November 2002 she was invited by the Aula de Música of the University in Alcalá de Henares to give a masterclass on "Symbology in the music of Liszt". She has recorded her first solo CD with works by Liszt for the label Verso (VRS 2014) in August 2003.


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