Artists
Olivia Zaugg (Bern, 1995) is living in Basel where she studied classical piano at the Musik-Akademie. She completed her post-graduate studies with Prof. Anton Kernjak in summer 2021. Her specialization in Lied has led to various duo collaborations: with Elionor Martínez Lara (focus French-Catalan repertoire), Sarah Widmer (focus folk song arrangements) and with Maria Laschinger (duo Blickwechsel, focus female composers). Interdisciplinary projects form an important part of her artistic work such as the participation in the music theater piece Triptychon or her solo performance Gaspis wundersame Reise, in which she combines text, movement and music. Her broad musical interests are reflected in cross-stylistic projects such as the duo GGCK with Martin Reck (live electronics and piano) or the Trio Weón with South American folk music, in which she participates as a singer and accordionist.
Oriol Prat Sabater finished his Master at the Stuttgarter Musikhochschule with Claudio Bohórquez. In 2013, he started as a cellist in the Cosmos Quartet, and he worked with Lluís Claret. In 2012, he finished the superior studies at the ESMuC (High School Music of Catalonia) with Damian Martínez, and he received chamber music lessons with the Casals Quartet and Kennedy Moretti. In 2005, he won the first prize in l'Arjau Competition in Barcelona and the same year he started playing at the JONC (Youth Orchestra of Catalonia), and in 2013 at the JONDE (Youth Orchestra of Spain).
Nascuda a Madrid el 2000 i formada a l'Escola Superior de Música Reina Sofia, ha guanyat, entre altres, el segon premi en el XXV Concurs Andrea Postacchini i el primer en el VIII Premi Francesco Geminiani. Ha actuat com a solista amb diverses orquestres espanyoles, destacant la seva interpretació del concert per a dos violins de Bach al costat d'Anne-Sophie Mutter i l'Orquestra de Cambra Viesgo. Apassionada intèrpret de música de cambra, ha participat en festivals a Europa, col·laborant amb artistes de la talla d'Ivan Moniguetti, Nobuko Imai i Rainer Schmidt. Des de setembre de 2023, és membre de l'Acadèmia de l'Orquestra Simfònica de la Ràdio de Baviera.
He has performed throughout Europe and in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Flagey, Bozar, Pau Casals Auditorium, Auditori de Barcelona, and Palau de la Música Catalana, both as a soloist and chamber musician. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Budapest, the Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie, the RTVE Orchestra in Madrid, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and the Andorra Chamber Orchestra. Pau has won several competitions and awards, such as the MBF’s Guilhermina Suggia Award, both the third prize and the Critique’s Award in the El Primer Palau Competition in Barcelona, and the first prize in the Concurso Permanente competition of Jeunesses Musicales of Spain. He is a member of the Esbjerg Ensemble, Oculi Ensemble and Trio Fortuny.
Born in Albacete, Spain, in 1997, he is studing his Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music in London and he studies at the Reina Sofía School of Music's Fundación Banco Santander Piano Chair since 2024. He is the winner, among others, of the second prize at the Paderewski International Piano Competition in Poland; the first prize at the International Piano Competition Compositores de España; the Rosa Sabater Award at the International Piano Competition “Premio Jaen” or the first prize at the César Franck International Piano Competition in Brussels. He has given recitals all over Europe and performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the OH! Orchestra at the Chopin and his Europe Festival in Warsaw, the Symphony Orchestra of Galicia, the Symphony Orchestra of Castilla y León, the Orchestra of Valencia, the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville or the Pomeranian Hall Symphony Orchestra in Poland.