A musician who has been praised as “a moving young poet” («Le Devoir» of Montreal), Spanish/Dutch pianist Albert Cano Smit enjoys a growing international career on the orchestral, recital, and chamber music stages. Noted for his captivating performances, storytelling quality and nuanced musicality, the First Prize winner of the 2019 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions has appeared as a soloist with the Seattle Symphony, Las Vegas Philharmonic, the San Diego Symphony or the Barcelona Symphony, Catalonia National Orchestra. Recital highlights have included his debuts at the Carnegie Hall, the Merkin Concert Hall recitals at San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, Paris’ Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater in Washington, DC, Germany’s Rheingau Music Festival, and return performances at the Steinway Society in San Jose and Auditori de Barcelona.

Graduated with honors in piano performance at the ESMUC and the Master of Piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, she is currently also completing her studies in Hamburg, the prestigious Konzertexamen. In 2025 she received the Franz-Wirth Stiftung scholarship of excellence in Hamburg. She performs regularly in Catalonia, the rest of Spain, the United Kingdom and Germany. She has been awarded in international competitions such as the Isaac Albéniz Competition in Camprodon or the Elise Meyer Competition in Hamburg, among others. In parallel with her training and piano activity, she is the promoter and artistic director of the Clàssic Pals Festival and, since 2022, she has formed a duo with the violinist Abel Tomàs. She is also a piano teacher at the Marshall Academy in Barcelona and an adjunct professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg.

Hailed by Le Soir as “a wonderful musician who deliberately avoids ostentation,” Nicolás Margarit has quickly established himself as an extraordinarily versatile musician whose wide-ranging repertoire encompasses performances on both modern and historical keyboards. He performs in venues and concert series throughout Europe, mainly in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom. Born in Brisbane, Australia, Nicolas began his musical studies at the age of three. He moved to Spain in 2017 to study with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. Since then he has continued his studies with Milana Chernyavska and Claudio-Martinez Mehner, receiving additional lessons from such musicians as as András Schiff, Andreas Staier and Pierre-Laurent Aimard.