Isabel Dobarro

Dr Isabel Dobarro is one of the most internationally renowned Spanish pianists of her generation. She is a Professor at the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska, President of the European Music Centre Spain and invited as Visiting Professor at the London Performing Academy of Music in the UK. She has developed her career in the United States, Spain, Germany, Russia, Belgium, France, Argentina, Italy and Portugal.

As a soloist Dobarro has performed and lectured at some of the most renowned venues in the world, including Carnegie Hall, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the European Parliament, the National Auditorium in Madrid and the Palau de la Música Catalana, among many others.

Her work as an advocate for female composers has been recognised with a Women to Follow Award, the Alfiler de Oro Prize, a New York Women Composers’ Seed Money Grant and as a finalist in the Future Women of Classical Music Award in London. For her work in the recovery of music by women composers she has been invited to speak at the Women Now Conference together with Her Majesty Queen Letizia of Spain and film producer Kathleen Kennedy. In 2016 together with mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna, Isabel Dobarro created the Women in Music Project, an initiative that promotes music composed by women from around the world.

Committed to the performance of new music Dobarro has given national and world premieres of works by Eduardo Soutullo, Miguel Bustamante, Consuelo Díez, Juan Durán, Julia Dopico, Mercedes Zavala, Marga Richter and José Buenagú, among others. Her album The Unknown Pauline Viardot released in 2021 received critical acclaim.

Isabel Dobarro has formed duos with the concertmaster of the RTVE Symphony Orchestra Miguel Borrego, the guitar master José María Gallardo del Rey and the outstanding flautist Rubén Torres Melero. She has collaborated with the New York Philharmonic and also played with the Orquestra Simfònica Solidària de Barcelona, the Real Filharmonía de Galicia and the Orquestra Filarmónica de Braga, among others.

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