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ANNA MORA

cello

Anna studied with Radu Aldulescu and Lluís Claret at the Centre d’Estudis Musicals de Barcelona and has also received tutorship from Enric Casals, Maria de Macedo (Madrid) Bernard Greenhouse (Barcelona, Boston, Prades)  and Sergiu Celibidache (Mainz, Stuttgart, Madrid).

In duo with acclaimed pianist and composer Albert Guinovart, she won first prize at the City of Manresa Chamber Music competition and the Catalan Association of Composers’ special award in 1982.

She was selected to form part of the Invitació a la Música programme (Live Music Now) founded in the UK by Yehudi Menuhin, whose objective is to take music to non-typical venues such as prisons, homes for the elderly, psychiatric wards and military training academies. She has performed on over a hundred occasions with the Live Music Now organisation and has recorded for Catalan channel TV3 and Spanish national TV2 with guitarist Joan Garrobé.

She was a member of the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès from 1991 to 1997 as solo assistant.

In 1980 she became a founding member of the Escola de Música de Barcelona and was assistant cello teacher under director Lluís Claret. At present, she teaches at the Escola Municipal de Música in Ametlla del Vallès, Barcelona.

Since 1997 she has directed the music school within the framework of the Fundació Collserola (Frederic Mistral, Tècnic Eulàlia, Avenç and Ramon Fuster) where she also teaches cello.

She regularly collaborates with the Orquestra Nacional de Cambra d’Andorra (ONCA), Andorra’s National Chamber Orchestra.

She has performed at festivals throughout Catalonia and is a member of the Quartet Guinjoan in collaboration with Lluís Claret.

 She regularly performs with pianist and composer Antoni-Olaf Sabater. 

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