Rosa Torres-Pardo

She was born in Madrid and received a special graduation award from the Royal High Conservatory of Music. She studied with Joaquín Soriano and Gloria Olalla, with María Curcio in London, at the Juilliard School in New York and with Hans Graff in Vienna.

She obtained the Masterplayers Prize in Lugano -Switzerland- in 1986 and made a very successful debut at the Royal Theatre in Madrid in 1987, playing S. Prokofiev's Concerto no. 3 with Filarmonia Hungarica and Jean Bernard Pommier.

She has worked with great orchestras, such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and the London Royal Philarmonic, and with conductors such as V. Spivakov, Ch. Dutoit, J. Fournet, T. Vásáry and Y. Termikanov, at halls that include Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, the Hall of Columns in Moscow and Filarmonia in St. Petersburg, Wigmore Hall and Sadlers Wells in London, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Music Halle in Hamburg and numerous theatres in Europe. She has offered concerts at the Colón Theatre in Buenos Aires and the Hong Kong City Hall, as well as recitals in Australia and China. She has performed with Plácido Domingo in the United States and has given concerts and recitals in Spain with the best orchestras in the country.

She has collaborated with the Melos, Assai and Janacek quartets, with singers such as Ruggero Raimondi, María Bayo, Isabel Rey, Marina Pardo and Enrique Viana, actors like José Luis Gómez and dancer Lola Greco.

She has participated in the Largo Caballero Foundation programme "Music to Factories and Casas del Pueblo" for workers, at settings such as Renfe workshops, Iberia hangars, Heineken in Seville, Metro, Aceralia -Avilés-, etc.

Since 1998, painter Eduardo Arroyo holds the Encounters with Rosa Torres-Pardo Music Festival in Robles de Laciana -León-, with the collaboration of important painters and musicians.

She has recorded for Decca, Calando, Naxos, Autor, Deutsche Grammophon and Glossa.

Her most outstanding performances include her versions of E. Granados' Goyescas and I. Stravinski's Petruchka, Prokofiev's Roméo et Juliette, M. de Falla's El Amor Brujo, X. Montsalvatge's Concierto Breve and I. Albéniz's Rapsodia with Víctor Pablo Pérez and the Symphony Orchestra of Tenerife, Nin Culmell's Concerto with A. Ros Marbá and the Symphony Orchestra of Seville, L. Balada's Concerto no. 3 with the OCB, and the premiere of Antón García Abril's Canciones Asturianas in a version for piano and singing, with tenor Joaquín Pixán.

Together with Alicia de Larrocha, she was awarded the Isaac Albéniz medal in Camprodón, Girona -the composer's native city- for the performance and dissemination of Iberia, which was recorded live on 14 August 2004 -the date when the medal was granted- for the label Glossa.

Since 2005, Rosa Torres-Pardo is a Yamaha artist.