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PARRA, Tània

Barcelona 1978

She studied music at the Superior Municipal Music Conservatory in this city, where she was a disciple of Professor Ma Jesús Crespo. She got the highest degrees in Piano, Chamber, Music Theory and Accompaniment. In London, she received postgraduate classes from pianist Peter Bithell, concert pianist and professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and worked with Lieder players Dalton Baldwin, Manuel Garcia Morante and Wolfram Rieger.
In 1992, she won the Third Prize of the VII Contest "Premi Ciutat de Berga" in category for young students and in 2006 the First Prize of the thirteenth Chamber Music Competition of Castellterçol, with soprano Eulàlia Ara, with whom she recorded "Les Veus de l’Alguer” and "Miralls Interiors" with songs by the composer Manuel Garcia Morante.
She has performed numerous concerts as a soloist and as a member of different chamber ensembles, highlighting those performed at Casa Elizalde, the Academia de Bellas Artes de Sabadell, the Chamber Hall of the Palau de la Música Catalana, Ateneu Barcelonès, Auditoriums of Caja Madrid and Caixa Manlleu, Chamber Hall of the Auditorium of Lleida, and at the Auditorium Viader of the Casa de Cultura of Girona in the cycle "Liederkreis".
In 2008 she obtained the DEA corresponding to the PhD program "Music and his teaching" at the University of Barcelona and, together with Júlia Ferrer, she published the article "Poesia i música: intertextualitats" in the magazine Temps d'Educació TE, 42,.
She is currently piano professor at the Isaac Albéniz Music Conservatory in Girona.
Tània tells us that she is not a composar but she loves inventing stories for piano so that little pianists, while playing, learn to express themselves through this màgic instrument.