Biography

Bernat Sánchez Farrés (Barcelona, 1995) is a classical and contemporary pianist. He studied for a Higher Degree in Piano and a Master's degree at the ESMUC and Liceu de Barcelona with Pierre Reach, Enrique Bagería and Emili Brugalla. He specialized with the Master Klavier Duo at the Mozarteum in Salzburg under the guidance of Yaara Tal and Andreas Groethuysen. Later he also went deeper with the Master in Piano Technique and Biomechanics from ESMAR and Musikeon with Luca Chiantore and Pablo Gómez Ábalos. He is currently studying the Doctorate Program in Music at the University of Aveiro with Luca Chiantore and Fausto Manuel da Silva Neves. Throughout his training, he has received official scholarships from the Pere Pons Foundations, the Liceu, the AIE and the Mozarteum for his artistic and academic achievements. Focused on the artistic project of the piano duo Sánchez & Fortuny, they have been awarded in numerous competitions and have played on many stages in Spain, Catalonia, Andorra, Austria, Portugal, Israel and Kazakhstan. In 2022 they published their first double CD with music for four hands by Schubert, Mozart, Czerny and Reger as part of their Master's thesis research.

Keywords: Artistic research, Piano duo; Preludes; Interludes; Cadences; Fermatas; Ornamentation; Improvisation