María Guerras
Armonía
María Guerras realiza sus estudios pianísticos con Joaquín Soriano en el Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid. Es aquí donde obtiene el Título Superior de Piano.
En el Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Música y Danza de Lyon recibe clases de piano de Edith-Pitch Axenfeld y Rosa María Kucharsky. Al mismo tiempo estudia música de cámara con Sebastian Benda.
Posteriormente se traslada a Londres para realizar estudios de posgrado en la prestigiosa Guildhall School of Music and Drama de la mano de los reconocidos Peter Bithell y Paul Roberts. Tras finalizar obtiene el Certificate of Advanced Studies y es becada para proseguir su formación.
Observar a María Guerras tocar el piano es un embeleso. Pocas pianistas son capaces
de fundirse con la música como ella, con todos sus sentidos, y crear un todo en
armonía de una delicadeza y elegancia extremas.”
Durante su estancia en Reino Unido continúa perfeccionándose con Irina Zaritskaya y Alexandra Andreivsky, profesoras del Royal College of Music y de la Yehudi Menuhin School, respectivamente, y de quienes recibe una gran influencia.
A lo largo de su carrera ha trabajado con grandes maestros como Alicia de Larrocha, Boris Berezovsky, Victor Merzhanov y Eugen Indjic.
Finalista en el Young Concert Artists Trust, ha sido además galardonada en varios concursos de carácter tanto nacional como internacional.
Apasionada de la música de cámara actúa asiduamente con formaciones de dúo y trío. Como pianista ha actuado en diferentes televisiones y sus grabaciones se han escuchado en radios tanto nacionales como internacionales. Asimismo, ha ofrecido recitales tanto de solista como de pianista acompañante en festivales y numerosas salas de conciertos.
En María Guerras se aúnan técnica y pasión, necesarias para cualquier instrumento e
indispensables ante el piano, su mundo.
A través de LMN, institución musical fundada por Yehudi Menuhin e Ian Stoutzker, realiza distintas giras de conciertos, destacando sus actuaciones en Londres, Windsor, Kent, Hastings, Alnwick, Darlington, Reading, Stafford o Newcastle.
Paralelamente a su formación musical se ha desarrollado en otros campos, siendo Graduada por la Universidad de Salamanca. Posee, también, el Título de Máster Universitario en Interpretación e Investigación Musical de la Universidad Internacional de Valencia.
En los últimos años ha estado vinculada a proyectos transversales y multidisciplinares, colaborando con renombrados artistas plásticos, escritores, poetas, actores y bailarines.
Es invitada a participar con regularidad en diferentes ciclos y festivales. Forma parte del ciclo Poéticas de Salamanca y del Festival Salamanca. Lenguaje Universal de Cultura.
Es autora y productora de sus propios espectáculos, entre los que destaca El Piano. Una experiencia multisensorial, cuyo estreno tuvo lugar en 2019.
Sus últimos trabajos discográficos surgen como un homenaje a la figura del compositor español Martín Sánchez Allú, cuyo segundo centenario se celebró en 2023. El primero de los CD´s, «Appassionato», publicado en 2022, es la primera grabación dedicada monográficamente a la obra pianística de Sánchez Allú, que asimismo cuenta con varias grabaciones inéditas. Un segundo CD, «Fantasía», grabado para conmemorar el bicentenario de Allú, consta de 12 piezas nunca grabadas antes que muestran la calidad artística de este compositor.
María Guerras publicará próximamente 3 nuevos CD´s que suponen la culminación de la única y primera grabación mundial de la obra completa para piano de Martín
Sánchez Allú.
Actualmente es profesora titular del Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Salamanca, donde compagina su labor docente junto a su carrera concertística y sus producciones musicales.
Maria Guerras studied in Madrid where she graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music with a Superior Degree in Piano Performance Studies.
At the National High Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon, she received classes in piano from Edith-Pitch Axenfeld and Rosa María Kucharsky, while learning chamber music from Sebastian Benda.
She subsequently travelled to London where she pursued postgraduate studies at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the guidance of famous musicians, such as Peter Bithell and Paul Roberts. After receiving the Certificate of Advanced Studies, she was awarded a grant to further her musical education.
Watching María Guerras perform is pure delight. Very few pianists are able to submerge themselves in their music to the extent that they become one with it. The result is a harmonious whole shimmering with exquisite delicacy and elegance.
During her stay in the United Kingdom, she also studied with Irina Zaritskaya and Alexandra Andreivsky, professors at the Royal College of Music and the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music, respectively, both of whom had a significant impact on her vision of music and how it should be performed.
Throughout her career as a musician, she also had the opportunity to work with great artists such as Alicia de Larrocha, Boris Berezovsky, Victor Merzhanov, and Eugen Indjic.
Not only has she been awarded prizes in national and international competitions, she was also a finalist in the Young Concert Artists Trust.
Passionate about chamber music, she has regularly performed with duos and trios. As a pianist she has performed and broadcast both on TV and on the national and international radios and has given recitals as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist at music festivals and numerous concert halls.
María Guerras combines the technique and passion necessary for any instrument and indispensable for the piano, which is her world.
LMN, a musical institution founded by Yehudi Menuhin and Ian Stoutzker, has been invited her to perform on a tour in London, Windsor, Kent, Hastings, Alnwick, Darlington, Reading, Stafford, and Newcastle.
Parallel to her musical training, she also completed a Teaching Degree at the University of Salamanca. Furthermore, she also holds a Master’s degree in Music Performance and Research from the International University of Valencia.
In recent years she has been actively involved in various transversal and multidisciplinary projects, in which she has collaborated with renowned artists, writers, poets, actors, and dancers.
Besides being regularly invited to cycles and festivals, she is part of the cycle, Poéticas de Salamanca, as well as part of the Salamanca´s Lenguaje Universal de Cultura Festival.
She is the author and producer of her own shows, including El Piano. A multisensory experience, which premiered in 2019.
Her latest recordings are a tribute to the composer, Martín Sánchez Allú, whose second centennial was celebrated in 2023. Appassionato, released in 2022, has been the first CD exclusively focused on his piano work. A second CD, Fantasy, which is a sequel to the first, an homage to the composer on his second centennial to recover the legacy of this unjustly forgotten composer, features 12 piano compositions that have never been previously recorded.
Maria Guerras will soon record 3 new CDs to culminate the world premiere recording of the complete works for piano by the Spanish composer Martín Sánchez Allú.
María Guerras currently teaches at the Conservatory of Music in Salamanca, where she combines teaching with concert performances and musical productions.