T15.A9. ADDA SIMFÒNICA/MARTÍNEZ/TORRES “Gaélica”

2017 National Music Award, Rosa Torres-Pardo is one of the most outstanding Spanish pianists of her generation.

She completed her training with Maria Curcio in London, Adele Marcus at The Juilliard School in New York, and Hans Graff in Vienna, having previously received an Extraordinary Final Degree Award at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid.

Throughout her career she has received various awards, such as the Masterplayers International Piano Competition in Lugano or the Isaac Albéniz Medal for the interpretation and dissemination of Iberia, a distinction she shared with Alicia de Larrocha.

She made her debut at the Teatro Real in Madrid in 1987 with the Philharmonia Hungarica conducted by Jean-Bernard Pommier, performing Prokófiev's 3rd concerto.

Since then she has performed on important international stages with orchestras such as Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

She has worked with conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Spivakov, Tamás Vásáry, José Serebrier or Yuri Temirkanov, performing in venues such as Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington, Wigmore Hall in London, Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires or the Sala de las Columnas in Moscow.

Her discography includes recordings for labels such as Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Naxos or Glossa, with titles such as Goyescas by Granados, Iberia by Albéniz, Tres Ballets Rusos (Prokófiev, Falla, Stravinsky), the Breve Concerto by Montsalvatge or The Caterpillar "Albéniz songs".

More recent works include Tangos, habaneras and other milongas, Las horas vacías by Ricardo Llorca with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, the Seis Quintetos by A. Soler and Flamencos with Rocío Márquez.

She develops interdisciplinary projects in music, cinema, theatre and poetry, collaborating with Luis García Montero, José Carlos Plaza, Jose Luis Gómez, Ana Belén or Mario Gas.

She proposes and stars in the musical films Iberia, by Carlos Saura; Una rosa para Soler and El amor y la muerte, about E. Granados.

In 2024 she is performing a tour in the United States with The Runaways about Spanish composers in New York.

Her next project Los diarios de Manhattan will be a theatricalised concert written by Ricardo Llorca with music by American composers such as Philipp Glass, Chick Corea, John Adams and Llorca himself.

She is also distinguished among the Top 100 Women Leaders in Spain and is a resident artist of the New York Opera Society.

Born in Molina de Segura, she was awarded a grant by the Fundación Séneca to study Orchestra Conducting at the Conservatorio de la Ciudad de Viena with Reinhard Schwarz and Georg Mark.

She completed her studies in June 2003 conducting the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio de Viena and obtained the Honours Degree with special mention.

She has conducted with great success distinguished international and national ensembles, including the Orquesta Filarmónica de Calgary, the Orquesta de la Radio de Viena, the Wiener Kammerorchester, the National Orchestras of Mexico, the orchestras of the festivals in Singapore, Brasilia and Montpellier, the Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra of Poland, the Orquesta Sinfónica del Conservatorio de Viena, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Biel, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Graz, the Orquesta Nacional de España, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona and Nacional de Cataluña, Oviedo Filarmonía, the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, the Filarmónica de Málaga, the Sinfónica de Bilbao, the Sinfónica del Vallés, the Orquesta de Extremadura, the one in Córdoba, the Ciudad de Granada, the one in Navarra and the one in Valencia, among others.

In 2004 she was appointed assistant to Bertrand de Billy at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

In the 2005/06 season she was Assistant Director of the OBC and in the 2006/07 season, assistant to the Orquesta de Valencia.

In December 2009 she performed a tour in the United States, with notable performances at McCormick Place in Chicago and Lincoln Center in New York, and in April 2010 she conducted the Orquesta del Conservatorio de Viena at the Proms in the Austrian capital.

She has worked with stage directors such as José Carlos Plaza, Emilio Sagi, Paco Azorín, Bárbara Lluch and Juan Echanove, and with soloists such as Javier Perianes, Boris Belkin, Joaquín Achúcarro, Judith Jáuregui, Fazıl Say, María Bayo, Pablo Ferrández, Gabriela Montero or Clara Andrada.

In 2016, Molina de Segura inaugurated the Auditorio Virginia Martínez Fernández in her honour.

In 2019 she received the recognitions "Woman of the Year" and "Murciana Woman of the Year 2018".

She has been Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the OSRM and of the Orquesta de Jóvenes de la Región de Murcia for 11 and 16 seasons, respectively.

She is currently Honorary Director of the OSRM and Professor of Orchestra Conducting at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Murcia.