BIO
If someone had told Albert’s 10-year-old version that one day he would grow to become a composer, he would have said they must be insane. At that time, he really hated all music!
At that age, every schoolchild was expected to learn the basics of playing a plastic recorder, but he could not even manage a scale. Apparently, he was tone-deaf. The teacher showed no mercy, and music would be the only school subject he would ever fail, twice.
At 14, however, he had a much more likeable teacher, David Miret, who rekindled his love of music and eventually discovered that his difficulties stemmed from a defective recorder.
Albert grew up in Vilafranca del Penedès (a medium-sized yet rural town in Barcelona province) in a family with neither a musical background nor any particular predilection for classical music. After rediscovering that music could actually be enjoyable, he began piano lessons at 16 with local teacher Assumpta Breda.
At 18, he started commuting daily to Barcelona to study engineering and was forced to abandon all formal musical training. During that period, he began teaching himself music theory from books and made his first tentative attempts at composition at 19. Since then, he has continued autonomously, becoming a completely self-taught composer.
Nowadays, he is based in Barcelona, balancing his passion for composing with his work as an industrial engineering consultant and a university lecturer at his alma mater.
His musical style is rooted in classical forms and proportions, with a strong emphasis on melody. He strives to maintain a balance between emotion and intellectual rigour. He believes that humour is, unfortunately, an oft-neglected aspect of music and enjoys blending “high” and “low” art.
His harmonic language draws inspiration from French Impressionism, Slavic Neo-primitivism, and jazz. Some of his favourite composers include Schubert, Ravel, Bartók, Prokofiev, Poulenc, and Kapustin.
His works have been performed in Europe and the United States, and his YouTube channel has amassed more than 2,600 subscribers. Since 2024, he has also served as a board member of the Association of Catalan Composers.
Recognition (in case you care)
5th Orfeó Català Competition (Barcelona, 2025)
- Best composition in Catalan (Op.19)
Bartók World Competition (Budapest, 2024)
- Finalist (Op.18)
Ensemble for These Times Call for Scores (San Francisco, 2024)
- Winner (Op.12)
2nd Saad Haddad Prize (New York City, 2024)
- Finalist (Op.15)
5th Premiere Project Festival of Choral Arts Initiative (California, 2024)
- Selected composer fellow (Op.24)
7th Sant Antoni Composition Competition (Barcelona, 2022)
- Winner (Op.16)
2nd Composition Competition of Cors Joves de Catalunya (Barcelona, 2020)
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