Mireia Vendrell del Álamo (Barcelona, 1986) is a pianist who has lived and worked in Bremen
since 2012.

She completed her diploma in piano and her master's degree in music education at the ESMUC
(Barcelona School of Music). In Germany, she specialized in New Music and completed a
master's degree in piano at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Künste Stuttgart. Among
her teachers are Luca Chiantore, Nicolas Hodges, Josep Maria Colom, Jordi Camell, Ramon
Coll and the Cuarteto Casals.

 

She is primarily dedicated to contemporary music and has performed numerous world
premieres for solo piano, chamber music and ensemble. She is a founding member of the
Ensemble New Babylon in Bremen, where she also curates and designs projects. She has been
the pianist of the CrossingLines Ensemble Barcelona since 2010. She has performed at
international festivals and concert halls in numerous European countries, Indonesia, South
Korea and Argentina.

 

Her interest in improvised music has grown in recent years. She is currently developing
programs in which she combines the older repertoire with new music and free improvisation.
She has worked intensively with other keyboard instruments and has played several pieces with
harpsichord, toy piano, Hammond organ and other various electric keyboards.

Mireia Vendrell is an active and committed teacher. She has worked in private and public music
schools in Bremen and Niedersachsen. She currently teaches at the Bremen Music School,
where she works in disadvantaged districts of Bremen and carries out various educational
projects.

 

She has recorded several CDs. In 2007, a solo recording with works by Klein, Webern and
Prokofiev was released on the D+3 label. She also took part in “Tutto Demestres I” with works
by Alberto García Demestres (D+3, 2007), “9” with works by composers from Bremen (Starfish
Music, 2016) and a portrait CD of the Spanish composer Benet Casablancas (NAXOS, 2019).
Her concerts have been broadcast on BBC (UK), Radio Bremen, Hessischer Rundfunk,
Deutschlandfunk Kultur (DE) as well as on COMRadio and Catalunya Musica (ES).