About Maria Camahort…
With her personal projects and different collaborations, Maria has performed in major concert halls of cities such as as London (Milton Court, Southbank Centre, Kings Place), Paris (Salle Cortot), St. Petersburg (Glasunov Hall), Moscow (Scriabin Museum), Warsaw (Lutoslawsky Hall, Teatr Imka), Cracow, Hamburg (Elbphilarmonie), Barcelona (Auditori, Palau de la Música), Madrid (Círculo de Bellas Artes, Residencia de Estudiantes), Brussels (European Commission), Mexico City, Chicago, Bethlehem (USA), Auckland (NZ).
She lived in London from 2008 to 2017, developing a concert career where her facet as an arranger and composer was an essential element. This is the case of projects such as MCQ Iberian Colors, an original ensemble with whom she recorded two albums: Iberian Colors (2015, Convivium Record Int.), y Danzas, Canciones y Nanas (2018, JSM Records). Other relevant London projects were the theatrical production Don Quixote de la Mancha (Little Soldier Productions), the musical The Last Five Years (Barbican Centre, 2010), and the classical duets with flutist Lucy Driver (Pro-Musicis 2013) and soprano Laura Ruhí-Vidal.
In 2017 she returned to Barcelona, where she combines her career as an instrumentalist (projects such as Tombant Duo, Libere ensemble, Naisa Duo and other collaborations including Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Música) with her activity as a composer. She was awarded the 2nd Prize in the I Llobet Composition Competition for guitar, the 2nd Prize in the Maria de Pablos III International Composition Competition (Don Juan de Borbón Foundation), the 1st prize at the Maria de Pablos IV Int. Comp. Contest, was selected by the SGAE Foundation for the 2020, 2021 and 2025 premiere incentives, and by the Grants for Research and Innovation from the Culture Department of Catalonia 2024. She premiered her work for string quartet “Nóos”, commissioned by the FIAS 2021 festival (Madrid), and performed by the Bauhaus Quartet. In 2022, she realised the arrangement for guitar duo of the works by E. Escudé-Cofiner, published by Boileau Music. Nowadays, she collaborates with Fundación Cofiner and JSM Records in an ongoing project of arrangements for solo guitar of works by E. Escudé-Cofiner. Her compositions for guitar and chamber music have been performed in Spain, France, UK, USA, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
In 2022, she released the albums Keep My Cows, SXVI and XVII revisited (together with pianist and improviser Carles Marigó) and Somorrostro, el mar baila en la playa (together with guitarist Anders Clemens Oien). On 2026 will be published the album París-Barcelona, with Libere Ensemble.
Maria completed her studies in Classical Performance at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelona. Graduating with a distinction in her Master Studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she was awarded the prestigious Guildhall Artist Fellowship from 2010-12. Her main artistic influences are Emilio Molina, Feliu Gasull, David Dolan, Christian Burgess and Ramon Humet.
