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 a performer, working on projects such as Naisa Duo, with her activity as a composer. She has been awarded 2nd Prize in the 1st Llobet Guitar Composition Competition, 2nd Prize in the 3rd Maria de Pablos International Composition Competition (Fundación Don Juan de Borbón), and 1st Prize in the 4th Maria de Pablos International Competition. She was also selected by the SGAE Foundation for its incentives for premieres in 2020, 2021, and 2025, as well as for the 2024 Research and Innovation Grants from the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia.
Her string quartet work “Nóos” was premiered at the FIAS Festival 2021 in Madrid, performed by the Bauhaus Quartet. In 2022, she made the transcription for guitar duo of the works by Enric Escudé-Cofiner, published by Boileau Publishing. That same year, two recording projects were released: Keep My Cows, SXVI and XVII Revisited, with pianist and improviser Carles Marigó, and Somorrostro, el mar baila en la playa, with guitarist Anders Clemens Oien.
Currently, she combines her compositional work with collaborations with the Cofiner Foundation and JSM Records on a project involving arrangements for solo guitar of songs composed by Cofiner. As a performer, she continues to work on solo projects, with Duo Tombant, with Libere Ensemble, and on other collaborations, including the Palau de la Música Chamber Choir or Crossing Lines. To date, her compositions for guitar and chamber music have been performed in Spain, the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Maria completed her higher education in performance at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC). She graduated with the highest marks from her master’s studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she was awarded the prestigious Guildhall Artist Fellowship 2010–12. Her main artistic influences have included Emilio Molina, Feliu Gasull, David Dolan, Christian Burgess, and Ramon Humet.
