Curricvlum Vitae

   Born in Madrid, Ms. Almudena Cano accomplished her studies at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música (Madrid), under the direction of Carmen Díez Martín. At this stage, she was awarded the second prize at the performing competition promoted by the Spanish Council for the Fine Arts (Dirección General de Bellas Artes) and Radio Nacional de España, competition in which 80 Spanish top musicians under 19 took part.

   She was later to proceed her studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (Ohio, US) under Joseph Schwartz, and also at the Sweelink Conservatorium (Amsterdam) under Jan Wijn.

   Between 1969 and the late 80s, she regularly received tuition from basque professor Juan Carlos Zubéldia, who played a crucial part in her education as a pianist as well as a musician.

   Almudena Cano appeared regularly in Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, England and Germany, both in piano recitals and in the field of chamber music. She also did recordings for state radio corporations in Spain, Holland, and Belgium, apart from some recordings for TVE (Spanish State Television).

   As a soloist she performed with the following orchestras: Ciudad de Valladolid, ALPHO (Amsterdam Conservatory Orchestra. Performances in Brussels and Amsterdam), Caecilia Consort (Holland), Ciudad de Córdoba, Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Ciudad de Granada, Sinfónica de Tenerife, Reina Sofia (Madrid) -taking part in the performance of Mozart's complete concertos‑, Sinfónica de la Comunidad de Madrid, Santo Domingo Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi and Salzburg Mozarteum.

   She worked with conductors such as Luis Remartínez, Max Bragado, José Ramón Encinar, Joop van Zon, Clark Suttle, Adan Natanek, Arturo Tamayo, Julio de Windt, Leo Brouwer, David Stem, Hans Graf y Vladimir Spivakov.

   Her recording of 12 sonatas by José Ferrer was awarded the Premio Nacional del Disco 1981 (Spanish Recording Music Award), from the Ministry of Culture.

   Seriously and actively committed to music teaching, she was head promoter of the Cursos de Especialización Musical (Specialist Music Courses) at the University of Alcalá (Madrid), and Quodlibet, its music journal. She was also the founder of the yearly summer course for young pianists 'Ciudad de Lucena', and the Intemational Piano Festival held in the same city.

   Ms. Cano held a Piano Professorship at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música in Madrid (Spain) until her death the 3rd of October of 2006.