About Piano Cleveland

Eugenia Sánchez Durán

February 02nd 2023

Eugenia Sánchez Durán was born in Murcia, Spain. She started playing piano at age six and now studies with Professors Leonel Morales Alonso and Leo de María at the Alfonso X El Sabio University in Madrid, which she has since 2016.

She has won numerous prizes, including most recently First Prize in the 22nd International Piano Competition “Spanish Composers” (CIPCE) in Las Rozas, Madrid (2022) and Preisträgerkonzert Prize in Internationale Sommerakademie of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg (2022).

She has participated in courses such as the International Masterclass Leonel Morales Granada (2016 to 2021), Internationale Sommerakademie Universitat Morzarteum Salzburg (2017, 2019 and 2022) and Hotchkiss Piano Summer Portals (2018) in Lakeville, CT, USA.  She also has played in masterclasses with Natalia Trull, John Perry, Pavel Gililov, Vincenzo Balzani, Yuri Didenko, Yuri Bogdanov, Fabio Witkowski, Gisele Witkowski, Wu Ying, Andrea Bonata, Frank Fernández, Tensy Krismant and Leonel Morales, among others.

Recently, she was invited to play in the Max-Schlereth Saal at the Salzburg International Festival in August 2022. Moreover, she has played in important halls in Spain and abroad, such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Mozarteum University (Salzburg), Solitär Hall de Salzburg (Austria), Katherine M. Elfers Hall in Hotchkiss School (Lakeville, Connecticut), Cultuurraad Kraainem Saal in Brussels, La Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid), Ateneo (Madrid), and Auditorio Joaquín Rodrigo de Las Rozas (Madrid).

 


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