She was born in Girona in 1961. In 1982 she qualified as a teacher of the piano, and later undertook studies in composition and orchestration at the Barcelona Music School with Josep Soler and Carles Guinovart. In 1988 she was awarded a scholarship by the Ministry of Education and Science to further her studies abroad, and she spent the academic year 1988-89 studying with Betsy Jolas in Paris. She also became a member of the Catalan Composers’ Association that year. She took part on three occasions (1991, 1992, and 1995) in the courses arranged by the Centre Acanthes, in Villeneuve lès Avignon (France), and also on three occasions in the International Bartok Seminar in Szombately (Hungary).

In the 1990s she specialised in twentieth-century music themes and languages, she having given many seminars and courses in that field.

She has a deep knowledge of the cobla (traditional Catalan bands), and started composing for coblas in 1980, later contributing to them as a performer on the tenora (Catalan shawm) and as conductor. She has conducted various cobla bands, chief among them the Cobla Sant Jordi, from 1991 to 1993, and the Cobla Juvenil de Bellpuig, which she has been conducting since 1994. Her compositions show her interest in experimentation in the field of the cobla and cobla instruments. Examples of this are her works “Scherzo per a piano i tenora”, “Tres peces amb auguris estel·lars” (Three pieces with stellar omens) for carillon and tenora, and “Eventualment naïf” (Maybe naive) for cobla band. She has also been studying and researching cobla music since 1997, she having worked in conjunction with the publishers Edicions 62 on the work “Història de la música catalana, valenciana i balear” (History of Catalan, Valencian and Balearic-Islands Music), and written “La nissaga dels Serra” (The Serra family line) for the MOS collection of the publishers Edicions SOM.

Among her most prominent compositions in other genres are “Espais hipertròfics” (Hypertrophic spaces - 1991) for chamber ensemble; “La cançó de l’hora de les bruixes” (Song for the witching hour - 1994) on a text by Miquel Desclot, for children’s choir and featuring an experimental nature; and “Lluna, sal, sang i exili” (Moon, salt, blood and exile - 1999), a poetry-and-music production in memory of M. Mercè Marçal.

She has been teaching at the Igualada Music School and the Capellades Music School since 1994, and is working on her doctorate at the University of Barcelona.

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