Artists

Born in Castro Urdiales (Cantabria Region), in 2006 Carmen Santamaría entered the Higher School of Music of the Basque Country (Musikene), specialising in chamber music. With grants from the Cantabrian and Hungarian governments, in 2011 she travelled to Budapest, where she became a part-time student of piano and chamber music, and in 2013 she began her master’s degree studies in Interpretation. In 2015, Carmen took a master’s degree in Lied at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC), where she collaborated as a pianist from 2016 to 2018. Since 2011, Carmen Santamaría has performed in various venues in Budapest, Barcelona, Alicante, Tarragona, Galicia, Mexico City, Bilbao, Santander and León, as well as in the LIFE Victoria, Aurora (Stockholm) and Talent Barcelona festivals. Likewise, since 2018 she has collaborated with the visual artist Inés García on the projects Winterreise and Sis cançons populars muntanyeses. She forms a duo with the soprano Mireia Tarragó.