Julia Maria Figueres Heinz

Julia Maria Figueres Heinz
Julia Maria Figueres Heinz is a Spanish pianist born in 2004, currently based in Madrid, where she is pursuing the fourth year of her Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance at the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska under the guidance of Professor Andrey Yaroshinskiy.

She began her musical education at L’Estudi de Música de Tarragona and completed her Professional Music Degree at the Conservatory of Vila-seca, while also attending masterclasses in Valencia with Juan Lago and István Székely.
She has further refined her artistic training with renowned musicians such as Edith Fischer, Karst de Jong, Francisco Fierro, Andreas Fröhlich, Francesco Mirabella, Murray McLachlan, and Yoshio Hamano, among others.
Her career has been recognized with numerous international awards. These include the First Prize at the Franz Liszt Center International Piano Competition (2023) and the Great Masters International Competition – Vladimir Horowitz Edition (2021); the Second Prize at the Great Piano Masters International Online Piano Competition (2023), the Golden Piano Talents International Competition (2022), the II FIPMA – Villahermosa International Piano Competition (2021), the Scherzo International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv (2022), and the Seville Piano Competition (2019). She was also awarded the Third Prize at the Excellence Piano Awards (2022) and received an Honourable Mention at the Orbetello Piano Competition in Italy (2023). In 2022, she was granted the prestigious Ferrer-Salat Foundation Scholarship for young talents.
As a performer, she has given recitals at important international venues. She has appeared as a soloist at the Washington International Piano Festival at The Kennedy Center (USA), as well as in cities such as Brescia (Italy, 2019 and 2023), Barcelona (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi), Madrid (Museum of Romanticism, Russian House, Teatro Tribueñe), Soria, León (Fundación Eutherpe Hall), Tortosa, Requena, Vila-seca, Altura, Benaguasil, Montserrat, and Telki (Hungary), among others. She has also performed with orchestra, notably at the Aula Magna “Tirso de Molina” in Soria.
She forms a piano duo with pianist Ferran Mir, with whom she has performed concerts at La Granja de San Ildefonso(Segovia) and at the Auditorium of Centro Superior Katarina Gurska (Madrid). In addition to her career as a concert pianist, she collaborates with singers and instrumentalists as an accompanist pianist.