RAMÓN GRAU

Pianist and composer born in Úbeda and based in Madrid, Ramón Grau has developed his career as a pianist specializing in Spanish music. In Spain, he has performed at the international festivals of Lucena and Úbeda, in the 16th Cycle of Young Performers – Scherzo Foundation at the Teatros del Canal, in the 23rd RTVE Chamber Music Cycle, at the Teatro de la Zarzuela and at the “Paisajes” festival in Sierra de Gata. His international career includes concerts in the Czech Republic in 2020 with the Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra, at the “Hamburg Dialogues” contemporary music festival in 2023, and in San José, Costa Rica, and Arequipa, Peru, in July and August 2025. In 2021, he recorded the lyrical gala “A Night of Zarzuela” for Gibraltar television. He has collaborated with the Instituto Cervantes in Manila in August 2025 in the project “Zarzuela Viva in Manila”, in partnership with the University of Santo Tomás of Manila.

As a theatrical pianist, he has worked at Teatro Español in Madrid (“La caída de los dioses” in 2011 and “Antigona” in 2013), at Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, where he has been correpetiteur pianist since 2016, in several shows by Enrique Viana (“Luisa Fernanda, ya tengo instagram”; “Don Pablo, ¿con brocha?”; “En la plazuela de Teresa Berganza te espero”; “Un cortao en el cielo” and “Cinco horas con Hilario”) and in “Zarzuela en danza” by Nuria Castejón.

As a composer, his soundtracks for Luis Navarrete’s feature films “The Phantom of the sauna” (2021) and “Calcinación” (2025) are particularly noteworthy. He has composed music for the COMA festival in Madrid (“Introducción y fandango,” 2021) and other ensembles (the Christmas carol “Oro, Incienso y Mirra” and the march “Sentencia de muerte,” among other works), and for the Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra (Concerto for piano and orchestra “Estigio,” premiered in December 2025).

Since 2014, he has formed the “Beethoven Piano Duo” with Sylvia Torán, performing four-hand and two-piano programs in major Spanish venues. He studied at the Madrid Conservatory under Ana Guijarro and at the Liszt Ferenc University in Budapest with Jenö Jandó.