about
Maria del Mar Ribas is a cellist and composer based in Cologne. After completing her cello studies in Spain, she moved to Germany to continue her career as a performer in both professional orchestras and chamber music groups. Among the most important auditoriums where she has performed are the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia and the Berlin Philharmonie. She is also a founding member of L'Arccord with accordionist Jaroslav Irovic, with whom she recorded her first EP City Lights.
In 2021, she released her first solo album Lines with her own compositions, in which she explores non-Eurocentric musical cultures. Among the outstanding new music projects in which she is currently involved are the performances Kunsthalle for Music, Act II by Ari Benjamin Meyers at the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach (DE) and Voices im Labyrinth on Insel Hombroich in Neuss (DE) 2024. Maria del Mar Ribas works actively as a cellist and arranger with the Berlin bands KIND OF DUSK and ANIQO and is a founding member of the Rhenania String Trio.
„Music is the most sincere and profound way I have to communicate. Every new place, every journey, every memory is part of my experience in creating music.“
composition
2022 she finished her Master in Composition at the International University of La Rioja with professors Eneko Vadillo and Zulema de la Cruz, Spain, and received the prize for her thesis with the premiere of one of her works performed by the Sax Ensemble at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes in Madrid. In the same year she releases her Solo Cello Works on LP (Lines) and receives a GEMA grant to participate in the Female Composer Class of the 19_Soundtrack Cologne Festival in Germany. In 2023 her compositions were selected for world premieres at the Festival Du Vert a l'Infini Plucomp (FR) and at the Festival Mixtur (ES) under the direction of Reza Vali and Reiko Yamada.
Her compositions cover a wide range of formations from music for symphony orchestra, choir, string quartet, mixed ensembles with and without piano to solo pieces.
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