Sofía Gómez Alberto is a Spanish violinist and violist currently studying for a Master of Performance with Itzhak Rashkovsky and Nathan Braude at the Royal College of Music, where she is an Antonio Brosa Award Holder.
In July 2022, Sofía completed her undergraduate studies at the Royal College of Music with Lutsia Ibragimova and Yuri Zhislin, graduating with First Class Honours. Prior to her studies at the RCM, Sofía studied with Anna-Liisa Bezrodny at the Junior Department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and privately with Valeri Gazarian. Throughout her studies, Sofía has participated in masterclasses with violinists such as Maxim Vengerov, Mari Tampere-Bezrodny, Alina Ibragimova, Tanja Becker-Bender and Valentina Korolkova, and violists such as Nobuko Imai, Wenting Kang and Paul Cortese.
Passionate about chamber music, Sofía has played with various ensembles and performed in festivals such as the Chipping Campden Music Festival, Stamford International Music Festival and Musethica. Also a keen orchestral player, Sofía has taken part in several youth orchestras such as the European Union Youth Orchestra, Joven Orquesta Nacional de España, LGT Young Soloists and the Cuban-European Academy at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. She is also one of the violinists taking part in the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Pathway Scheme for the 2023/2024 academic year.
Sofía was recently awarded 3rd Prize at the 2023 Llanes International Viola Competition. Other prizes include the Viola Prize at the 2022 RCM Viola Competition and the 2018 Lutine Prize (Junior Guildhall).
Sofía plays on a Nicolò Gagliano violin and a Joseph Hill viola, both kindly on loan from the Royal College of Music.
French-Spanish pianist Arthur Di Francesco recently graduated from the Royal College of Music, London with First Class Honours, having studied solo piano with Gordon Fergus-Thompson and collaborative piano with Simon Lepper. He previously studied at the RCM Junior Department with Venezuelan pianist Clara Rodríguez, where he was awarded the Constance Poupard Piano Prize and participated in the Première of the “Spectrum 5” album of pieces commissioned by the ABRSM. A Finalist of the Jaques Samuels Junior Intercollegiate Piano Festival and the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Instrumentalist Prize, he has performed in venues including the Wigmore Hall, the 1901 Arts Club (London), the Elgar Room (Royal Albert Hall) and the Cadogan Hall.
A keen chamber musician, he has performed in various group formations in France, Spain, Germany and the UK and been coached by eminent performers including Alina Ibragimova, Cedric Pescia, Anna-Liisa Bezrodny, Mari Tampere-Bezrodny, Avri Levitan, Emanuelle Bertrand, Niklas Schmidt, Sebastian Schmidt and Ralph Evans. He has previously been selected to participate in the International Mendelssohn Festival Summer School, Hamburg, and Rostock Summer Campus, and was recently chosen to take part in the Notos Piano Quartet Chamber Music Academy 2023, playing alongside members of the ensemble as part of the course.
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