Nuria Rial‘s musical education began in Catalonia, where she studied Piano, and received the Honour Prize in singing. After that she continued her studies at the Music Academy in Basel with Prof. Kurt Widmer, being awarded with the advanced Diploma in singing. During this time, she received prizes from the Helvetia Patria Jeunesse foundation and from the Pro Europa-European Foundation for Culture. She has appeared as a soloist with a number of the leading ensembles and orchestras in Europe, including Kammerorchester Basel, Il Giardino Armonico, Concerto Köln, Seville Baroque Orchestra, Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, Zürich Chamber Orchestra, and Les Musiciens du Louvre and with conductors, including Rene Jacobs, Giovanni Antonini, Paul Goodwin, Lawrence Cummings, Pierre Cao or Howard Griffiths, among others. As well concerts in major festivals across Europe, performances have taken her as far afield as Bolivia, Mexico, Cuba and Israel. Her work in the field of opera has lead to productions at some of the leading Opera-Houses in Europe, including La Monnaie (Brussels) Staatsoper unter den Linden in Berlin, Theatre des Champes Elisees in Paris and recently the role of Pamina in Mozart‘s Magic Flute the theatre Carlo Felice in Genoa. Her extensive discography includes recordings with Harmonia Mundi France, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi-SonyBMG, Virgin, OEHMS Classics, Mirare, Alpha, ORF Austrian Radio, and Glossa Music. Nuria Rial www.nuriarial.com Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.