Alicia de Larrocha

Alicia de Larrocha was first recognized as a great musical talent by Joaquin Turina, who presented her to the public for the first time when she was 5 years old.  A year later she performed at the Palau de la Musica in her native Barcelona.

Her first orchestral appearance was at age 12 under conductor Fernando Arbos.  She later studied with Frank Marshall, the assistant of Enrique Granados who continued his school of piano playing.

Ms. de Larrocha has been a regular participant at the Great Interpreters series at Lincoln Center in New York, and she has toured worldwide. For her many recordings she has received the Grand Prix du Disque of the Académie Charles Cros in Paris and the Edison Award in Amsterdam as well as Grammy
Awards in 1974, 1975 and 1978.

She also took the German critics' Schallplatten-Preis in 1976. She won the Cervantes Prize of the Jacinto and Inocencio Guerrero Foundation in 1991 and the Principe d'Astoria Prize in 1994. She is a member of the Spanish Academia de Bellas Artes. Alicia de Larrocha holds honorary doctorate degrees from Yale University and the University of Michigan.