Artists in residence

Asia started her musical career at the age of four at the Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona, she received an honours degree from this institution as well as the Gold Medal Award as a student of Kai Gleusteen. Asia has given recitals around Europe and Asia, and has been awarded the opportunity to perform in halls such as the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the National Theatre in Shanghai, Wigmore Hall, Milton Court and St Martin in the Fields and Buckingham Palace in London, Palau de la Música in Barcelona and Düsseldorf’s Cathedral amongst others.
 

Her musicality has been praised by the audience and her playing has been broadcasted by Dutch radio NPO4, English BBC Radio and Catalunya Música. A keen chamber musician, she has regularly been invited to prestigious festivals such as IMS Prussia Cove in the UK run by Steven Isserlis, or the Ravel Festival in France, with Philippe Graffin.
 

Asia had the pleasure of visiting violin legend Ivry Gitlis in Paris, from whom she received advice on many occasions. She also had the chance to learn from artists such as Eberhard Feltz, Menahem Pressler and Nicholas Angelich among others. She is the co-funder of a piano trio, Trio Casablancas, named after Catalan composer Benet Casablancas, who supports their activities and musical research. Her latest recording collaborations are Daniel Rowland’s CD for Champs Hill UK and an ongoing new collaboration with Amen Discos in Spain in which she explores music outside the frame of classical music.
 

In the last year, focusing on the writing of her own music has lead her to interdisciplinary collaborations as her work in Estació de França in Barcelona last May. In the exploration of new musical and performing possibilities recent collaborations include: Recital Performático in the Experimental Piano Festival of Konvet Zero in Girona, Els Malnascuts for Sala Becket in Barcelona, Antimusikal for El Pumarejo and Kabaret La Pajarería in Barcelona, a collaboration with Lyz Parayzo in Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris, the presentation of a solo violin comission in Heimathafen Neukölln, Berlin, among others.
 

Asia plays a Gennaro Gagliano violin (1740) kindly loaned by a private benefactor.

Afrocolombian transdisciplinary artist, creative producer, curator, and educator working across independent film, audiovisual practices, decolonial approaches to archives, and research-creation. Their practice engages with social justice, ecology, memory, and transfeminist and decolonial perspectives in Abya Yala. They were a 2024 Fellow of The Flaherty Seminar and received a Colombian Ministry of Culture grant for audiovisual archive research. Their credits include line production, assistant direction, consultant in storytelling and co-direction of “La Muñeca Negra”, a participatory stop-motion film selected by FICCI and international Black film festivals. Member and co-founder of the Aflora collective