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Montserrat Torrent i Serra (born 17 April 1926) is a Spanish organist.
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Montserrat Torrent i Serra (born 17 April 1926) is a Spanish organist.
Born in Barcelona in 1926, she started her musical studies as a pianist with her mother who was pupil of Enrique Granados. She studied under Frank Marshall (1883-1959) at the Academia Marshall in Barcelona, [1] and also attended the Conservatorio Superior Municipal de Música de Barcelona.
Later, she studied in París (with Noëlie Pierront), thanks to a scholarship grant from Institut Français; and in Siena (with Ferdinando Germani and Helmuth Rilling), granted by Fundación Juan March.
Torrent was later appointed as organ teacher at Conservatorio Municipal de Barcelona. [2] She started her career performing in Europe, United States of America and South America, focusing on the organ as a popular music instrument.
In 1962, she founded the Organ Friends Association (Associació d'Amics de l'Orgue), with the aim of publicizing organ music and preserving historic organs in Spain. She also worked together with Ars Musicae de Barcelona, a group of pioneers of early music and period performance of Spanish and European music.
Montserrat Torrent has been awarded with the following distinctions:
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