✨ Concert for Piano and Voice: Sunday, July 28 🎶

On July 28, we had the pleasure of sharing a very special, intimate, and heartwarming concert in a cozy space where I was invited by a friend. It was truly beautiful to share emotions with those who wanted to and were able to come see us, and I am grateful to each and every one of them for being there with us. ❤

I was accompanied on vocals by Mar, as she was in the previous concert at Espacio Ronda, and I hope she continues to join me in future performances. We shared a program featuring solo piano music, piano and voice music, and a few covers.

On another note, on the 24th I was recording again at Carlos’s studio, and I hope to release Solo Piano II in a few months 🤩

Here are some pictures:

Mar y Olga saludando tras la actuación en CC Emilia Pardo Bazán, 28/07/2024. Aura Noctis Mar Cabello actuando en CC Emilia Pardo Bazán, 28/07/2024. Aura Noctis Mar y Olga tras la actuación en CC Emilia Pardo Bazán, 28/07/2024. Aura Noctis Mar y Olga actuando en CC Emilia Pardo Bazán, 28/07/2024. Aura Noctis Olga actuando en CC Emilia Pardo Bazán, 28/07/2024. Aura Noctis

‘Solo Piano’ reviewed in MainlyPiano.com

I’m delighted to announce that ‘Solo Piano’ has just received a wonderful review from Mainlypiano.com! 😍

The review has been written by Kathy Parsons. I think she has made a very perceptive and sensitive analysis of the album’s emotional nuances. For anyone interested, I definitely encourage you to read it, and for those who like piano music, to visit mainlypiano.com regularly.

MainlyPiano.com is the home site of Kathy Parsons, Michael Debbage, and Steve Yip.
It features 3,300+ album reviews of more than 1,180 artists, in addition to 385+ songbook reviews and more than 270 interviews.


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Upcoming new album ‘Solo Piano’

On March 4th, I will release a solo piano album, recorded in the studio of pianist Carlos Marques. These are not new pieces, but rather solo piano versions of songs that I have released over the years, some more recent and others older. It was something I had pending. The last concert I performed this past December was a push that encouraged me to make this decision, as some members of the audience expressed their desire to continue listening to what they had just heard. However, when they search for my music, they find different versions for more instruments and not for solo piano.

So, I asked Carlos to reserve a date for me to record in his studio, and right at the beginning of the year, we were already recording. Carlos is a pianist and composer with a unique style, and you can find his music here. I got to know him through the Madrid Piano Meetups project, where people who love the piano come together.

I will notify through social media and here when it is available. Stay tuned, thank you very much!

Concert at the Ateneo de Madrid – Christmas 2023

On December 13th, I had the opportunity play live at the ‘La Cacharrería’ hall of the ‘Ateneo de Madrid‘. I performed my own compositions, as well as some pieces by Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, Satie, and Prokofiev.

It was a true pleasure to play in such an iconic venue, in such a beautiful hall with an intimate atmosphere enhanced by warm lighting, and above all, accompanied by such a wonderful audience. If the opportunity arises again, I will undoubtedly repeat. I take this chance to express my gratitude to all the people who attended for their presence and support.

I’m sharing some videos and the poster below. The sound was recorded ‘live,’ so the quality is limited:

'Ateneo de Madrid' concert - Christmas 2023

Update to November 2023

If I had waited little longer, I would have let a year pass without updating this… 😅

The highlight of these past months was the concert we performed in April. At the end of this post, I’ll leave some pictures, and here you have a few videos:

As always, it’s an honor for me to be able to count on Carmen on the oboe and Susana on the cello, who create magic with their brilliant performances and build a great combination, both with each other and with the piano. The percussion adds the strength that the music demands at certain moments.

In this concert, Mar Cabello made her debut as a vocalist, and I hope this is the beginning of a long collaboration in the project. From the first minute, there has been a special connection, particularly in some songs like Stay, which seems directly composed for her voice. I hope to have her in future projects, both concerts and recordings. Bea was absent due to COVID and could not collaborate on this occasion.

Additionally, I will soon be offering a solo piano concert at the iconic Ateneo de Madrid, invited by a colleague from the Madrid Piano Meetups association.

As always, I continue to work on new compositions, although at the moment, I don’t have a date for upcoming releases (you can request to be notified if you wish).

Until next time 🙂

New album ‘Hiems Aeterna’ out now

I’m very happy to announce that ‘Hiems Aeterna’ is out now 😀

It’s available on streaming platforms (Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon Music…) and for digital download (Bandcamp). Hard copies will be available [Update: available now!] in Big Cartel. I finally ordered a few copies and hope to receive them within this week.

It contains 12 tracks. Some of them are new compositions and some others are the studio versions of tracks contained in our previous live album En Directo 2015. Some are instrumental and some have vocals, either in English, Spanish or Latin (you can see the lyrics here). Tracklist:

  1. Siberia
  2. Longing for Hope
  3. Drops
  4. Descubre
  5. Dreaming in Darkness
  6. Trisolgy
  7. Sola Dryas
  8. Cracovia
  9. Stay
  10. Changing Moods
  11. Ojos vacíos
  12. Solsticio


You can also see the lyrics and some info about each song in Bandcamp.

I hope you enjoy this release. Thank you very much 🙂

Upcoming news

There’s been a long time without posting any news here. I would like to clarify that I’ve never stopped making music and hopefully I never will. The last post was from 2016 so let’s summarize a bit. Between 2017 and 2021 I could not dedicate time to this project for several reasons, I was finishing my music studies and I had some other personal and work issues I had to focus on that left me no time for anything else.

At the beginning of 2022 the band came together again to perform live in Madrid. It was announced on the Spanish site. The following months after the performance I was working on its video / audio editing. You can watch almost the whole performance in this YouTube playlist. And some pictures below, too.

The following months I focused on composing, recording, producing and mixing songs.

Now I’m very happy to announce that I’m about to release a new album. It’s called Hiems Aeterna (Eternal Winter) and it has been entirely recorded and produced in my home studio. It will contain new compositions and the studio versions of some of the songs contained in our previous live album En Directo 2015.

It will be released on digital platforms (Spotify, Bandcamp, YouTube Music, Amazon Music…) on 30th January 2023. CDs are falling out of use. However, I’m considering producing some hard copies as well, for the people who still prefer CDs and maybe for promotional use. If any of you would be interested in hard copies, I would love to know.

Thanks for reading and stay tuned 🙂

Olga.

Some pictures of our performance on 28 January 2022 (click to full size):