Maria Coma
Barcelona 1986.
Composer, pianist and singer.

She has dedicated most of her life to the piano and music, performing with various artists, setting in motion musical projects, recording albums, composing soundtracks, making concerts and finally, initiating her own solo career.

This November 2011, her fourth album is freshly edited under the title “Magnòlia”. The backbone of this piece is the piano, with a more profound, mature and very cinematographic approach, beyond the sole concept of music. Including the video footage (recorded by herself in Super8), the designs, the live performances… All this, followed by three consecutive tours of her previous work: “u_mä”(2007), “Linòleum”(2009) and “Linòleum en concert”(2010).

She began at a very young age, six years old, with classical music, a birthmark in her style. Ten years later she distanced herself from classical music to study modern music and jazz focusing her efforts in singing and the piano. She continued afterwards spending a couple years with maestro Francisco Suárez digging deeper into new points of view in harmony, piano and composition.

In 2006 she self-edited her first demo “_m” (EP) , which was recorded at home. She launched in 2007 a project together with Pau Vallvé, named “u_mä”, with whom she released her first album, u_mä (Error Lo-Fi!, 2007) and also embarked a year and a half long tour, in which they had the great pleasure to be curtain openers of The Silver Mount Zion.

In October 2009 she released her second album, her first solo debut album as Maria Coma, under the title “Linòleum” (Amniòtic Records, 2009). The album has been awarded the Joan Trayté prize as in best catalan production of the year. The “Linòleum” tour went on for more than a year and a half, she preformed 60 concerts. Including performances in “Palau de la Música”, “L’Auditori de Barcelona”, opening for Patrick Watson in sala Bikini, playing at “Parc del Fòrum” during the “CruïllaBCN” festival, at the “(a)phonica” festival and at “l’Auditori del C.A.T. de Gràcia”.

In the Linòleum tour, the songs were interpreted differently than the original album versions, in a trio format, transmitting a much more raw and live sensation: Maria Coma on the piano and voice, together with two great friends and musicians Jordi Lanuza (from Inspira) on the bass and Pau Vallvé on the drums. To immortalize the whole experience and to keep these versions on track she decided to bring out an album of this tour: “Linòleum en Concert” (Amniòtic Records, 2011). And in January 2011, she became part of the band that accompanies Pau Vallvé in his concerts. Playing on the keyboard, the percussions and doing choruses.

During the tour of “Linòleum”, she matured musically into new directions and was composing her latest album, “Magnòlia” (Amniòtic Records, 2011), which came out in November 2011.

The world of arts and cinema are her other passions, and while she was studying modern music and jazz she graduated in Audiovisuals, specialized in scriptwriting and cinema fiction. Even though the past years she has invested a lot of her time in music, she produces some of her music videos and creates designs for her albums and web pages. She has kept close to the cinematographic world thanks to the fact that she often composes soundtracks.

She is now fully committed with “Magnòlia”: making the videos and preparing the tour, in which she will be brining on board musicians that have a great understanding with each other: Pau Vallvé (drums and ambient sounds), Nico Roig (guitars and textures), Jordi Casadesús (double bass and electric bass) and herself with the piano and her voice. She will occasionally be seen also along with the “Brossa Quartet”, the quartet who collaborated in the recording of “Magnòlia”.

The “Magnòlia” tour will start in January 2012!