De Toonzaal 's-Hertogenbosch, Strijp-S Eindhoven, De Regentes The Hague, Corrosia Almere, Museum Van Bommel Van Dam Venlo, Theater aan het Vrijthof Maastricht, Museum De Pont Tilburg, Schiller Theater Utrecht, Bimhuis, Amsterdam, German Embassy The Hague, Uilenburger Synagogue Amsterdam, De Rustbak Almere, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, De Brakke Grond Amsterdam, Kunsthuis 13 Velp, Plaza Futura Eindhoven, Uitmarkt Amsterdam, Glockenhaus Lüneburg, UCK Domplein Utrecht, Provadja Alkmaar, Conservatorio de Cuenca, Convento de Santo Domingo Lanzarote, Theater Nieuwe de la Mar Amsterdam, Artoteek Oost Amsterdam, Hogar Canario Madrid, De Ijsbreker Amsterdam, L'Escale Illzach, Kasteel Nijenrode Breukelen, Teatro Guimerá Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Círculo de Bellas Artes Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Auditorio Tomás Luis de Victoria Madrid, Teatro del Círculo de Amistad XII de Enero Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Auditorio López Torres Madrid, Wester-Amstel Amsterdam, Theater Pepijn The Hague, Johannes de Doperkerk s-Heer Abtskerke, Pompoen Theater Amsterdam, Stadsdeelkantoor Oud Zuid Amsterdam, Proust Amsterdam, The Spanish Institute New York, Ayuntamiento del Puerto de la Cruz Tenerife, Ignatiushuis Amsterdam, Kitsch & Kunst Rotterdam, Mazars Utrecht, Intro in Situ Maastricht, Stedelijk Museum CS Sandberg Zaal Amsterdam, Biblioteca Musical del Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Philharmonie Haarlem, Ateneo de La Laguna Tenerife, Singelkerk Amsterdam, Internationale School voor Wijsbegeerte Leusden, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Museum Jan Cunen Oss, Onder de Linden Middenbeemster.
THE CHAMELEONIC PIANIST
Piano, Electronics, Graphic Scores, Theatrical Elements, and Visual Music
Sonsoles gave a recital during the Randspiele Festival that fully convinced me. Her performance of my ‘Dialog Imaginär 2’ for piano and tape was brilliant. Her timing perfect
Sonsoles Alonso is a brilliant musician who propels the pianistic dimension into the future. Working with her towards the creation of new musical dimensions is a true pleasure
Performing with Sonsoles is sheer joy, the passion that she imparts in her playing is contagious
Sonsoles’ playing is pure musical intelligence and technical sovereignty
Chameleonic
Sonsoles is one of the great performers of my work
Engaged, versatile, intelligent and precise. Excellent dialogue with the electronics
Working with Sonsoles, there’s an instant chemistry.
COLLABORATIONS AND PRODUCTIONS
HEARD DURING
OTHER VENUES
PIECES WRITTEN FOR HER BY
Peter Adriaansz, Toek Numan, Chiel Meijering, Kasia Glowicka, Marko Ciciliani, Jorrit Dijkstra, Calliope Tsoupaki, Jorrit Tamminga, Riccardo Massari Spiritini, Zlatko Baracksai, Ben Wallet, Matthijs Janssens and Dietrich Eichmann.
ALBUMS AND TRACKS
LIVE PERFORMANCES
ABOUT SONSOLES
Spanish-born, Netherlands-based Sonsoles Alonso is so very much more than just a versatile pianist. Emerging as a major voice in the contemporary piano and live electronics formats, Sonsoles effortlessly mixes techniques, improvises and crosses domains with such unflinching zeal that she has managed to do away with all restrictions on her creative output.
Influenced by her teachers Anthony de Mare and Morton Feldman’s disciple Nils Vigeland, Sonsoles moved to Amsterdam after earning her master’s degree in New York to specialize in the interpretation of contemporary music as a soloist and also as a member of various ensembles.
It has been said of her, “ The highest point of the evening was Luigi Nono’s ‘Sofferte onde Serene’, played formidably by pianist Sonsoles Alonso… ….Alonso brought forth thunder from the most deep and profound caverns of the piano.”
Sonsoles holds degrees in Classical Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Madrid (BM) and the Manhattan School of Music (MM) in New York. She also studied privately with Vitalij Margulis in Freiburg (Germany) and with Philip Kawin in New York. At the Conservatory of Amsterdam she studied ‘Contemporary Music through Non-Western Techniques’ focusing on rhythmic complexity.
Her popular lectures and masterclasses on the subjects of contemporary music, live electronics and graphic score composition have brought her to universities and conservatories all around Europe including the HKU in The Netherlands and the Lüneburg University in Germany.