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Luisa Morales is a performer of the harpsichord and fortepiano, and a scholar promoting meaningful discourse between musicology and performance. Morales is particularly active in reviving eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century keyboard music, incorporating theatre and dance historical performance practices to her musical discourse. As Artistic Director and founder of the celebrated FIMTE –Spanish Keyboard Music Festival- she has promoted the research, publication and performance of that rich heritage around the world.

She has given concerts in Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, Central and South America and has lectured invited by the universities of Edinburgh, Duke, South Dakota, Melbourne, Monash, Costa Rica, Bogotá and Lleida, among others.

Morales studied harpsichord and fortepiano with Rafael Puyana in Paris and with Ton Koopman in the Sweelinck Amsterdam Conservatory and The Royal Conservatory Den Haag.

In 2019, she received her doctorate in Music at the University of Melbourne with the thesis "Domenico Scarlatti's construction of a Spanish style". Luisa has been awarded the MCM Director's Writing-Up Award Scholarship for Exceptional Doctoral Research (2018).

Currently, she is associated professor at the University of Lleida and the University Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

She is a member of the Sociedad Española de Musicología, the Federación Española de Asociaciones de Folklore, the Musicological Society of Australia and the Association of Spanish Researchers in Australia-Pacific.

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Major Recorded Solo works

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  • “Cantabile - Domenico Scarlatti”, 2021 (Ferrini combined harpsichord-pianoforte, 1746)

  • “Soler and Scarlatti in London”. 2005. (Kirkman harpsichord, 1775)

  • “Música Sorprendente del MM de San Pedro de las Dueñas” 1996

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Workshops as Instructor (selection)
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·      Conservatorio di Musica Giovan Battista Martini, Bologna. Masterclass: Domenio Scarlatti (forthcoming 2022)

· Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá March 2020. Sainete El Prioste de los Gitanos, Antonio Guerrero (1754), workshop with musicians, actors and staff in preparation for the Colombian production .

·      Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University September 2014, 2 hours Early Keyboard Music Workshop (piano and harpsichord; works by J.S. Bach and W. Mozart)

·      Duke University, Arts and Sciences Department, 1-7 June 2014, 25 hours workshop, harpsichord teacher, course on Spanish keyboard music (16th to 18th centuries).

·      Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney, October 27, 2013, 6 hours. Workshop on Spanish keyboard music and dance. Works by D. Scarlatti.

·      Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne, October 2013, 4 hours workshop, Early music workshop at the Early Music Studio. Works by J.S. Bach and Baroque French composers.

·      Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá. Facultad de Artes y Humanidades. Departamento de Música, March 2011, 8 hours workshop on Spanish Keyboard Music (piano and harpsichord).

·   International Courses “Diego Fernández”. FIMTE, International Festival of Spanisg Keyboard Music.Keyboard instructor, 2000- to the present (Barcelona and Almería)

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Selected Publications

 

Peer Reviewed

Articles:

  • (2021, in press): “Ángeles y anónimas: la profesión de monja música y sus límites espacio-sonoros en conventos y monasterios femeninos castellanos (siglos XVI a XVIII)”, Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro, vol. 9, nº 2.

  •  (2020): “Bailando Domenico Scarlatti en Barcelona en el período de preguerra civil”, Marco Moiraghi (ed.), Cedere il passo al sogno» l’esperienza musicale di Emilia Fadini. Studi e contributi, Librería Musicale Italiana.

  •  (2019): “Domenico Scarlatti, Enrique Granados y el clave: la recuperación de los sonidos históricos en Barcelona (1880-1900)” Revista de Musicología.

  •  (2006): “Nun Keyboardists: Keyboard Music in the Female Monasteries and Convents of Spain, Portugal and the New World”, Eighteenth Century Music, vol. 3, no 1, 190-191.

  •  (2005): “Dances in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Keyboard Music”, Diagonal, Journal of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music, University of California, Riverside.

Chapter Books:

  • (2020): “Granados’s Majismo and Early Music in Fin-de-siècle Barcelona”, in Granados in context: The Spanish Piano school and Pre-war Artistic movements, L. Morales, M. Christoforidis; W. Clark (eds.), Almería: FIMTE (Studies on Spanish Keyboard Music 6).

  • (2020): “Bailando Domenico Scarlatti en Barcelona en el período de preguerra civil”, Marco Moiraghi (ed.), Cedere il passo al sogno» l’esperienza musicale di Emilia Fadini. Studi e contributi, Librería Musicale Italiana.

  • (2018): “European contexts: France, Italy, Spain”, Sarah Day-O’Conell and Caryl Clark (eds.), The Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia. New York: Cambridge University Press.


  • (2016): “Understanding Domenico Scarlatti’s ‘Spanish Style’. A new perspective from contemporary practices in Madrid’s theatre”. In The Early Keyboard Sonata in Italy and Beyond, ed. Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. (Studies on Italian Music History, 10), 297-322.

  •     (2016): “The Musical context of Antoni Soler as escolà in Montserrat”. In New Perspectives on the keyboard works of Antonio Soler, (eds.) Luisa Morales; Michael Latcham. Almería: FIMTE, 2016 (Studies on Spanish Keyboard Music, 5)

  •  (2014): “Diego Fernández Caparrós”, Laurence Libin (ed.), Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press.


  • (2014): “Tadeo Tornel Torres”, Laurence Libin (ed.), Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press.

 

Books:

  • (2020): & M. Christoforidis; W. Clark: Enrique Granados in context: The Spanish Piano school and Pre-war Artistic movements. FIMTE Series. Studies on Spanish Keyboard Music, 6.

  • (2016): &M. Latcham, New Perspectives on the keyboard works of Antonio Soler. Barcelona: FIMTE.

  •  (2011): Keyboard Music in the Female Monasteries of Spain, Portugal and the New World. Almería: LEAL

  • (2011): “Women in music: Exhibition Catalogue. Almería: LEAL

  • (2010): &Walter Clark, Pre-Iberia: from Masarnau to Albéniz. Almería: LEAL

  • (2009): Domenico Scarlatti in Spain. Almería: LEAL


  • (2007): Five Centuries of Spanish Keyboard Music. Almería: LEAL

  • (2003): Claves y pianos españoles: Interpretación y Repertorio hasta 1830, Instituto de Estudios Almerienses

  •  (1997): Obras para tecla del siglo XVIII, Institución Fernando el Católico

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Musical Performances (a selected list of relevant concerts as soloist and conductor)
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  • -Sainete El Prioste de los Gitanos (Antonio Guerrero, 1754). First performance in modern times.  Artistic director and conductor. Auditorio de Vera (Almería), April 2019

  • -Domenico Scarlatti and Friends. Parador Nacional de Mojácar, June 2019

  • - Echoes of Spain. Melba Hall, Melbourne MCM December 2018

  • An Entertainment for Prince Gabriel, Edinburgh Saint Cecilia’s Hall, Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments, 2 harpsichords concert with Carole Cerasi, December 2017

  • “Rameau vs. Scarlatti”, Sala d’Actes del Rectorat Universitat de Lleida, solo harpsichord concert, December 2017.

  •  “Boleros, Seguidillas y Fandangos” Teatro Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Bogotá, harpsichord concert with dancer Cristóbal Salvador, August 2016.

  •  “Domenico Scarlatti and Antonio Soler”, San Colombano Historical Collection, Bologna Tagliavini Historical Collection, concert, June  2016.

  • Melbourne Recital Centre, Solo Series March 3, 2016

  • National Gallery, Melbourne Victoria, August 2015

  • Melba Hall, Melbourne Conservatory of Music, September 11 2014

  • FIMTE Festival, Almeria, August 2014

  • Nelson Music Hall, Duke University, June 2014

  • National Music Museum, Vermillion May 2014

  • Universidad Juan Carlos I, Madrid, March 2013

  • University of Riverside, UCLA, January 2013

  • Festival of Ballarat, Australia January 2013

  • XII Festival Internacional de Música de Tecla Española, Almería October 2012

  • Instituto Cervantes, Rabat, January 2011

  • Colegio Español, Tánger, January 2011

  • 2nd Festival de Musica Antigua, Costa Rica.

  • June, 2008. University of Costa Rica 

  • 35th American Musical Instrument Society AMIS Annual Meeting

  • May 2006: National Music Museum, Vermillion, SD. Harpsichord and Dance recital with dancer Cristobal Salvador. 

  • Harmoniques, Rencontres Internationales de Lausanne, Switzerland. 

  • February 2006: Stein vis-à-vis pianoforte and harpsichord recital with Miklós Spanyi. Concertos by Antonio Soler.

  • University of Edinburgh, Russell Collection. Concert Series.

  • January, 2006: Solo recital on a historic 18th century pedal harpsichord.

  • 5th International Organ Festival Oaxaca, Mexico

  • November, 2005: Harpsichord and Dance recital with dancer, Cristobal Salvador. 

  • The Georgian Concert Society

  • March 2004: Harpsichord and Dance recital with dancer, Cristobal Salvador. 

  • Historical Keyboard Society First Combined National Meeting

  • National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota, 2003: Harpsichord and Dance recital with dancer, Cristobal Salvador. 

  • Concerts in Toronto and Berkeley under the sponsorship of the Spanish Embassy.

  • October 1997: Harpsichord Recitals.

  • Concert Tour of Chile under the sponsorship of the Spanish Embassy

  • December, 1992: Harpsichord recitals in Santiago, Los Angeles, Puerto Mont, Iquique (Chili).

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Selected Lectures
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  • Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. December 2020. "Debates sobre Domenico Scarlatti: del sueño Alhambrista al Flamenco Barroco.

  • Portingaloise-Festival Internacional de Danças e Músicas Antigas, Lisbon September 2020, Guest lecture “Tracing Domenico Scarlatti’s Spanish Style in Entr’acte Theatre and Dance.

  • Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá. March 2020, Guest lecture “Domenico Scarlatti y la construcción de un estilo español”.

  • Institut Milà i Fontanals, CSIC Barcelona. October 2019, Guest lecture, “Scarlatti Digital: hacia un repositorio onine de las fuentes del siglo XVIII de las sonatas de Scarlatti y su análisis con Optical Music Recognition (OMR)”, as part of the International Conference Music, Heritage and Society in the Age of Digital Humanities.

  • Fundación Juan March, Madrid, January 2019, Guest lecture, “The Origins of Early Music in Barcelona”, as part of the International Conference, El Origen de la Early Music

  • University of Pavia, Cremona, July 2018 “Debates on Domenico Scarlatti Spanish Style”, as part of the 18th Biennal International Conference on Baroque Musique

  • Tokyo University of Arts, March  2017 “Domenico Scarlatti’s ‘Spanish Style’ and the influence of Madrid’s theatre entr’actes”, as part of the 20th Congress of the International Musicological Society.

  • University of Adelaide, Australia, December 2016, Guest lecture, “Rethinking Domenico Scarlatti’s ‘Spanish Style’”, as part of the conference: Shifts and Turns: Moving Music, Musicians and Ideas.

  • University of Toronto, November 2014. Guest lecture on “Sonatas-bolero by Domenico Scarlatti”.

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