Elsa Muñiz Hermo
Pianist, Teacher, and Composer
She has been showing interest in music since childhood, and at the age of six, she began taking piano lessons. She has built her musical career in Galicia (Spain) and abroad at various music schools and universities. In Galicia, she studied Elementary and Professional levels in piano for 10 years. Later, she completed her Higher Studies in Piano at the Higher Conservatory of Vigo and at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. At the latter, she expanded her pianistic career with Postgraduate Studies.
The enjoyment of teaching and pedagogy also began in her childhood. This is why she decided to combine her musical studies and her pedagogical education at the University of Santiago de Compostela through the Degree in Primary Education Teaching, with specific training in Music Education and English.
Musical composition has played a very important role in Elsa’s career for almost her entire life. She composed her first song when she was 8 and performed one of her pieces for an audience when she was only 10 years old. All these years of training in teaching and classical piano are combined with her passion for writing songs and pieces, especially instrumental piano pieces. At the end of 2018, she published her first album, Memories, with which she created a new concept within classical music: «pianotelling,” that is, instrumental music for piano that brings autobiographical micro-stories to life. Thus, it aims to bring instrumental music of a predominantly classical genre to the general public, making it more accessible and adding a fundamental didactic and pedagogical component.