Acclaimed as a highly expressive performer, who plays with profound sensitivity, Pilar Guarné has been invited to perform at renowned national and international venues, such as L'Auditori and the Palau de la Música (Barcelona), the Fundación Juan March (Madrid), Théâtre de Beaulieu and Salle Paderewski (Lausanne), the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices (Geneva), the Yehudi Menuhin Forum (Bern), the Palais des Congrès Dbayeh, the Bâtiment Wafic Rida Saïd (Beirut) and the Ateneul Roman (Bucharest).
She has performed as a soloist with orchestras, such as the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Regală, the Empordà Chamber Orchestra, the Vic Chamber Orchestra and Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra University Orchestra, among others, collaborating with conductors such as Jordi Mora, Diego Miguel-Urzanqui, Pierre Vallet and Walid Moussalem. With a deep interest in chamber music, she regularly gives concerts with various chamber ensembles, notably her work with the Neroli Trio and the Clara Schumann Ensemble. She has recorded for Radio Nacional de España, Ràdio Catalunya Música, Aragón TV, BTV, Télé Liban and Trinitas Tv.
A meeting with the pianist Elizabeth Sombart in 2006, led to her being appointed head of the Fondation Résonnance (Switzerland) in Spain, a role she held until 2022. During these years, she has focused her career as a pianist on forging links between the artistic and social spheres. Thanks to the support of organisations such as the Ariane de Rothschild Foundation, she has given more than five hundred concerts in specialised centres across the country (prisons, hospitals, care homes, etc.) with the aim of making classical music available to everyone but with a particular focus on those in socially vulnerable situations. She also develops and promotes educational projects, recitals with commentary and multidisciplinary arts projects, such as Suite Babech, Song and Dance in Classical Music, Musical Gifts and Dialogues with Lorca.
Committed to teaching, and in particular to research and the dissemination of the phenomenology of music, she was a member of the teaching staff at the Fondation Résonnance Music Academy in Switzerland and Italy until 2022. Since then, she has worked as a piano teacher and accompanist at institutions in Barcelona such as the Fundació Conservatori Superior del Liceu, l'EMM Sant Andreu - Mestre Pich Santasusana, the Conservatori Municipal de Música and the Institut d'Ensenyaments Artístics Oriol Martorell. She has also taken part as a chamber music teacher and accompanist at international academies such as the Plage musicale Festival-Academy in Belle-Île-en-Mer (France).
Pilar Guarné, who now lives in Barcelona, began playing piano at the age of ten in her hometown of Monzón (Huesca). She obtained a scholarship from the Barcelona Municipal Superior Conservatory of Music (Prof. Carmen Vilá Fassier) to study for a piano performance degree, subsequently going on to complete a master’s degree in Musical Interpretation and Research (VIU), graduating with distinction. Throughout the course of her career, she has benefitted from the tutorage of renowned artists, such as Paul Badura-Skoda, Carmen Bravo, Almudena Cano, Elizabeth Sombart, Brenno Ambrosini, Jordi Mora, Alfred Herzog, Cristina Bruno and Alan Weiss.