Alter Face

Alter Face was founded in 2011 with the aim of renewing musical and scenic concepts in the repertoire for piano duos and ensembles. An open attitude towards experimentation has led this ensemble to promote numerous premieres for piano manipulated by two performers, piano and video, or installations by composers such as Alberto Bernal, Iker Güemes, Sami Klemola, Michael Maierhof, Remmy Canedo, Enric Riu, François Rossé, among others.

Its artistic collaborations extend to creators from Europe as well as Latin America, such as Tomás Koljátic. One of the ensemble’s most fruitful collaborations has revolved around Mantra by K. Stockhausen, in the version they created together with Remmy Canedo for the Musik der Jahrhundert festival (Stuttgart) and the 55th Pollença Festival. They have also performed it at the Contemporary Music Festival of the Catholic University of Santiago (Chile) alongside composer and researcher Rodrigo Cádiz, as well as at the MEMMIX Festival.

Since 2014, the duo has been formed by Albert Díaz and Tomeu Moll-Mas, beginning a highly dynamic stage with several premieres and performances at festivals such as Encontre de Compositors, Festival Carmelo Bernaola (Vitoria), Festival de Música Contemporánea de Bilbao, Mixtur (Barcelona), Smash (Salamanca), Unerhörte Musik (Berlin), PHONA (Mallorca), Convent de Sant Agustí (Barcelona), among others.

Albert Díaz and Tomeu Moll-Mas already have an extensive trajectory as performers of both classical and contemporary music, mainly in venues and festivals across Europe and the Americas. As soloists, they premiered Gran Mar, for piano four-hands plus two extra hands (six hands total), electronics and orchestra, with the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra conducted by Zsolg Nagy.