Joan Travé
Joan Travé
PIANIST | FORTEPIANIST
About
Pianist and Fortepianist
Lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt
Lecturer at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz
Pianist and Fortepianist
Lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt
Lecturer at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz
Joan Travé is a pianist, fortepianist and lecturer. A versatile musician, he moves effortlessly between historical keyboard instruments and the modern piano. His repertoire spans from the English Renaissance to contemporary music, with a particular focus on historical performance practice.
Born in 1991 in Palma de Mallorca, Joan Travé made his debut as a soloist at the age of 16, performing Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto. Since then, he has given concerts in many European countries, including appearances at the Frankfurt Opera, the Chopin Festival in Valldemossa, the Wiesbaden State Theatre, the FEL!X urban Festival in Cologne, and Frankfurt’s Holzhausenschlösschen. He performs regularly both as a soloist and as a chamber musician.
His encounters with musicians such as Lorenzo Coppola, Eva Maria Pollerus, and Carmen Leoni sparked his passion for historical performance and period instruments. He was particularly influenced by his studies with Jesper Christensen in fortepiano and historical Romantic keyboard instruments.
His special interest lies in the connection between performance and research: in 2011, he presented a study on Chopin’s Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. at the Chopin Museum in Valldemossa. In 2022, he carried out an artistic research project on Carl Czerny’s Pianoforte-Schule, funded by the Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics.
He received his initial training from Lucía Luque, María Jesús Salvà and Ireneusz Jagla. He then studied piano with Miquel Estelrich and Manuel Carra at the Conservatory of the Balearic Islands. At the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, he completed master’s degrees in piano (Prof. Catherine Vickers) and fortepiano (Prof. Jesper Christensen). He also studied piano physiology with Laurent Boullet and historical improvisation and stylistic composition with Michael Koch.
Joan Travé is a fortepiano lecturer at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and a piano lecturer at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz, where he works with both university and pre-college students.
Fortepiano | Historical pianos
Joan Travé is a musician specialized in fortepiano performance, an instrument that offers direct access to the sound world of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Teaching
Joan Travé is a fortepiano lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main and a piano lecturer at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz.
