Alaia Ferran
Baroque viola
Alaia began her studies at the age of seven in Bilbao, her hometown. She studied at the CSMA (Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón), with Rolando Prusak and Enrique Palomares, while regularly receiving master classes from Nicolás Chumachenco. Likewise, she attended chamber music sessions with the prestigious Casals Quartet and Quiroga Quartet, as well as with Humberto Armas and Kennedy Moretti. She then continued to receive lessons with Manuel Solans, while also taking viola studies with Humberto Armas.
Subsequently, she finished her master studies in the early music and historical performance with Emilio Moreno in Barcelona, and completed her studies in this same field with Ryo Terakado at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague —where she currently resides.
Throughout her training, Alaia has also received lessons from Heriberto Fonseca (IEA Oriol Martorell), Rafael Dengra, Charles Courant, and has taken part in master classes with different artists such as Ala Voronkova, Kai Gleusteen or Solange Dessane.
In the field of historical performance, she has collaborated with groups such as the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Les Concerts des Nations, Holland Baroque Orchestra, Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Theresia Youth Orchestra and Jeune Orchestre Atlantique, having the opportunity to work with conductors such as Philippe Herreweghe, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Ivan Fischer, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Jordi Savall, Chiara Banchini and Alfredo Bernardini, among others.