The piano is profoundly solitary. You practise alone, and in recital you play alone.
Press
2026
2025
Once you break systems in music, then music is able to exist and breathe.
The playing was sensitive, limpid, full of precision and beauty: a pianism of complete integrity, and often disarming.
Assured at the keyboard, he makes music with the greatest naturalness — concentrated, meticulous, kaleidoscopic.
Cambra played it with notable judgement, a beautiful sound and a fluent line, with a fine command of tension and shading.
Because I am blind, the attention often goes to my sight — yet most pianists play without the score anyway. I always find that funny.
My guide dog usually stays behind in my dressing room during a concert.
2024
Cambra changed tack with Mompou’s Cançons i danses, in a concise reading whose musicality and delicacy earned enthusiastic applause.
The result was eloquent phrasing, full of tension and nuance, and a great expressive force that never fell into banal play with dynamics — all of it at the service of the music.
Print edition, page 40
Read the full review: Otra forma de ver, La Vanguardia (opens in a new tab)Playing of a subtle and delicate kind, admirable in technique and exquisite in musicality.
2023
For me, music is finding freedom in what the composer wrote.
2022
Halfway through the rehearsal, the air-raid sirens started.
On playing with the INSO-Lviv orchestra in wartime Ukraine
Read the full article: «A medio ensayo han empezado a sonar las sirenas antiaéreas», Ara (opens in a new tab)The pianist triumphs with an impeccable approach to Brahms, Scriabin and Chopin.
Difficulties always exist. The challenge is to see them as part of reality.
2021
In the end, art and business are both about facing your own life.
2018
Ignasi Cambra shows great interpretative maturity, with a promising musical future ahead of him.
Pires came on stage accompanied by a musician of whom people speak more, and better, all the time.
2017
Ignasi Cambra made it clear once again that he is one of the indisputable talents of the Spanish piano scene.
The young pianist’s hands glided across the keys, sounding the notes extraordinarily, with impeccable understanding and technique.
2016
The light came with the Concerto in A major no. 23, in the elegant and crystalline performance of the young Catalan pianist Ignasi Cambra.
Listening to Cambra, one has the sense that every concert he gives is better than the last.
Cambra is a deeply musical pianist who plays with exquisite taste, and who commands articulation absolutely.
2015
The affection of a wide-ranging audience backed his commitment, fine technical equipment and interpretative sensibility, at the service of a demanding programme.
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I prefer expressive depth to technical virtuosity.