Alba Ventura made her solo debut at the age of thirteen with the Cadaqués Orchestra and Sir N. Marriner at the National Music Auditorium. Since then, her career has continued to flourish, with invitations to perform at Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, the Concertgebouw, the Musikverein, and the Cité de la Musique, among others. Her work has also taken her to the United States, Colombia, Argentina, New Zealand, and China. She has been conducted by prominent figures such as Antonini, Diakun, Harth-Bedoya, Hogwood, Mas, Mena, Pons, Oué, Ros Marbà, and Vásary, and has collaborated with orchestras such as the Philharmonia, Hallé, London Mozart Players, Czech National Symphony, and the main Spanish orchestras.
Alba is also a dedicated chamber musician, and has performed with the Brodsky, Takacs, and Casals quartets, pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja, violinists Boris Belkin, Francisco Fullana, Gordan Nikolic, Leticia Moreno, Tai Murray, and Lina Tur Bonet, as well as violist Isabel Villanueva.
Among the distinctions she has received are the Queen Elizabeth Rose Bowl, winning the YCAT auditions, the ECHO Rising Stars program, and the IMPULSA Award from the Prince of Girona Foundation.
Her latest recordings are dedicated to Rachmaninoff and the Études, a selection of twenty studies ranging from Czerny to Rautavaara. In 2019, Alba Ventura embarked on the recording of Mozart’s complete Piano Sonatas, with the first volume, consisting of two CD, released in March 2020. In June 2023, the album *Spanish Light* was released, in collaboration with violinist Francisco Fullana.
Alba Ventura is a full professor at the Liceu Conservatory and director of the Marshall Academy, which was once led by Alicia de Larrocha.