Carmen Sánchez Labrador

Born in Madrid in 2002, Carmen Sánchez Labrador began playing the piano at the age of four. At six, she was admitted to the Conservatorio Profesional de Música Arturo Soria, where she studied until 2018. She then entered the Purcell School of Music in London. In 2020, she moved to the Netherlands to study with David Kuyken at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where she earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

Carmen has performed at Wigmore Hall, the Southbank Centre, Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional de Música and Milton Court, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. In 2023, she made her orchestral solo debut with the Conservatorium van Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra at Philharmonie Haarlem. The following year, she performed with the Goois Symfonie Orkest at the Muziekcentrum van de Omroep. Her work in the Netherlands also includes contemporary music projects, among them premieres and professional recordings of works that had been lost during the Second World War.

She won First Prize at the EPTA Spain Piano Competition in 2016 and at the Verão Clássico Festival & Academy in 2024, and reached the semi-finals of the Prinses Christina Concours in 2022. From 2021 to 2023, she received multi-year scholarships from the Community of Madrid in support of her musical development and career.

Between 2023 and 2025, she studied with Boris Berman over several sessions at the Accademia del Ridotto. She has also attended masterclasses, academies and festivals, including the Edwin Fischer Sommerakademie and the Óbidos International Piano Festival, where she benefited from the guidance of pianists such as Eldar Nebolsin, Alexander Kandelaki and James Giles.

In 2026, Carmen Sánchez Labrador joined the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel as an Artist in residence, under the direction of Frank Braley and Avedis Kouyoumdjian.

Last updated: 2 October 2026