Jordina Milla

Spain
Year of starting to practice
2003
Year of starting to teach
2015

Jordina Millà is a catalan - German based - pianist and improviser. She has a solid background in classical music. After her studies in CODARTS University of Arts if Rotterdam (BA In classic piano and MA In piano performance) her interest and development went towards free improvised music. She has a passionate relationship with improvisation and works regularly with interdisciplinar projects, specially with contemporary dance companies and creators. During the lasts years has been collaborating with the Doctor Alonso Dance Company, with the dancers and choreographers Iris Heitzinger, Natàlia Jimenez, Sònia Sánchez and CieLaroque company among others. She has performed with a number of international music representatives of the improvisation European scene. In spring 2018 she debuted with her Solo album “Males herbes” that had a beautiful impact on the passionates and crítics of that gender of music. “When forests dream” a two pianos Album with Agustí Fernández, has been awarded by Enderrock de les Illes Balears, for the best Jazz album 2020. Recently she released “String Fables” a duo album with the doublebassist Barry Guy (2022). Jordina has been practicing Contact Improvisation for more than a decade and she is constantly amused by discovering the unseen bridges between those artistical practices. She is interested in musical expression outside of the so called traditional legacy, dissolving borders through her own musical language that use extended piano technics to stimulate sound and research different musical logics.

Significant teachers
Berry Guy