Lucia's flat, in the Sants neighbourhood, is a small oasis where the sunshine breaks through and seems to come from somewhere else. In the midst of an almost harmonious disorder, she composes and performs her pieces, surrounded by plants and her cats Tofu and Mora. On a music stand I see the score of Radio Rewrite by Steve Reich. She tells me that she is studying this piece to conduct it soon at the Barcelona Auditorium.
With an enviable vitality and a contagious smile, she explains to me how she went to Holland, where she studied world music, perhaps in an unconscious reflex to seek something beyond jazz, which is already part of her DNA. And how she later came back to Barcelona, where she continued studying at the ESMUC, mostly - she explains - to get to know other musicians. And since then she hasn't stopped, playing with the best musicians and composing wonders like her latest album, Universo normal. In her own words, "Universo normal is a door to my imagination. That's why it's normal. And that's why it's a universe. It's a concept that inspires magic, something huge like the universe, but at the same time concentrates on something very basic, rootsy, like folk music. "
Lucia Fumero is a pianist and singer born in Barcelona, with Argentinian and Swiss roots. She began studying classical music at the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona, where she graduated with the Grado Profesional de Música in 2010. She then travelled to Holland to continue studying and working. There, at the Rotterdam University of Music, she studied a higher degree in modern music specialising in Latin music. She is now in her final year at the ESMUC specialising in jazz piano. She has participated as a musician in many different ensembles of different styles and has released her first album with original music. She often collaborates with the new generation of Barcelona musicians such as Rita Payés, Nico Roig, Pol Batller and Martín Meléndez, among others.