Olivia Pérez-Collellmir

Olivia Pérez Collellmir is a pianist and composer from Barcelona, Spain. Noted in Arts Fuse as a “Spanish virtuoso” who adds “a flamenco touch to her chamber jazz.” She started playing piano at the age of five, entered The Superior Conservatory of Music in Barcelona at the age of 8 and was selected to play at the Centre de Musique Hindemith, Switzerland.

After receiving bachelor’s degrees in classical performance from the Conservatori Superior de Música de Barcelona and philosophy from the University of Barcelona, she became the head of music for the Department of Education of Catalonia. In 2014, she received a full scholarship from Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she moved, to expand her studies within the idioms of jazz and multicultural music, arrangements, orchestrations and conducting. 

She is now a faculty member at Berklee College of Music in the piano department. Her first full album featuring her original music will be released in the fall of 2023.