Born in Barcelona, Alba Ventura debuted as a concert soloist when she was 13 years old with the Cadaqués Orchestra conducted by Sir N. Marriner in San Sebastian and at the National Music Auditorium in Madrid. Her career as a soloist has flourished since then, with invitations to perform at venues such as the Wigmore Hall, the Barbican and St. Martin in the Fields church, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Musikverein Vienna, the Cité de la Musique in Paris and the Svetlanovsky Hall in Moscow, among others. She has also performed at the most important concert halls in Spain, as well as in Bogota and Auckland. She has performed with conductors such as Antonini, Harth-Bedoya, Hogwood, Mas, Pons, Oue, Ros Marbà and Vásary. She has collaborated with prestigious orchestras and chamber music ensembles, such as the Philharmonia and Hallé orchestras, the Hungarian National Philharmonic, the Czech National Symphony, the leading Spanish orchestras and the Brodsky, Takacs and Casals quartets.
The 2013-14 season saw her successful debut in China, where she gave recitals at important Shanghai, Peking and Guangzhou venues. She has also performed in the United States, where she was a guest artist invited by the Fryderyk Chopin Society of Connecticut. She also gave a master class at the Hartt School and sat on the Chopin International Piano Competition jury. Among her more recent performances, she gave recitals in the United Kingdom, at the National Music Auditorium, the Palau de la Música Catalana and the Festival of Granada, as well as performing concertos with orchestras such as the London Mozart Players and the symphonic orchestras in Barcelona, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu and in Castile and León.
She began her studies with Silvia Llanas and enrolled at the Marshall Academy, where she received instruction from Carlota Garriga and attended master classes of Alicia de Larrocha. When she was 11, she received a grant to study with Dimitri Bashkirov at the Reina Sofía Higher School of Music. After auditioning in Berlin, Vladimir Ashkenazy oversaw her musical education, becoming her tutor and organising her studies with Irina Zaritskaya at the Purcell School in London and subsequently at the Royal College of Music. She has attended master classes with Nikita Magalof, Maria Joao Pires, and Radu Lupu.
Alba Ventura won the international auditions of the Young Concert Artist Trust (YCAT) and, during the 2009-10 season, was chosen for the Rising Stars programme promoted by ECHO (European Concert Halls Organisation). She recently won the IMPULSA award of the Prince of Girona Foundation. Her previous recordings, particularly those dedicated to Rachmaninov, were met with high praise from critics.
Alba Ventura is also a professor at the Liceu Higher Conservatory of Music in Barcelona.