Born in Tenerife in 1980, she studied in Tenerife, Barcelona and Berlin. She is a pianist and teacher at the Professional Conservatory of Music of Tenerife and holds a doctorate in artistic education (Cum Laude) from the University of Girona. She began her piano studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Tenerife with Concepción Hernández and after finishing the intermediate level with the highest marks, she moved to Barcelona to continue her studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Barcelona with Paula Torrontegui and Miquel Farré. In 2002 she obtained the Higher Diploma in Piano and the Higher Diploma in Solfeggio, Music Theory, Transposition and Accompaniment. Subsequently, she took postgraduate courses at the International Centre for Piano Studies under the direction of Edith Fischer and Jorge Pepi-Alós. In Berlin she continued her studies with Laszlo Simon and in Switzerland, thanks to the scholarship granted by the Cabildo de Tenerife, she regularly participated in the International Piano Course at the Hindemith Foundation with professors Paul Badura-Skoda, Giuseppe Maiorca and Bernd Zack, among others. She also completed a postgraduate course in Cultural Management and Planning at the University of La Laguna and a Master in Cultural Management at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
Esther Ropón has given recitals individually and as part of chamber groups throughout the Canary Islands, in various Spanish cities such as Lleida, Barcelona, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, as well as in Switzerland, Denmark and Sweden, Germany, Japan and Turkey. She has recorded the album 'Mujeres del XXI' which includes works by contemporary Canarian female composers, a work which was presented on a concert tour of Japan, and has participated in the multidisciplinary project 'En el tapete del mar', the result of which was the recording of a book-CD presented on a concert tour of the Canary Islands, Sweden and Turkey with works by Rubens Askenar, Milena Perisic, Laura Vega, Dori Díaz Jerez and Gustavo Trujillo.
Considered by German critics as a "young ambassador of Spanish music", she has developed an extensive concert activity in this country, performing in Hamburg, Stuttgart, Hannover, Leipzig and especially in Berlin. Always open to new challenges, in her eagerness to bring classical music closer to society as a whole, she has worked for Radio Clásica of Radio Nacional de España, where she has directed and presented the music dissemination programme 'La música que nos inspira' (The music that inspires us). She has been invited to give lectures at art education conferences at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
She has recently published, in collaboration with the Auditorio de Tenerife, her third album 'From East to West' with a repertoire centred on chamber music for two pianos of the 20th century.