Jordina Millà
pianist
improviser
ComposeR
Jordina Millà, pianist, composer, and improviser, explores free improvised music and contemporary language. Introduced to the world of improvisation by Agustí Fernández, her music is in constant development, moving toward new logics of expression.
She has released acclaimed albums, including Males herbes (solo album), When Forests Dream (a two-piano collaboration with Agustí Fernández), String Fables (a duo with Barry Guy), and Live in Munich on ECM Records.
In 2024, she was nominated for the Best Newcomer award at the Jazz Prize Österreich. She was awarded the Staatsstipendium für Komposition 2025, granted by BMKÖS.
A member of Barry Guy’s The Blue Shroud Band and other formations, she performs with musicians such as Mats Gustafsson, dieb13, Vini Cajado, Maurizio Takara, Gonçalo Almeida, Almut Kühne, Wieland Möller, Kenji Herbert, Lucas Niggli, Axel Dörner, Sofia Labropoulou, Christian Reiner, Lukas König, Camila Nebbia, among others.
She is the founder of PRISMA, an initiative that aims to make the discipline of improvisation more visible in the city of Salzburg.
Albums
Here you will find my latest album along with previous releases. Feel free to listen, explore and enjoy!
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Live in Munich ECM Records · Jordina Millà & Barry Guy
This live recording, from Munich’s Schwere Reiter hall, documents the debut concert performance by the duo of Catalan pianist Jordina Millà and British bassist Barry Guy. Together they they shape fluid, highly detailed music, of ever changing mood, and cast fresh light on the meaning and possibilities…
Projects
Working with different artists opens up new perspectives and sounds.
Press quotes
These quotes and reflections from the press offer glimpses into how my music resonates and the experiences it evokes.
“Powerful, edgy, astonishing, disturbing, but also incredibly beautiful is the music that Millà and Guy.
“Live in Munich”, a lively album that celebrates the moment”
Ulrich Habersetzer
Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Jazzkolumne
“a player of prodigious technical capacity and a fearless improvisational explorer, and her highly creative use of the piano interior opens up new sonic territory, to fascinating result”
Russell Trunk
“Her way of tuning abstraction to sound lyrical is absolutely unique and uncompromising.”
Maciej Lewenstein