Almudena Díaz-Llanos Longares, born in Madrid, Spain, is a multifaceted artist excellling as a pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer.

 

Under the alias "Ena Longares," she showcases her original songwriting music and compositions.

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Almudena holds an undergraduate degree in Classical Western Piano Performance from institutions in Conservatory J. Turina in Madrid with Clara Romero Coves and the Upper Conservatory J. Rodrigo Carlos Apellániz in Valencia. She furthered her education by earning a Master's degree in Contemporary Western Performance and Global Production from Berklee College of Music, where she received an 85% scholarship and graduated with Cum Laude honors and had the opportunity to be introduced to Jazz and improvisation with the Maestro Polo Ortí.

 

Since completing her studies, Western Classical, Spanish Music / Flamenco, Jazz, Latin, Arranging composing and Songwriting have been her preferred performance styles, along with various projects as a piano accompanist.

 

Almudena expanded her expertise through specialized studies, including Background Music for Movies (four months, forty hours) with renowned composer Alberto Iglesias, Music Production Pioneer certification with music producer Daniel Trim, Music for Videogames with Oscar Araujo, Konnakol Language with Viveik Ragapolan, and Film Scoring and Orchestral Music Production with Srikantk Krishna.

 

To refine her piano technique in Western classical artistry, she undertook intensive studies in the USA (Utah) with Dr. Hatch (a Grammy nominee and recipient of the Best Piano Teacher award in the USA), in Paris, France with Simona Glavan (Bashkirov alumni), Shai Maestro and in Valencia, Spain with Luca Chiantore, renowed italian musicologist and pianist.  

 

Almudena completed her official internship on the movie "Kadakh" by filmmaker Rajat Kapoor, contributing additional background music and assisting with direction.

 

In her professional life she has worked mainly as pianist-composer (TVF, T-Series, Alliance Français, Museum of Milan, Composer for National School of Drama, Sofar Unplugged (...), and performed in diverse Festivals as Tansen M. F. of Gwalior, IM Festival of Bhopal, I. M. F of Udaipur, Kerala A&C Festival, Fundación BanCaja, Palau Arts, Alliance Francais., Institute Cervantes, (..), as singer she has been part of productions as (Ads, Singer collaborator, Playback Artist, Voice Over Artist) arranger (Series of Concerts Candlelight by Fever) and occasionally lyricist, (Movie Amavas, Series In transition, Palindrome(...))

 

Nowadays, she co-owns and directs Silk Road Studios alongside her partner Satyam, a friendly studio based in Delhi NCR. She is artist-in-residency for the Venue Home Delhi, and from 2021, Almudena is faculty member at the Global Music Institute India.

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