Catalina Pires

Catalina Pires, born on Dec.16, 2003, presented her outstanding talent very early. At the age of 6 years, she obtained her first violin lessons. It did not take long before she grabbed the audience’s and critics attention. Due to her intuitive musical talent, she quickly began to replay the pieces that she learned on the violin on other instruments, and discovered her enthusiasm for the guitar. Since 2011, Catalina was guitar student of Walter Abt in Munich and has since then performed at numerous prestigious guitar festivals and charity concerts. She won several special prizes at her first international guitar competition as the youngest participant. Due to her musical diversity and extraordinary combination of the two strings instruments, she has won numerous other prestigious awards, including exclusively first prizes at the German Youth competition Jugend Musiziert. She won the second prize at the Michele Pittaluga International Guitar and Composition Competitions "Premio Citta di Alessandria" in 2025. Along with her exceptional musical language, she captivates her audience again and again at various concert performances, reaping wide acclaim and rave reviews. Her first CD YOUNG GENIUS (shop/abt-music.com) was supported by the International Foundation for Culture and Civilization in Munich.