Spanish-Australian pianist Nicolás Margarit was born in Brisbane in 1999. Since 2017, he has been studying at the Banco Santander Foundation Piano Chair of the Reina Sofía School of Music, with Dmitri Bashkirov until 2021 and, since 2021, with Milana Chernyavska, thanks to an Albéniz Foundation scholarship.
A distinguished student in 2019, 2020, and 2024, he began playing the piano at the age of three, guided by Joyce Bennet, and gave his first public concert at four, after which he studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Ruth Nye. He has received masterclasses from figures such as András Schiff, Andreas Staier, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Jonathan Biss, and Eldar Nebolsin.
He won first prize in the 49th Young Piano Performers Competition of Catalonia in 2019, and was awarded at the Australian National Piano Award in 2024.
He performs as both a soloist and a chamber musician, and is equally proficient on modern and historical keyboards. In Spain, he has performed at festivals such as the Úbeda and Baeza Early Music Festival, the Hammerklavier Festival of Catalonia, and the Pianino Festival in Valldemossa. Meanwhile, he regularly performs throughout Europe, mainly in Germany, Poland, Portugal, Italy, and the United Kingdom.
As a student of the School, he has performed with the Sinfonietta (conducted by Baldur Brönnimann); with the Camerata Fundación EDP (conducted by Christoph Poppen); with the School’s Baroque Ensemble (conducted by Paul Goodwin) and in the World Heritage Cities Series (Úbeda). He has been a member of the Mistral Trio, the Tricorne, Satie de Bain, and Telemann groups, and the Areti Duo.