was born in Barcelona - the Catalan capital - on 15th January 1988. Taught at first by his father, Joaquim Alabau, and later by Iñaki Etxepare. At the age of fourteen he made a tour through Catalonia playing as a soloist with the orchestra of the Oriol Martorell School in Barcelona, and in 2004, won a place at the “Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu [Lyceum], Barcelona” where he studied with Amparo Lacruz. (This is the Conservatoire which produced so many fine artists: singers,

He is currently studying for a Master Degree in Musical Performance with Professor Louise Hopkins at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He plays a rare violoncello made by Camillus Camilli, (signed: "fecit Mantua 1745") and lent by Ms. Ursula Herman.

began his musical career at the age of five with his father, Miquel Rovirosa, and Merce Salietti. At ten, he was accepted at the “Escolania de Montserrat” (a specialist music school in Catalonia), where he studied with Vicená Prunés and a year later, aged 11, he was a prize-winner in the 13th City of Berga Competition. In 2000, he won a place at the Barcelona Music School, where he studied with Maestra Luisa Reòaga and Albert Attenelle, a Belgian prize-winner. Since then he, too, has been a frequent prize winner in piano and chamber classes in Madrid, Barcelona, Manresa, Berga, Murcia & Catalonia. Recently, he won the prestigious INJUVE competition. His teachers include Bryce Morrison, Pola Baytelman, Claudio Martìnez, Miguel Angelo Chavaldas, Francisco Jaime Pantin, Alexander Kandelaki, Nino Kereselidze, Harold Gray, Ronan O’Hora, Martin Roscoe, Caroline Palmer, Peter Bithell and Paul Roberts. He has performed in festivals at the Limelight Artists (London), Ruta del Cister (Spain), Autumn Festival (Pau Casals Hall, Spain), Impressions of Spain (London), Anglo-Spanish Society Classical Concert (London), Lunchtime Concert Series in Chichester Cathedral, Festival Mas i Mas (Barcelona), Festival de Jimena (Spain), New Talented Artists Barcelona, Veladas Musicales and the New 21st Century Repertoire (SGAE) in Spain. He has also played in venues such as La Pedrera (Gaudi’s Cathedral in Barcelona), St. Wilfrid’s Hall (Brompton Oratory, London), Axa’s Hall (Spain), Terrassa Hall (Spain), Netherhall Auditorium (London), Teatro Juan Bravo (Spain), Ateneu Barcelonës (Spain), Casa Elizalde (Spain), Monastery of Montserrat (Spain) and the Royal Monastery of Poblet (Spain). In 2007 he toured as a soloist in Murcia (Spain) where he played in the prestigious Teatro Romea. He has broadcast on TV3, CR and BTV among others. In 2006, he won a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and was awarded an audition prize. He has also been awarded a Ministerio de Cultura scholarship by the Spanish Government, the Ibercaja Bank Award, and the AIE Award (Artists and Instrumentalists of Spain. Recently, he won the Postgraduate Performance Award of the Musicians Benevolent Fund, and The John S Cohen Foundation is also supporting Ricard Rovirosa during his studies. Like Òscar, he is currently studying for a Master in Musical Performance degree, but with Professor Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.