Helena Jorquera’s motto: “Through the “eyes” of a piano, I have discovered that it is possible to have endless sensations, as many as hands that can make it sound. It is not so important who, but how. That is the greatness of the piano”.

Helena Jorquera was born in Barcelona on December 22th 1965, into a family dedicated for generations to the world of piano and pianists, being the fourth generation of it.
She is the daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter of great technicians-tuners, one of them her father Víctor Jorquera, recognized throughout Europe.
One of her favorite games, from the earliest childhood, was to disassemble pianos, thus discovering all its secrets, as well as turning the piano into his favorite “toy”, imitating the great pianists.
Her first score was given to her by Artur Rubinstein on one of his trips to Barcelona, since her father, Victor, was his personal tuner-technician on some of the pianist’s tours of Europe.
At the age of 4, she officially began her piano studies sharing a teacher with Albert Guinovart, a great Catalan pianist and composer. At the age of 7 she made her debut at the Palau de la Música in a conference for young pianists.
She continued her piano studies at the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona and later with María Canals, combining it with ordinary studies and without ever stopping going to the piano restoration workshop, where at the age of 13 she began as an apprentice under the hand of her father. At age 17, when she began her university studies, she made the final decision not to be a pianist but to continue with the family business, that is, to participate in the pianistic world from the instrument itself instead of the interpretation.
Throughout her professional and working life, the two merging, she has met prestigious artists and composers such as the aforementioned Artur Rubinstein, Alicia de Larrocha, Montserrat Caballé, Alfredo Kraus, Victoria de los Ángeles, Frederic Mompou, Pau Casals, Xavier Montsalvatge, Rosa Sabater, Joaquín Achúcarro, Gabriela Montero, Joyce Di Donato, among countless names.
Many of them shared friendship, dinners and long conversations in her childhood home. She was then unaware of the artistic magnitude of these people and now maintaining a great friendship with others.
Since that time, she has collaborated closely with festivals, competitions and musicians, taking over the management of Jorquera Pianos in 1993, preserving the essence of service to the piano and all that it entails, especially, honesty and rigor with the instrument and a way of understanding music and musicians instilled by her father.
As manager of Jorquera Pianos, she has had and continues to have the opportunity to have close contact with exceptional people and artists and pianos of incredible quality, such as being Steinway & Sons importers.

Her most important current pride today is having continued a project that began in 1953 with her son Oscar R. Jorquera, fifth generation. Her work is not simply a job, it is a way of understanding her own existence through music, always present in her life and especially through the “eyes” of the piano.