Paloma O'Shea [SEP] residence
María de la Asunción de Artiñano y Luzarraga, married at Concepción, Madrid, on 2 May 1935. She started studying piano in 1941 in Bilbao and later moved to France to further her music studies. At age 15 she won the "Primer Premio Fin de Carrera " and performed as soloist with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra. Several years later she married Emilio Botín, the previous Executive Chairman of Grupo Santander and devoted herself to promoting classical music in Spain.
In 1972 she founded the Concurso de Piano de Santander, which
Paloma O'Shea
Paloma O'Shea Artiñano, 1st Marquise of O'Shea, (born 1936), is a pianist, patron of the arts, founder and current president of the Reina Sofía School of Music and founder and president of the Albéniz Foundation, which organizes the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition in Santander (Spain).
Paloma O'Shea was born in Bilbao suburb Las Arenas, Biscay, Spain, a daughter of José O'Shea y Sebastián (descended from Irishman William O'Shea who came to Spain in the 18th century) and Basque