YAHIMA

Yahima Piedra Córdova (Havana, Cuba) is a pianist, composer, music producer, and singer based in Berlin. Her work explores sound as territory: a space where roots dialogue with electronics, where memory transforms into sonic landscape, and where the stage breathes through music.

She received her formal training at the “Guillermo Tomás” Conservatory and the National School of Arts of Cuba (ENA), later expanding her studies at “L’Aula de Música Moderna i Jazz” at the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona.

Moving between classical tradition, jazz, and contemporary music, she has developed a hybrid language that integrates composition, sound design, and performance.

As a composer and producer, she has created music for theater productions, documentaries, short films, and podcasts, approaching sound not as accompaniment but as a structural element of narrative.

In 2019 she founded the band YAZKAH, a project merging Afro-Cuban rhythms, funk, and electronic elements.

She later co-founded Staima with visual artist Daniela del Pomar, an interdisciplinary performance format in which electronic music and visual art create immersive journeys shaped by the experience of migration.

She is a co-founder of KMZ Kollektiv, an independent theater company based in Berlin.

As part of the collective, she contributes as composer, on-stage musician, and performer, shaping the sonic layer of productions that intertwine live music, real-time video, material theatre, and autobiographical material. Her credits with KMZ include Kaffee mit Zucker?( 2021), Fünf Exponate ( 2023), KAKAO (2024), Warm wie die Kohle (2024), POPKORN( 2025), and ZEA MAYS (2025).

The collective has presented its work at numerous theaters and festivals in Germany and internationally, including Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Liechtenstein, Scotland, and Taiwan, with ongoing international collaborations.

Within the field of theater, she has led music workshops with children and participatory creative processes. She took part in the project Props gehen raus, which evolved into the theater production Don’t Stop Dreaming (2025), a play created by children in collaboration with GRIPS Theater Berlin.

In this production, she works as composer and performer, bringing live music to the stage.

She was invited by JES! Stuttgart to compose the original score for the theater production BLUTBUCH (2025), based on the novel by Kim de l’Horizon, developing the musical language of the stage adaptation.

Her work as a composer increasingly extends into film and audiovisual formats. She has created original music for documentaries such as Orishas Devotion and The Maji-Maji Readings by Ricardo Bacallao — the latter receiving a special invitation to the Berlinale 2022 — as well as for the podcast Desde el taller by Luis Meneses and the miniseries Charlas by Lu Glez.

She has participated in artistic residencies such as KLANG DER MILPA (Theater RAMPE Stuttgart), MORE THAN …, ZUCKER, and TALKING BACK.

In addition, she has led workshops in music and performing arts with KMZ in Switzerland and Taiwan.

Her artistic practice unfolds at the intersection of migration, memory, identity, and sonic experimentation — shaping spaces where the intimate becomes political.