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The Catalonia College of Music ( ca, Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, ESMUC; ) is a music school in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The school is located at L'Auditori, a performing arts center inaugurated in 1999 which also houses three concert halls and a museum. The school has an international faculty and student body, and includes departments for classical and contemporary music, early music, jazz and popular music, traditional music, musicology and ethnomusicology, theory and composition, music education, music business, and sonology.Joan Melton ''Singing in musical theatre: the training of singers and actors'' 2007 p94 "Another regular teaching trip is in Barcelona at ESMUC, the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya. It's not like our conservatoires here, more like a university setup where they offer jazz, Catalán folk music, early music."


Faculty

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Albert Guinovart Albert Guinovart (; born 1962 in Barcelona) is a Spanish composer. Guinovart studied at the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona (''Conservatori Municipal de Música de Barcelona''). Since 2002 he teaches composition at ESMUC (''Escola Superior de ...
, composition * Agusti Charles, composition *
Mauricio Sotelo Mauricio Sotelo (born 2 October 1961 in Madrid) is a Spanish composer and conductor. Sotelo began his musical studies as a self-taught player of the guitar, and later at the Real Conservatorio de Música de Madrid. In 1979 he moved to Vienna to s ...
, composition *
Uxia Martinez Botana Uxia may refer to: * Uxía (born 1962), Galician singer Uxía Senlle * Uxía Martínez Botana, Galician double bass player * ''Uxia'', a synonym for ''Clemensia ''Clemensia'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was described b ...
, double bass * Melissa Mercadal, current principal of the college. * Kennedy Moretti, chamber music professor * Gary Willis, electric bass * Xavier Castillo, clarinet * Lorenzo Coppola, clarinet * Vera Martínez Mehner, violin * Johan Duijck, choral conducting * Lutz Köhler, orchestra conducting * Pedro Memelsdorff, recorder * Zoran Dukic, classical guitar+ * Ashan Pillai, viola
Karst de Jong
theory, improvisation * Béatrice Martin, harpsichord * Joaquim Rabaseda, musicology * Vicens Prats, flute * Anna Costal, musicology *
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, musicology +Former faculty


Performing ensembles

The school has several performing ensembles, including: * Orquestra i Cor d'Antiga de l'ESMUC (ESMUC early music ensemble and choir).


References


External links


ESMUC official web-site
(Catalan, Spanish and English) Music schools in Spain {{catalonia-university-stub