The Catalonia College of Music (; ) is a

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. The school is located at

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, a performing arts center inaugurated in 1999 which also houses three concert halls and a

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. 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

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.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

* Albert Guinovart, composition * Agusti Charles, composition * Mauricio Sotelo, composition * Uxia Martinez Botana, double bass * Melissa Mercadal, current principal of the college. * Kennedy Moretti, chamber music professor *

Gary Willis Gary Willis (born 28 March 1957) is an American bassist and composer known foremost as the co-founder (with Scott Henderson) of the jazz fusion band Tribal Tech. Aside from his work in Tribal Tech, Willis has worked with numerous other jazz music ...

, electric bass * Xavier Castillo, clarinet * Lorenzo Coppola, clarinet * Vera Martínez Mehner, violin * Johan Duijck, choral conducting * Lutz Köhler, orchestra conducting *

Pedro Memelsdorff Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning ...

, recorder * Zoran Dukic, classical guitar+ * Ashan Pillai, viola
Karst de Jong
theory, improvisation *

Béatrice Martin Béatrice is a French feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Béatrice Bonifassi (born ), French-born vocalist * Béatrice Dalle (born 1964), French actress * Béatrice de Camondo (1894–1944), French socialite and a Hol ...

, harpsichord * Joaquim Rabaseda, musicology * Vicens Prats, flute * Anna Costal, musicology *

Luca Chiantore Luca Chiantore (born 1966) is an Italian pianist and musicologist, based in Catalonia. He has a PhD in Musicology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; he specializes in the study of piano technique and interpretation and the music of Beeth ...

, musicology * Ignasi Terraza, jazz piano +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) Catalonia College of Music Music schools in Spain {{catalonia-university-stub