Workshop a BEETHOVEN: 250Th ANNIVERSARY

Workshop A Workshop B Workshop C Conductor: Jordi Casals (Catalonia-Austria) Conductor: Elisenda Carrasco (Catalonia) Conductor: Xavier Torras (Catalonia) BEETHOVEN: 250th ANNIVERSARY, THE COLORS OF OUR SOUND, MUSICAL THEATER: TEXT AND MUSIC Mass in C Major Workshop for Children’s Choirs https://youtu.be/rvxRPR6EF8Y https://youtu.be/Rml7QeAxYy0 Catalan conductor born in Terrassa and formed musically at Born in Barcelona, Elisenda Carrasco began her musical studies in Xavier Torras, (Barcelona, 1980), has been linked to the world Escolania de Montserrat and in the conservatories of Terrassa the Conservatori Superior de Música de Barcelona, where she of music for a lifetime. He began studying piano at age 7 and and Vienna, city where he graduated with the highest honors finished degrees in Composition and Instrumentation, Orchestra has managed to make music his profession. His complete and currently lives. Conducting, and Musical Pedagogy with the specialty of Choral training includes studies in composition, orchestration, Singing. In the field of conducting, she has studied under S. orchestra conducting and music theory for cinema. Since 2000 member of the staff of the Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Johnson, L. Heltay, J. Prats, P. Cao, H. Rilling and F. Bernius. She was first as assistant conductor and later on as a Chorus Master for also taught by G. Hollerung and J. Frihsmund in Germany, with a As a composer, he has focused on the world of theater and the opera productions, he is currently the Deputy Conductor of scholarship from Musica Mundi. cinema. His creations have been heard in movies, short films, the choir. She has worked in the field of pedagogy for 30 years, particularly musical theater and even audiovisual and dance shows. He has Casals had been teaching Choral and Instrumental Conducting with children’s choirs; her work with the Escolania de Monsterrat also worked as the music manager of the dubbing in Catalan of at the Department of Sacred Music at the Viennese University and in the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona some television series. of Music and Performing Arts for 10 years before he changed in are noteworthy. 2016 to the Department of Choral Pedagogy. She is often invited to teach courses and workshops around the As a pianist he has been part of the Orquestra de Cambra de world, in several occasions by Europa Cantat and Musik in der Since 2015 he is the 3rd Kapellmeister of the Imperial Chapel of Granollers and is the principal conductor of the Jove Orquestrai Jugend; in Venezuela too, through the Schola Cantorum from the Hofburg in Vienna, a prestigious Austrian musical institution Cor del Vallès Occidental, specialized in theatrical and Caracas and the FESNOJIV. She has also been invited to Turkey and cinematographic repertoire. that since its founding in 1498 has been composed by the India to promote choral singing among children and the education Vienna Boys Choir, the Male Chorus of the Vienna State Opera of musical conductors. and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. For 17 years she was the artistic and musical director of the Cor In addition to being a musician, Xavier Torras has extensive Casals is also regularly invited in Catalonia and in other Infatil of the Orfeó Català; she has conducted, during four seasons, experience as a music and singing teacher. European countries to teach courses and workshops, to be part the mixed choir Lieder Càmera. of juries, to conduct concerts and to give lectures. For 15 years she has been the musical director of the project Òpera He has worked as a musical orchestrator and has been a Secundària (Opera in Highschool). She regularly collaborates with responsible for the musical direction of shows such as "Mamma He has been leading choral initiatives such as "Sing with the the Education Service of L’Auditori de Barcelona, by teaching music Mia!", "Jesus Christ Superstar" "The Bodyguard" "Over the choir" (Carmina Burana, 2015; Mozart’s Requiem, 2016) and for teachers, and she is the codirector of the program Cantània. She moon" or "Guapos&Pobres", and currently leads the baton of three seasons he has been the Artistic Director of the Singing teaches Didactic of the Choral Ensemble in the ESMUC. ANASTASIA at the Coliseum Theater in Madrid. Week organized by the Coral Federation from the South Tyrol in She is currently, and since its creation 30 years ago, the conductor Burgeis bei Mals. of the Cor Infantil Sant Cugat, and since 1999 she also conducts the Casals is also a graduate in Communication Sciences from the women’s choir Voxalba. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Full of dynamism, Elisenda Carrasco works, based on her musical and pedagogic education, with an energy and limitless vision that broaden the musical horizons both in technique and sound. .

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