Workshop A Workshop B Workshop C Workshop D Conductor: Josep Vila Jover Conductor: Jan Schumacher Conductor: Joan Company Conductor: Juan Carlos Asensio (Catalonia) () (Balearic Islands) ()

STABAT MATER ROMANTIC MUSIC EL MIRADOR, GREGORIAN CHANT by J. B Pergolesi for woman voices by Josep Vila Casañas

Granollers 1970. He studied choral He‘s Professor of Choral Conducting at He’s one of the conductors with more He studied Gregorian Chant and conducting with Enric Ribó, Conxita the College of Church Music in presence in the most important choral liturgical music in the Escolanía de Santa Garcia and Christian Grube. He is the Rottenburg, music director of the circuits of Spain. Has a degree in General Cruz of the Valle de los Caídos, at the artistic director of the Societat Coral Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and History. He studied choral conducting Conservatory of Madrid (Piano, Flute, Amics de la Unió, a prestigious choir the conductor of Camerata Musica with P. Cao, M. Cabero and O. Martorell. choir conducting and musicology) and school which has more than six hundred Limburg and the Choir of TU Darmstadt. Since 1999 he’s the artistic director of the Abbey of Solesmes. Collaborator students and ten choirs. In this Having received his degree in School the Coro de la Orquesta Sinfónica de with the Répértoire International des institution he conducts the Cor Infantil Music and German from Johannes Galicia, which has prepared an extensive Sources Musicales (RISM) and the Atêlier Amics de la Unió, an equal voices choir Gutenberg University Mainz, Jan went and varied repertoire of symphonic de Paléographie Musicale. He has been with 60 children, considered one of the on to study Choral Conducting with music and a capella . His most renowned teacher of musicology at the best children’s choir in Europe. They Wolfgang Schäfer at the Frankfurt choral profile is the founding conductor Conservatory of Salamanca and have received several awards in University of Music and Performing Arts. of the Coral Universitat de les Illes currently teaches at the ESMuC and at international competitions. In 2013 the Jan teaches courses for singers and Balears (1977), which has achieved the RCSMM (Royal Conservatory of choir received the Silver Rose, the award conductors across Europe, Iceland, important recognition. He has received Music of Madrid). He is conductor of of the contest “Let the peoples sing!” of Turkey, Argentina, Venezuela, and the the Mallorca Rotary Award (Humanities Schola Antiqua and member of the the European Broadcasting Union. They USA. He is co-editor of various choral 1995-96) and Ramon Llull Rotary award Consiglio Direttivo of the Associazione perform regularly in the Teatre Auditori collections. His role as Vice President of (2011) , for «the extraordinary task of Internazionale Studi di Canto Granollers, the Palau de la Música the European Choral Association – teaching and dissemination of choral Gregoriano, president of the AHisECGre Catalana, L’Auditori of and the Europa Cantant puts him in the music», and Gabriel Alomar award 2001 (Asociación Hispana para el Estudio del Great Theatre of Liceu, colaborating with wonderful position of being able to from the Obra Cultural Balear. Recently Canto Gregoriano), researcher of renowed conductors such as Robert intensify the exchange among singers, he recorded the Mass of Pau Villalonga CILengua , member of Bibliopegia study King, Manel Valdivieso, Álvaro Albiach, conductors, and composers further for (+1609), the first Chapel Master of the and editor of the journal Estudios Jordi Savall, Pablo González or Rubén the benefit of choir music. Cathedral of Mallorca with Poema Gregorianos . Gimeno. Harmònic.