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Faculty 2007
Voice Dr. Patricia Caicedo, soprano (Colombia) Isabel Aragón, soprano (Spain) Dr. Stela Brandão, soprano (Brasil)
Guitar Rafael Cañizares Flamenco Guitar (Spain) Alex Garrobé, Spanish Guitar (Spain) Edwin Guevara, guitarra (Colombia)
Piano
Composer in Residence Wilfrido Domínguez, composer(Cuba)
Diction and Musicology Dr. Montserrat Bonet, Spain Carlos Manso, (Argentina) Dr. Miquel Peralta, Musicology (Spain)
Alexander Technique Alix Ricard, Técnica Alexander (Spain)
Voice
Dr. Patricia Caicedo, soprano (Colombia): A recognized specialist and international performer of Latin American art song, Caicedo has sung in the United States, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Puerto Rico and Latin America to public and critical acclaim. Her well-received CDs include: A mi ciudad Nativa – To My Native City (Mundo Arts, 2005), Lied: Art songs of Latin America (Albert Moraleda, 2001) and La Felicidad, a collection of works by Colombian composer Jorge Olaya Muñoz, recorded with the Banda Sinfónica Santafé de Bogotá in 1997. Ms. Caicedo has earned highest honors in numerous festivals and competitions, including a prize awarded by Sony Music for best classical soloist in 1998 in Colombia and first prize in the “Concurso Nacional del Bambuco” competition, also in Colombia, in 1993. . Ms. Caicedo made her professional debut in 1993 when, as a part of the International Festival of Classical Music, she was a soloist in Gabriel Faure´s Requiem, accompanied by the Tolima Symphony Orchestra. Since then she has been a soloist in J.C. De Arriaga´s Stabat Mater, G.B. Pergolessi´s Stabat Mater and given recitals all around the world. During the last years Ms. Caicedo has debuted many works by some of the most important living composers of Latin America. She is frequently invited to contemporary music festivals where she performs new works. Many of the songs that she had debuted had been dedicated to her. . Born in Ibagué, Colombia, Ms. Caicedo began studying piano, music theory, and voice as a child at the Tolima music conservatory; then continued with private instructors in Bogota. After completing medical studies in Bogotá, she resumed her voice studies and has since worked with Rocío Rios, Alfredo Krauss, Maya Maiska and Gilberto Escobar. In addition to her busy performing schedule, Ms. Caicedo is an expert in the history and musical interpretation of the Latin American and Spanish art song. A popular teacher as well as performer, Ms. Caicedo regularly gives concert-lectures, master classes, and serves as Artist-in-Residence at leading universities in the United States and as a Cultural Ambassador for the Colombian Diplomatic Corps. She had been a guest teacher as such institutions as New York University, Columbia University, University of Texas at Austin, University of South Florida, New Mexico State University, University of Indianapolis, Loyola University, Conservatorio de Granada, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Texas Christian University and Bringham Young University among others. Her book The Latin American Art Song: A Critical Anthology and Interpretative Resource for Singers (Edicions Tritó, 2005) is a reference book in the field. Her commitments for the season 2006 - 2007 include concerts and master classes in Spain, USA, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Cuba, and El Salvador. In 2008 Patricia will appear at the pretigious publication Who’s who in America.
Dr. Stela Brandão, soprano (Brazil): Brazilian art song specialist, Dr. Brandão, graduated from the Conservatory at the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She received her doctorate in Music Education from the University of Columbia Teachers College in New York. Her dissertation on the Brazilian art song focused on several songs by Heitor Villa-Lobos. An active performer, Brandão will make her Carnegie Hall debut in the fall of 2005 with a recital of Brazilian songs, many of which we will hear during the Barcelona Festival of Song.
Isabel Aragón, soprano (Spain) Born in Granada, Isabel Aragón started her training at the Conservatorio de Sevilla and finished at the Conservatorio Superior Municipal de Barcelona where she graduted with the highest honors. She continued her studies ath the Mozarteum of Salzburg with the support of an scholarship given by the Fundación March. Her teachers had been Conxita Badia, L. Egger, W. Raninger and F. Gimeno. She have obteined numerous prizes at international voice competitions like: “Francisco Viñas” (España), “Giuseppe Borgatti” (Italia) y Bienal de Rio de Janeiro (Brasil).
Ms. Aragon had collaborated with several orchestras under the batum of important conductors like S. Mas, R. Zollman, L. Balada, J. Guinjoan, J. Pàmies, J.C. Bernède y S. Johnson. She had performed at important international music festivals in Granada, Ripoll, Barcelona, Menorca, Bruselas (Europalia 85), Turín (Settembre Musica), Evreux (Música Contemporánea), Ginebra (Eté Espagnol), “XVII Congrés de Història de la Corona d’Aragó” y el “Congreso Internacional F.G.ª Lorca” organizado por la Universidad de Granada. Aragon is well know as an interpreter of the Spanish and Latin American Repertoire. She has two CDs of Spanish and Catalan music.
Guitarists
Alex Garrobé, Classical Guitar (Spain): Born in Barcelona his teachers were José Tomás, David Russell, William Watters and Josep Pons. He holds the higher Teacher's Degree from the Oscar Esplà Conservatory in Alicante, where he won the Honors Price. In 1990 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Scholarship to broaden studies at the Musikhochschule in Cologne.
Since winning First Price at the 1990 Infanta Cristina Guitar Competition and the 1988 Musical Youths of Spain Competition, the concert career of Àlex Garrobé has quickly developed in Europe, the Middle East, United States and South America, performing in some of the most prestigious international halls, including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Radio France Auditorium in Paris, Auditorio Nacional (Madrid), Lutowslasky Auditorium (Warsaw) XXI Century Auditorium (Beijing) . He is also prize winner at the Andrés Segovia Competitions of Almuñecar (1989) and Palma de Mallorca(1987).
Among his many collaborations as a soloist with orchestra are the performance of concierto de Aranjuez at the Auditorio Nacional (Madrid) in the concert given to Joaquin Rodrigo, and the world premier of the Concert Mare Nostrum of Salvador Brotons performed in the Lublin Guitar Festival (1999, Poland) and conducted by the composer. Many composers have dedicated pieces to him (S.Brotons,M.Smaili, S.Iannarelli, G.Drozd, S.Eide…). He has four Cds with the labels Harmonia Mundi, Opera Tres and Columna Musica.After listening his Cd dedicated to British composers the opinion of Sir Malcolm Arnold was: "A masterly interpretation, it is gratifying to hear one's music played so superbly". Currently he is professor at the Catalan Music College(ESMUC). He is also regularly invited to give master classes in several music institutions and universities: Stockolm, Warsaw, Oslo, Amsterdam, London(Guildhall School), Helsinki(Sibelius Academy ) Peking or Tokyo www.alexgarrobe.com
Rafael Cañizares, Flamenco Guitar (Spain): Rafael Cañizares was born in Terrassa in 1957. At the age of 13 started his musical training and started playing at the Flamenco Peñas of Barcelona. Since very early age we went to the tablaos flamencos and at 15 he debuted as an accompanist of Flamenco dancers as such well know tablaos as La Bodega del Toro and El Cordobes. At 17 he was selected by famous flamencologist Carlos Almendros to representated the Flamenco Guitar of Catalunya at the International Flamencon Guitar contest of Jerez de la Frontera.
Cañizares became one of the most wanted guitarist to accomnied singers at the festivals in Barcelona. He had been accompanist for such figures like Fosforito, Perro de Paterna , Diego Clavel , Manuel Gerena ,Curro de Utrera , El Cabrero ,Manolo del Río , Curro de Lucena , La Galleguita ,Miguel Vargas ,Duquende ,Chocolate ,Curro Malena ,La Niña de la Puebla ,Ana Reverte , Roque Montoya ``Jarrito``, Luis de Córdoba , Jiménez Rejano , La Galleguita , Pepe Nuñez ´´El Loreño`` and Jiménez Rejano. He also had collaborated with musicians like Carlos Benavent ,Jorge Pardo , Salvador Niebla , Albert Pla , Ze Eduardo, etc.
During six years Cañizares performed as a soloist and as a first guitar at the Tablao Los Tarantos, having been accompanist to some of the most representative dancers and singers of the Flamenco world in Barcelona like La Tani ,Tamara Carmona ,Faraón, Curro and Maruja Garrido. In 1986 he moved to the United States where he lived during six years. In the States Cañizares performed and thought at numerous universities in New York, Miami and Philadelphia. In 1992 Cañizares returned to Barcelona where he performed with his brother Manuel Cañizares at at duet that participate in numeorus festivals in Europe. In 1993 he received the first national prize of Flamenco Guitar at the XXIII Festival de la Minas en la Unión (Murcia).
Currently he is professor of Flamenco Guitar at the Catalan Music College(ESMUC). He is also the founder and director of the first school of Flamenco Guitar created in Spain, the Escuela de Guitarra Flamenca Rafael Cañizares. nza de este arte así como el descubrimiento y preparación de los nuevos valores de la guitarra flamenca.
Edwin Guevara, guitarra (Colombia): Born in Bogotá (Colombia) in 1977. He began his music studies at an early age in the Conservatorio Nacional de Colombia focusing on classical guitar and choral conducting with Ramiro Isaza and orchestration and instrumentation with Gustavo Yépez and Blas Emilio Atheortua. He has completed 49 recordings and has taught and directed diverse group chamber and orchestral groups in his country. He has won more than 60 prizes, among them the Leo Brouver prize in the “Amadeo Roldán” internacional competition in Camaguey (Cuba). He has completed concerts in Cuba, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Spain, India, France, Russia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt. He has been a soloist with the Colombo-European chamber orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, the Orquesta de Cámara Colombo-Europea, the Colombia Symphony Orchestra, the Barcelona Opera Orchestra, and the Ibero-American Chamber Orchestra of Catalonia.
He has been the director of the III Meeting for the Diffusion and Promotion of Folkloric Heritage of the Andean countries held in Granada, Spain. He has participated in the X and XI Havana International Guitar Festival, the II Intercentros Event held in the Queen Sofía Conservatory in Madrid, the VIII Arjau Music Festival, the 15 Barcelona International Guitar Festival, the VII Festival for Young Musicians in Catalonia, the VII Festival of Acoustic Music, the III Luis Milán Event and the XXXVIII Francisco Tárrega Internacional Music Event. In 2005 he was the special invitee to the II Ibero-American Guitar Festival of the Middle East organized by the Cervantes Institute (Spain) in which he gave concerts and master classes.
Piano
Pau Casan, piano (Spain): Native resident of Barcelona and accompanist of supreme sensitivity, Pau Casan, studied with Carme Agustí, with María Drets of the Marshall Academy, and with Miquel Farré en the Canservatori Superior Municipal de Música, where he graduated with honors. Casan did his graduate studies in piano with Gordon Fergus-Thompson and in accompanying techniques with Roger Vignoles in the Royal College of Music in London. Acompañante de gran sensibilidad, Casan obtuvo el postgrado avanzado de piano con Gordon Fergus-Thompson, thanks to a grant from the Pedro Pons foundation. Casan has performed as an accompanist in Spain, Portugal, France, Denmark, and Colombia, and as a piano soloist in Spain, England, and Colombia. Since 2000, he has worked with Patricia Caicedo and recorded a CD dedicated to the Latin American lied.
Musicologists
Victoria Elí Rodríguez, musicóloga (Cuba): Victoria Elí Rodríguez recieved her doctorate in musicology from the Univesrity of Humboldt and began her teaching career in 1961. Between 1978 and 1997 she directed the Departamento de Investigaciones Fundamentales en el Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Música Cubana (CIDMUC) where she directed the group that finished the publication Instrumentos de la música folclórico-popular de Cuba. From 1982 to 1997, Elí Rodríguez served as professor of musicology in the Facultad de Música del Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), de Cuba. Beginning in 1997, she worked as an auther and editor for several publications, the monumental Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispanoamericana, edited by the Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales (ICCMU) and the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE). Currently, she teaches at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Carlos Manso, musicólogo (Argentina): Student of Conxita Badía, musicologist, pianist, artist, and writer, Carlos Manso works in the Nacional Radio of Argentina and actively promotes the song repertoire of Latin America.
Dr. Miquel Peralta, musicologist (Spain)
Alexander Technique
Alix Ricard (Spain): Licensed in psychology (U.B.) and a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. Member of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (STAT) and founding member of the Spanish Association of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (APTAE). Currently, Ricard resides in Barcelona works as an Alexander Technique teacher in his private studio, the Conservatory of Music, the Luthier School of Music, the Center for Synergistic Health, the School of Music in Bellaterra, and in the Badalona Osteopathic Clinic (COB). Students have enjoyed his teaching in numerous institutions, including the Escuela de la Opera, Escuela del Palau de la Música, Escuela de Música Armonía, Escuela Eolia, Universidad de Vic (Barcelona), Escuela de Pedagogía Musical (Tarrasa), Escuela de Música Rita Ferrer (Gerona), Escuela de Música de Reus (Tarragona), Escuela de Música del Prat de Llobregat, clinics in Asturias and the Canary Islands, Conservatorio de Música de Orense (Galicia), Conservatorio de Música de Segovia (Castilla-León), Alexander Institute, Mary Mount College, and Bloomsbury Alexander Centre (England).
Diction
Dr. Montserrat Bonet, dicción (España): Montserrat Bonet y Agustí, physician and musician, is a specialist in surgery, foniatrics, otorhinolaryngology, logopedics and choir director and voice teacher. Born into a musical family, Bonet grew up with her grandmother Conxita Badia (abuela materna) and uncle composer Narcís Bonet. Since 1984, she has worked as a professor in the University of Barcelona in the School of Medicine. Since 2003, she has served as a tenured professor in Voice Pedagogy at the Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) and in 2005 accepted a new post at the Conservatorio Superior de les Illes Balears (Mallorca). Bonet served as executive producer of a CD dedicated to the vocal and choral works of Joaquin Nin y J. Nin-Culmell, published in 2006 by Columna Música.
She has organized and collaborated numerous vocal workshops devoted to speech therapy, choral conducting, vocal technique for the choir member in national and foreign universities. She works as a foniatric physician in the Escolania de Montserrat and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Since the founding of her technologically-advanced private practice in 1994, Bonet has assisted teachers, singers, actors, and children with the care of their voices. Her publications include various articles in scientific and musical journals as well as book chapters devoted to the rehabilitation of the hearing impaired.
Wagner Novais, dicción (Brasil): Director of the Brazilian Studies Center in Barcelona. |