The Catalonia College of Music (; ) is a higher education music school in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Operations The school is located at L'Auditori, a performing arts center inaugurated in 1999 which also houses three concert halls and a museum.Site of Museu de la Música 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 Albert Guinovart, composition Agusti Charles, composition Mauricio Sotelo, composition Rosalia, musicology Uxia Martinez Botana, 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 Luca Chiantore, musicology Ignasi Terraza, jazz piano Rita Payés, jazz trombone
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)