Artists
He has performed throughout Europe and in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Flagey, Bozar, Pau Casals Auditorium, Auditori de Barcelona, and Palau de la Música Catalana, both as a soloist and chamber musician. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Budapest, the Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie, the RTVE Orchestra in Madrid, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and the Andorra Chamber Orchestra. Pau has won several competitions and awards, such as the MBF’s Guilhermina Suggia Award, both the third prize and the Critique’s Award in the El Primer Palau Competition in Barcelona, and the first prize in the Concurso Permanente competition of Jeunesses Musicales of Spain. He is a member of the Esbjerg Ensemble, Oculi Ensemble and Trio Fortuny.
Born in Albacete, Spain, in 1997, he is studing his Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music in London and he studies at the Reina Sofía School of Music's Fundación Banco Santander Piano Chair since 2024. He is the winner, among others, of the second prize at the Paderewski International Piano Competition in Poland; the first prize at the International Piano Competition Compositores de España; the Rosa Sabater Award at the International Piano Competition “Premio Jaen” or the first prize at the César Franck International Piano Competition in Brussels. He has given recitals all over Europe and performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the OH! Orchestra at the Chopin and his Europe Festival in Warsaw, the Symphony Orchestra of Galicia, the Symphony Orchestra of Castilla y León, the Orchestra of Valencia, the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville or the Pomeranian Hall Symphony Orchestra in Poland.
Vera Martínez Mehner & Abel Tomàs, violins | Crsitina Cordero, viola | Arnau Tomàs, cello
First prize winner at the London and Hamburg (Brahms) international competitions, Cuarteto Casals has become one of the leading string quartets of its generation. It has performed regularly at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Musikverein in Vienna, Kölner Philarmonie, Cité de la Musique Paris, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and the Berlin Philharmonic. The quartet has been profoundly influenced by its work with contemporary composers such as György Kurtág, and has given the world premieres of works by leading Spanish composers. The highlights of his upcoming seasons include Mozart's ten last quartets and other projects focusing on the Hungarian composers Bartók, Ligeti and Kurtág. He has been recognized as a cultural ambassador by the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Institut Ramon Llull.
Lluís Castan i Judit Bardolet, violins | Miquel Jordà, viola | Jesús Miralles, violoncel
Nascut el 2010, s'ha format a Basilea, Berlín i Hannover; posteriorment, el 2019 va ser becat per l'Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía per formar part del programa de l'Instituto de Càmara. Guanyadorsde diversos concursos nacionals i internacionals, ha actuat en escenaris com ara el Concertgebouw i el Muziekgebouw d’Amsterdam, l'Stadt-Casino de Basilea, l'Elbphilharmonie d'Hamburg o La Fenice de Venècia. També ha estat convidat a festivals d’estiu de prestigi com la Schubertíada, el Festival Pau Casals del Vendrell, la Porta Ferrada, Aix-en-Provence i Verbier. És destacable el seu compromís amb la música de nova creació, que l'ha dut a actuar al cicle del CNDM de Madrid, a la Nuit de la Création a Aix-enProvence, al KunstFest de Weimar i a l’Arnold Schoenberg Center de Viena.
Anton Hanson, Jules Dussap, violins | Gabrielle Lafait, viola | Simon Dechambre, cello
The Hanson Quartet was founded in 2013 in Paris. It has forged a distinct musical identity embracing a wide spectrum of musical horizons, and has worked with internationally recognized figures such as Hatto Beyerle and Johannes Meissl as well as with representative Quartets of the French School such as Ebène and Ysaÿe. The Hanson Quartet is also engaged with contemporary composers such as Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm and Mathias Pintscher. It has gained a number of international awards, at the Geneva competition, the Joseph Haydn Competition in Vienna and at the Lyon Chamber Music competition. The Quartet perform in prestigious venues such as the Louvre Auditorium, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Philharmonie of Paris, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the ORF Kulturhaus in Vienna and they regularly perform in Asia. They regularly appear together with musicians such as Bertrand Chamayou, Edgar Moreau, Adam Laloum, Pierre Genisson, Bruno Philippe, Vadim Kholodenko and Guillaume Bellom.