Catalonia College of Music

The Catalonia College of Music (Catalan: Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, ESMUC; IPA: [əsˈkɔlə supəɾiˈo ðə ˈmuzikə ðə kətəˈluɲə]) is a music school in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

The school is located at L'Auditori, a performing arts center inaugurated in 1999 which also houses three concert halls and a museum.^[1] 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.^[2]

Albert Guinovart, composition
Agusti Charles, composition
Mauricio Sotelo, composition
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

+Former faculty

The school has several performing ensembles, including:

Orquestra i Cor d'Antiga de l'ESMUC (ESMUC early music ensemble and choir).

[1]
Site of Museu de la Música
[2]
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."