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Jordi Figaró i Voltá

Jordi Figaró i Voltá was born in 1967 in Sabadell and was musically trained at the Escolania de Sant Agusti in Sabadell and at the conservatoires of Sabadell, Terrassa, Liceu and Barcelona to become a tenora and flabiol player. He teaches these two instruments at the Municipal Conservatoire of Music and the School-Conservatoire of Igualada. He has recently taken up the post of tenora teacher at the Higher School of Music of Catalonia (2001).

In 1993 Jordi Figaró i Voltá founded the duo Instruments Catalans en Concert whose aim was and is now to acquaint public at large with the potential of the flabiol and tenora as chamber instruments and to promote composition for these instruments outside cobla, the national chamber ensemble of Catalonia. He has played throughout Catalonia, the rest of Europe and Venezuela accompanied by piano, carillon or organ, or within a cobla or Mediterranean ensembles. In December 1999, at his suggestion, he premiered the first Concerto for tenora and orchestra composed by Xavier Boliart with the Symphonic Orchestra of Barcelona and Catalonia.

He has participated in recording of more than 30 CDs and has worked for TV3.

Since 1998 he has been the tenora player of the ensemble Une Anche Passe from Montpellier. He conducts academic coblas at the places where he teaches, giving priority to newly created works for cobla.

In the opinion of different music critics, this young Spanish musician is “a skilled artist who evokes the natural voice of the accordion expressing its very soul”. Iñaki Alberdi was born in 1973 and got his music education first in Spain at the International Centre for Accordion Players and later at the Russian Academy of Music in Moscow and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

Iñaki Alberdi has won first prizes in various national and international competitions, including Couple Mondiale and the International Moscow Competition that secured great success of his performing career. Thus began his collaboration with many famous orchestras of Spain and other countries. He has performed in prestigious halls of Madrid, Catalonia, Ireland, England and taken part in music festivals in Strasbourg, Moscow, Vienna, Helsinki, Rome Cairo, Alexandria, etc. He has been invited to serve on the jury at prestigious international competitions. Iñaki Alberdi has been also actively engaged in holding seminars both for teachers and students, mainly in Spain. This year (2002) he has been invited to give several master classes at the Royal Academy of Music (the United Kingdom) and Yugoslavia.

Currently Iñaki Alberdi is a professor at Escola Superior Música de Catalunya and the Higher School of Music of the Basque Country (MUSIKENE).

Manel Camp is a truly versatile musician. He has proved to be not only a good pianist but also excelled as a composer, arranger and musical director of numerous concerts and discographic productions. He has collaborated with different renowned orchestras of Spain both chamber and symphony. He has released over twenty records and composed soundtracks of several films. He has also written music for ballets and is an author of chamber music pieces, including Symbols, Petite Suite and some others.

As a pianist-soloist he has participated in many an international jazz festival held in Spain (Barcelona, Madrid, Majorca, Granada, Salamanca), France (Grenoble), Russia (Moscow, Cheboksary, Yaroslavl), Lithuania, Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela (Caracas).

Apart from his activities as performer and composer, M. Camp is engaged in giving educational courses on musical creation, improvisation and modern piano techniques.  

Manel Camp has been a recipient of many prestigious awards in Spain for his achievements in different spheres of music activities.

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