Born in Barcelona, since 2017 he has been Artistic Director of the Lied Festival and the Victoria de los Ángeles Foundation, combining the presence of major national and international artists with support for young talent through scholarships, awards, training programmes and masterclasses. He was also curator of the Victoria de los Ángeles Year for the Government of Catalonia, commemorating the soprano’s centenary.

In stage direction, he made his debut in 2023 at the Oxford International Song Festival with the production Goya & Granados, which was also presented at Barcelona’s Palau Güell. Together with Vincent Huguet, he developed the concept for the Victoria de los Ángeles centenary gala at the Gran Teatre del Liceu (2023), and directed the tribute to Victoria de los Ángeles at Madrid’s Teatro de la Zarzuela (2024).

Recently he directed La voix humaine with Mercedes Gancedo and Julius Drake at the MacHynlleth Festival (United Kingdom), the Palau de la Música Catalana, Espacio Turina in Seville and 89 Reade in New York. He has also directed Mild und Leise, featuring Wagner and Mahler lieder performed by Elena Pankratova and Joseph Breinl, as well as Letters to a Young Poet, about Rainer Maria Rilke’s relationship with music, with actress Núria Prims and pianist Marta Puig.

He studied Journalism at Universitat Ramon Llull (Barcelona) and holds a Master’s degree in Performing Arts Administration from New York University. He has worked at Gotham Chamber Opera (New York), at the Gran Teatre del Liceu creating its American Friends programme and collaborated with the Xavier Montsalvatge Association in promoting the composer’s work.

Jennifer Larmore  is an American mezzo-soprano, a Grammy winner with over one hundred recordings to her name, a Chevalier of the French government, Richard Tucker winner, Georgia Hall of Fame inductee, voice teacher and an author! Add straight actress to the list with her appearance in a Netflix series entitled King the Land aired in July/August 2023. 

Miss Larmore began her career as "Rosina" in Il Barbiere di Siviglia" in San Diego in 1981. She made her European operatic debit at Opera de Nice in 1986 with Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito and went on to sing at virtually every major opera house in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Paris Opera, Tokyo, Berlin Deutsche Oper, and London Covent Garden.

 During her forty-five year career, she recorded widely for Teldec, RCA, Harmonia Mundi, Deutsche Grammophon, Arabesque, Opera Rara, Bayer, Naive, Chandos, VAI and Cedille in over one hundred CDs as well as DVDs of “Countess Geschwitz” in Lulu, Jennifer Larmore in Performance for VAI, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Netherlands Opera), L'Italiana in Algeri (Opera de Paris), La Belle Hélène (Hamburg State Opera), Orlando Furioso (Opera de Paris) and Jenufa (Deutsche Oper Berlin). She has recorded three charming books on tape as narrator for Atlantic Crossing Records with stories by Kim Maerkl entitled Mozart's Magical Night with Hélène Grimaud and the Bavarian State Orchestra, Puccini’s Enchanted Journey with story by Kim Maerkl, and The King’s Daughter with story and music for flute and string orchestra by Kim Maerkl with the flute player Natalie Schwaabe.

In 1994 Jennifer won the prestigious Richard Tucker Award. In 1996 she sang the Olympic Hymn at the Closing Ceremonies of the Olympics in Atlanta. In 2002, “Madame” Larmore was awarded the Chevalier des arts et des lettres from the French government in recognition of her contributions to the world of music. In 2010 she was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in her home state of Georgia. 

With the pianist Antoine Palloc, she has made many International recital tours, including appearances in Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Vietnam, Vienna, London, San Juan, Prague, Melbourne, Brussels, Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon, Sao Paolo, Athens and Copenhagen, as well as all the major American venues.

Jennifer debuted "Madelon" in Andrea Chenier and the “Countess" in Pique Dame both for the Deutsche Oper, Berlin in 2024, as well as the Countess for Opera Regio di Torino in May, June 2025. She will sing “Mother Goose” in "The Rake’s Progress” for the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in December 2026 and make her final goodbye to the stage with “Herodias” in Salome at Teatro Regio Torino in April 2027. 

Miss Larmore is an advocate for young singers having taught and given masterclasses for twenty six years all over the world. She is a visiting professor at The Palau des Artes in Valencia, Spain, the Anton Rubinstein Academy in St Petersburg, Russia, and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK.

Recognised at the highest international level as one of the UK’s leading accompanists, Malcolm Martineau has performed worldwide alongside the world’s greatest singers, including Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Janet Baker, Florian Boesch, Elīna Garanča, Dame Sarah Connolly, Angela Gheorghiu, Susan Graham, Sir Simon Keenlyside, Fatma Said, Patricia Nolz, Erin Morley, Dame Felicity Lott, Anne Sofie von Otter, Günther Groissböck and Sonya Yoncheva.

He has appeared at the world’s principal venues including Alice Tully Hall, Barbican Centre, Berlin State Opera, Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Mariinsky Theatre, Metropolitan Opera, Munich Opera, Paris Opera and Salle Gaveau, Royal Opera House, La Scala, Sydney Opera House, Teatro Real, Salzburg Mozarteum, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Musikverein and State Opera, Walt Disney Hall, Wigmore Hall, and Zurich Opera amongst others. Malcolm has also appeared at the Aix-en-Provence, Vienna, and Salzburg Festivals. He has presented his own series at the Wigmore Hall and at the Edinburgh Festival.

As a prolific recording artist, Martineau’s discography of over 100 CDs includes the following award-winning recordings: The Vagabond with Sir Bryn Terfel (Gramophone Award), Songs of War with Sir Simon Keenlyside (Grammy and Gramophone Awards), Schumann and Mahler Lieder with Florian Boesch (BBC Music Magazine Award), Mahler Lieder with Christiane Karg (Diapason d’or), and El Nour with Fatma Said (Gramophone Award).

Malcolm is a Professor of Piano Accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music and an Honorary Doctor and International Fellow of Accompaniment at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He was made an OBE in the 2016 New Year’s Honours for his services to music and young singers.
 

Born in Barcelona in 1977 to a German father and a Spanish mother, he attended the German School of Barcelona and, after studying Audiovisual and Film Communication in Barcelona and Paris, began working for various media companies (Klassik.com in Cologne, Kirch New Media in Munich and ARTE TV in Strasbourg).

In 2001 he changed his professional path to move into arts management, working as assistant to the Artistic Director of Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.

In 2003 he joined the Heidelberger Frühling festival as Head of Artistic Planning and Production, where in just two years he launched a period of expansion, creating permanent string quartet, lied and contemporary music series. In 2005 he joined Ibercamera, Barcelona’s leading private concert promoter. Over ten years, he contributed decisively to the transformation of the company, which is now a leading player in Spain’s music sector. He was founding director of La Filarmónica de Madrid, Director of Ibercamera and Director of Agencia Camera.

During these years he founded a concert platform for young artists at Casa Milà–La Pedrera, Gaudí’s UNESCO World Heritage site, as well as the Cervià de Ter Music Festival and the Da Camera Orchestra, made up of leading Spanish instrumentalists.

In 2015 he decided to take a new professional step, establishing himself independently as an advisor to institutions such as the Barcelona Conservatory of Music, the Granada Festival, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Revista Musical Catalana, SWR (South West Broadcasting) in Stuttgart and the Engelhorn Stiftung (Zurich), while also representing numerous internationally renowned artists.

In 2016 he assumed the General Management of the Schubert Association in Barcelona. The institution organises the Schubertiada Vilabertran, a unique chamber music and lied festival, which he has significantly developed and expanded under his leadership. At his proposal, in 2017 Barcelona’s three main music institutions — the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Palau de la Música Catalana and L’Auditori — created Barcelona Obertura, a platform promoting the city as a destination for music lovers, launching for the first time a joint festival: the Barcelona Obertura Spring Festival.

In April 2018 he was invited by Karsten Witt, the legendary Berlin-based music manager and former president of Deutsche Grammophon, to join his team as consultant, conceiving and developing a new clsx.de concert season with activities at the Berlin Philharmonie and Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. He was recently appointed Director of L’Auditori de Barcelona.

Born in Barcelona, she has been Artistic Director of the Schubertíada — organised by the Franz Schubert Association — since June 2025. She has also been part of the festival team since 2014, serving as head of communication and documentation, as well as technical editor of publications, among other responsibilities.

She holds a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), specialising in audio and voice processing. In the field of engineering, she has worked in R&D departments of various private companies, written and translated technical documentation and textbooks, and taught at UPC and Pompeu Fabra University in areas such as signal processing, electronics and mathematics.

In 2011 she began combining her engineering career with music outreach and education. Specialising in lied, she has taught courses at music schools and cultural institutions in Barcelona; given lectures and presentations at the Schubertíada, the Palau de la Música Catalana and L’Auditori; written programme notes for these venues as well as the Teatro de la Zarzuela and the Philharmonie de Paris; and contributed articles to several music magazines. She is the author of the section “La cornucòpia” in Revista Musical Catalana and creator of the website Liederabend, dedicated to promoting the art song repertoire, where she has published more than 750 articles on songs by over 150 different composers.