Artistic team
Pablo Larraz, principal conductor
Pablo Larraz began his music studies in Jaca (Osca), his native town. In Barcelona he studied Music Teaching at the UAB and piano with Carme Poch at the Municipal Conservatory, where he obtained his higher qualification in 2003. Pablo’s interest in vocal music led him to join renowned choirs such as the Orfeó Gracienc, the Coral Cantiga and Zaragoza’s Vozes de Al Ayre Español. He has also worked with the Cor de Cambra of the Palau, the Coro Barroco in Andalusia and different groups who perform historical music. Following a few years as a primary school and children’s choir teacher, he studied Choir Direction at the Catalonia Higher School of Music (ESMUC), where he worked with Josep Vila and Johan Duijck until completing the course in 2010.
Nowadays Pablo Larraz is the Director of Orfeó Català; he also has directed the Chamber Choir of the Diputació of Girona since 2008 and the Youth Choir of the Girona Conservatory since 2013. Since 2010 he has been Director Assistant as well as being the coordinator and educational leader of the vocal and musical training its singers receive. Likewise, he is a member of the technical team for the Catalonia Youth Choir Federation.
In recent years, Pablo has embarked on a career as a soloist tenor, specialising in the Baroque repertoire. In 2014 he won the Bach Scholarship and has performed over twenty of J.S. Bach’s cantatas, the role of the Evangelist in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and diverse oratorios and works by Handel, Carissimi and Mozart, among others. Last year he completed his further studies in Historical Song at the ESMUC under the tutelage of Lambert Climent.
Pau Casan, pianist
He formed with M. Farré, G. Fergus-Thompson and R. Vignoles at the Royal College of Music in London. First prize of the 23rd Joan Massià Contest and prize for the best pianist of the 22nd Ciutat de Berga Prize, he has performed in Spain, France, Portugal, Denmark, Germany, Finland, the United Kingdom and Colombia. He has a CD with solo piano works and accompanying the soprano A. Mateu (Columna Música).
He combines concert activity with teaching at the Superior Conservatory of Music of the Liceu and collaborates habitually with the Gran Teatre del Liceu. He is the pianist of the Cor infantil and the Orfeó Català.