Born
in 1977 in Barcelona, he studied in the High Music Conservatory
of Liceu in Barcelona, where he studied composition, piano,
violin and bassoon. He also received a degree in History of
Art from the University of Barcelona.
He has been a singing pupil of soprano Mercè Puntí
since 1989, and has also worked on repertoire with Dalton
Baldwin, Marco Evangelisti, Mark Hastings, Norman Shetler
and Roger Vignoles, on vocal technique with Christa Ludwig,
Lorraine Nubar, Elisabeth Söderström, Bonaldo Giaiotti
and Thomas Quasthoff, and on stage performance with Paul-Émile
Deiber. He has worked on German diction with Sophie Süssmann,
on French diction with Philippe Mercier, on Italian diction
with Giovanni Ceto and on English diction with Alan Branch.
He made his debut at the age of 12 (as a treble), performing
the leading role of Manuel de Falla's "El retablo de
Maese Pedro" ("Master Pedro's puppet show"),
an opera that he recorded for Harmonia Mundi in 1990 with
the Orquestra de Cambra del Teatre Lliure, conducted by Josep
Pons. This recording was awarded many international prizes
such as "Diapason d'Or", "10 de Répértoire"
and "Choc de la Musique". He also sang for three
years in the Liceu Opera House's Children's Choir under the
direction of Maestro Antoni Coll i Cruells.
He has won prizes in International Competitions such as the
"Preisträger" from the Sommerakademie Mozarteum
Salzburg (2002) and the 3rd. Male Prize, the Mozart Prize
and the Plácido Domingo Prize in the "40th.International
Singing Competition Francisco Viñas" (2003), amongst
others.
He has performed in Gran Teatre del Liceu (First Gravedigger
in "Hamlet" by Thomas; Joao in Montsalvatge's "Babel
46"; Ennius in Massenet's "Cléopâtre";
Marullo in Verdi's "Rigoletto"), Palau de la Música
Catalana ("Messiah by Händel, and the role of Christ
in Bach's "St. Matthew Passion"), L'Auditori de
Barcelona (world première of the García Demestres'
opera "Contes, tirallongues, jocs i colors"; European
première of Daniel Schnyder's oratorio "The revelation
of Saint John"; the role of Don Quijote in De Falla's
"Master Pedro's puppet show"), Teatre Fabià
Puigserver (Don Parmenione in "L'occasione fa il ladro"
by Rossini), Teatro Zorrilla (Aeneas in "Dido and Aeneas"
by Purcell, and Adonis in Blow's "Venus and Adonis"),
Auditorium Castell de Peralada in Girona (Commissario Imperiale
in Puccini's "Madama Butterfly"), Teatro Campoamor
in Oviedo (Crébillon/Rabonnier/Un maggiordomo in Puccini's
"La Rondine"), Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla
(Händel's "Messiah"), Auditorio Nacional in
Madrid ("St. John Passion" and "Mass in g minor"
by Bach), Auditorio Manuel de Falla in Granada (world première
of García Demestres' "Mariana en sombras",
and Fauré's "Requiem"), Basílica de
Sant Francesc in Palma de Mallorca (Bach's "St. Matthew
Passion"), Auditorio de Zaragoza (Polifemo in "Aci,
Galatea e Polifemo" by Händel), Concertgebouw in
Amsterdam ("Mass in g minor" by Bach), Church of
La Madeleine in Paris (Mozart's "Requiem"), Chatêau
de Beloeil in Belgium (Mozart's "Coronation Mass"),
Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile (Ned Keene in Britten's
"Peter Grimes"), and in festivals such as the Early
Music Festival in Barcelona (Aeneas in Purcell's "Dido
and Aeneas"), the Festival "Piano aux Pyrenées"
(Brahm's "A German Requiem"), ...
He has given recitals in Spain (Auditorium
CaixaForum in Barcelona, Liceu Opera House's Foyer, Círculo
del Liceu, Santa Cristina de Aro's church, Auditorium Prince
Felipe in Oviedo, Auditorium "la Caixa" in Palma
de Mallorca,...), France (Cloister of the Cimiez's Monasterium
in Nice), Austria (Grosser Saal and Wiener Saal of the Salzburg's
Mozarteum), and the United Kingdom (Leighton House in London)
with pianists Dalton Baldwin, Norman Shetler, Roger Vignoles,
...
He has worked with conductors such
as Marco Armiliato, Bertrand De Billy, Edmon Colomer, Jan
Latham-Koenig, Eduardo López Banzo, Jesús López
Cobos, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Miquel Ortega, Josep Pons, Antoni
Ros-Marbà and Sebastian Weigle; and directed on stage
by Lindsay Kemp, Alfred Kirchner, Jorge Lavelli, Lluís
Pasqual, Mario Pontiggia, and Graham Vick...
He has recently recorded the role of the "Forester"
in the BBC's cartoon production on the opera "The cunning
little vixen" by Janácek (sung in Catalan and
Spanish) under Kent Nagano.
Amongst his future engagements: Pepuso (in Granados' "María
del Carmen") and Lescaut (in Massenet's "Manon")
in Liceu Opera House of Barcelona; Lord Sidney (in Rossini's
"Il viaggio a Reims") in Théâtre de
La Monnaie (Brussels); Don Profondo (in "Il viaggio a
Reims") in Teatro Campoamor, Oviedo; Albert (in Massenet's
"Werther") in the Opera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria;
Alidoro (in Rossini's "La Cenerentola") in Teatro
Carlo Felice in Genova; Händel's "Messiah"
in Auditorio Manuel de Falla (Granada) and in the Auditòrium
(Palma de Mallorca); a recital with pianist Friedrich Haider
(Auditorio Prince Felipe, Oviedo); a CD recording of García
Demestres' opera "Mariana en sombras"; a CD Lied
recital with pianist Dalton Baldwin;
At the Théâtre
du Châtelet in Paris, winter 2006-07, he will star as
Macrobio in Rossini’s “la Pietra del paragone”
directed by Jean-Christophe Spinosi and the mise en scène
by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti.
