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The Catalonia College of Music ( ca, Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, ESMUC; ) is a

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Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the no ...

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. The school is located at

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, a performing arts center inaugurated in 1999 which also houses three concert halls and a

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. 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.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."

Faculty

* 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 *

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, recorder * Zoran Dukic, classical guitar+ * Ashan Pillai, viola
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theory, improvisation * Béatrice Martin, harpsichord * Joaquim Rabaseda, musicology * Vicens Prats, flute * Anna Costal, musicology *

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, musicology +Former faculty

Performing ensembles

The school has several performing ensembles, including: * Orquestra i Cor d'Antiga de l'ESMUC (ESMUC early music ensemble and choir).

References

External links

ESMUC official web-site
(Catalan, Spanish and English) Music schools in Spain {{catalonia-university-stub