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Studies Xavier Pagès-Corella, born in Sant Pere de Ribes (Barcelona) in 1971, studied piano with Margarita Serrat and Montserrat Almirall, and composition with Salvador Pueyo at the Conservatory of Liceu, and he graduated with honors in conducting with Albert Argudo at the Conservatory of Barcelona. In 2000 he was admitted to the Conservatory of Vienna, where he studied conducting with Georg Mark and Reinhard Schwarz. He also has attended several conducting and composition courses in which he has studied with conductors such as Ovidiu Balan, Robert Gutter, Manuel Hernández Silva, Collin Metters, Antoni Ros Marbà and composers such as Carles Guinovart and Albert Sardà. In 2008 he met Joan Guinjoan who became one of his main mentors. In 1994 he won the Josep Mirabent i Magrans Competition for young musicians, with which he studied conducting and composition with Lou Harrison, Laszlo Heltay and Diego Masson at the Dartington International Summer School. In 2005 he received a special mention of the selection jury of the Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors, and won the assistant conductor position of Salvador Mas and Manel Valdivieso in the National Youth Orchestra of Catalonia. In 2016 he was finalist of the IV International Conducting Competition of the Cordoba Symphony Orchestra. Along with his music studies he graduated as Electric Engineer at the Higher Technical School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona. His final project on a computer-assisted piano tuning method was awarded by the prize of the Industrial Engineers Association of Catalonia. Conducting As a conductor he is mainly devoted to the performance of the contemporary repertory, conducting ensembles such as Barcelona 216, Grup 21, Sitges 94 and specially the Barcelona Modern Ensemble of which he is main conductor since 2016. He also has conducted orchestras such as the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Orquesta de Córdoba, Orquestra Simfònica Ciutat d'Eivissa, Orquestra Ciutat d'Elx, Giorquesta, Orquestra Camerata Musicae, Orquestra Camerata XXI, Camerata Eduard Toldrà and Orquestra de Cambra Terrassa 48. Internationally, he has debuted in America with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Mendoza and conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica Sinaloa de las Artes, Orchestre de Catalogne, Filarmonica Mihail Jora Bacău and Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach. Between 2004 and 2009, he was conductor of the Cobla Sant Jordi and currently he is associated conductor of the Orquestra de Cambra Catalana. He has conducted in the Palau de la Música, L'Auditori de Barcelona (including the Sampler Series cycle), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Grec Festival, ME_MMIX de Mallorca, Mostra Sonora de Sueca, Turbulences Sonores of Montpellier, Rafel Festival of Rafelbunyol, Música para el Tercer Milenio de Madrid cycle, Festival de Ensembles de los Teatros del Canal of Madrid, Jornadas de Música Contemporánea Española of Saragossa, Festival Castell de Peralada, Festival d'Òpera de Butxaca i Noves Creacions, Fundació Música Contemporània's cycle and Festival Internacional de Música Pau Casals. During 30 years he has premiered more than 200 works and he has collaborated with composers such as Albert Amargós, Marc Andre, Oscar Bianchi, José Luis Campana, Benet Casablancas, Raphaël Cendo, Francesco Filidei, Alberto García Demestres, Joan Guinjoan, Albert Guinovart, Nicanor de las Heras, Ramon Humet, Philippe Hurel, José Manuel López López, Demián Luna, Alberto Posadas, Ma. Teresa Roig, Isabel Urrutia, and also young composers such as Pablo Andoni, Damián Gorandi, Irene Gregori, Marta Haladzhun, Pablo Rubino, Demián Rudel, Filippos Sakagian, etc. From 2015 he is professor at the Conservatory of Liceu in Barcelona where he teaches composition and conducts several symphonic ensembles. Composing As a composer he has written for a wide range of vocal and instrumental ensembles and genres, with which he has been awarded in several national and international competitions, such as the Premi Centcelles de Composició (2021), Andrés Gaos Composition Prize (A Coruña, 2014), International Composition Competition 'City of Tarragona', Certamen Musical Violetes del Bosc (2006), Oare String Orchestra Composing Competition (United Kingdom, 2004), City of Reus Prizes and Francesc Basil Memorial (2000). He also has received commissions such as the Orfeó Català Foundation — Palau de la Música (Barcelona Creació Sonora 2021, 2011, 2008, 2006), Granada Symphony Orchestra (2021, 2018), World Symposium on Choral Music (2017), L'Auditori of Barcelona ('Cantània', 2015), Cervera Music Festival (2014), Sardanist Federation of Catalonia (2014 ,2012), Sant Cugat Symphony Orchestra (2005), Pocket Opera Festival of Barcelona (2004) and Memorial Joaquim Serra (2001). His music has been performed by ensembles such as the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Sinfónica de Galicia, Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona y Nacional de Cataluña, Orquesta Sinfónica Ciudad de Ibiza, Knox-Galesburg Symphony, Oare String Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica Julià Carbonell, Giorquestra, Orquesta Camera Musicae, Camerata Eduard Toldrà, Orquesta de Cámara Catalana, Orquesta del Real Círculo Artístico de Barcelona, Banda Municipal de Bilbao, Orfeó Català, Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Música, Cor Lieder Càmera, The Rose Ensemble, Cor Francesc Valls, Platypus, nsemble Neoars Sonora, Sitges 94, Barcelona Modern Ensemble, Quartet Gerhard, Quartet Brossa, Cobla Sant Jordi and by musicians such as Francisco Alcocer, David Alegret, Àlex Alguacil, Salvador Brotons, Nabí Cabestany, Jordi Camell, David Casanovas, Edmon Colomer, Simon Halsey, Frano Kakarigi, David Malet, Paul Mann, Joan Marín-Royo, Michał Nesterowicz, José Rafael Pacual Vilaplana, Nacho de Paz, Esther Pinyol, Xavier Puig, Ofèlia Sala, Josep Vila i Casañas, etc. All his works are published at Influx Sheet Music. |
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