On Stage Bio
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Elisenda has developed a very flexible style, a subtle and charismatic tone. She incorporates her knowledge of extended vocal techniques and alternative means of tone-production, based on her ongoing research into the contemporary repertoire. She feels at home around improvisation as much as with written repertoire.
Her repertoire encompasses a wide range, from renaissance music to contemporary pieces. She has premiered operas by A. G. Demestres at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya & at Festival del Castell de Peralada. She had her debut with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra at the Auditori de Barcelona. And participated at the New Music Incubator, Croatia and Belgium. She recently premiered Walking Opera by Ruta Vitkauskaite in Aarhus and London.
She has collaborated with such contemporary leading ensembles as Slagwerk Den Haag, VocalLAB, MUTU Ensemble, NJO, Muziektheater Transparant, the Ereprijs Orkest, VersArt duo, Esfera Ensemble. She offered masterclasses on contemporary vocal music at the East Anglia University and at Tel Aviv Music Univerity. She has performed at the Bimhuis and at the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ Amsterdam, Theater Korzo, Studio Loos, the Hague, Unerhörte Musik Berlin, Felicja Blumental and Levontin Seven Tel Aviv, Is Arti Lithuania, Palau de la Música Catalana Barcelona, o Teatros del Canal Madrid, among other venues.
In the field of Baroque music, she has collaborated with the ensembles Al Ayre Español, Música Temprana and Música Barroca de Girona. Elisenda is a cofounder and a member of Allegoria Ensemble, with whom she has performed broadly in Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands (Holland Festival, Utrecht Oude Muziek Festival, and Festivals such as Peñiscola, Cáceres, Barcelona, Salamanca).
Academic Bio
Workshop at: HU Amersfoort "The inextricable physio-psychological link between singing and wellbeing" December 2022, Amersfoort, NL
Attendee at: ArtEZ, First Sounds: Rhythm, Breath, Lullaby (RBL) Tier 2 - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Training, November, 2022, Enschede, NL
Lecture at: the International Conference of the International Association for Music and Medicine "Music Therapy at a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit - Sant Joan de Déu Pediatrics Hospital, Barcelona" May, 2022, Athens, Greece
Workshop during the International Congress of the International Association for Music and Medicine "The inextricable physio-psychological link between singing and wellbeing" May, 2022, Athens, Greece
ArtEZ, Training Certificate -follow up Integrative Music and Medicine "Music and Medicine" April-June, 2022, Enschede, NL
ArtEZ, Training Certificate "Music and Medicine" April, 2022, Enschede, NL
Lecture at: Codarts, Thesis presentation to first year Music & Dance Therapy graduate students, Jan. 2021, Rotterdam, NL
Attendee at: NICU Webinars by Music Therapy Consulting - Petra Kern, Jan. 2021, USA
Attendee at: Intergenerational Trauma Conference - Action Trauma, Jan. 2021, Belfast, UK
Codarts, - Master Degree in Music Therapy, 2020, Rotterdam, NL
- Thesis: Music Therapy at a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Supervisor: Kathinka Poismans. Jan. 2020
Attendee at: Trauma Summit 2020 - Action Trauma LTD – 22nd & 23rd June, 2020, Belfast, UK
Attendee at: Round Table on Music Therapy in the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit – Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research – November 2020, Cambridge, UK
ArtEZ, Training Certificate “Music Therapy in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit” level 1, 2018, Enschede, NL
Estill Voice International, - Certified Course, level 1&2, 2012, Amsterdam, NL
Koninklijk Conservatorium, - Master of Music, solozang, 2010, Den Haag, NL
- Professors: Barbara Hannigan, Maria Acda, Peter Kooij, Michael Chance, Jill Feldman, Carolien Drewes
Koninklijk Conservatorium, - Bachelor of Music, solozang, 2008, Den Haag, NL
- Professors: Gerda van Zelm, Peter Kooij, Michael Chance, Jill Feldman, Carolien Drewes
Conservatori de Vila-seca, - Bachelor of Music, singing, 2004, Catalunya, ES
- Professors: Enriqueta Tarrés, Alba R. Forasté, Alan Branch, Heidrun Bergander
Conservatori del Liceu, - Pedagogy course, 2003, Barcelona, Catalunya, ES
Federació Catalana d’Entitats Corals, - choir conducting degree, 2003, Barcelona, Catalunya, ES
Conservatori de Vila-seca, - Bachelor of Music, violin 2000, Catalunya, ES
- Professor: Evelio Tieles.