Artists
Elionor Martínez Lara (Barcelona, 1996) completed her higher education studies at the Conservatori del Liceu, with a scholarship from the Ferrer-Salat Foundation. She later won the 2016 Salvat Bach Scholarship, awarded by the Bach Foundation Zum Mitsingen Barcelona. In 2019, she won four special prizes at the Josep Palet Singing Competition in Martorell, and in 2024, she participated in the Schubertiad's "Lied the Future" program. She has been selected as an ECHO Rising Star for the 2026-27 season. She earned a Master of Arts in Music Performance from the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, under the patronage of the Salvat Foundation. As a soloist, she has performed Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Requiem and Great Mass in C, Vivaldi's Gloria, the Requiems of Fauré and Brahms, and Bach works such as the St. John Passion and the Magnificat. She has also sung in opera productions such as Dido and Aeneas, Così fan tutte, and La Cenerentola. She regularly sings with La Capella Reial de Catalunya, conducted by Jordi Savall, and with Collegium Vocale Gent, conducted by Phillipe Herreweghe.
The Spanish-British pianist (Pals, Baix Empordà, 1999) began taking piano lessons at the age of 6. In 2021, she completed her bachelor’s degree gaining distinction at ESMUC, and is currently studying for a master’s degree in Piano performance at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. She has been invited to participate in festivals such as the Clasclás Festival in Galicia and the Schubertíada, and has offered concerts in various auditoriums and theatres in Catalonia, the rest of Spain and Germany. She has participated in piano competitions and has been awarded with diverse prizes; among them, the Elise Meyer Competition in Hamburg (2022), and has recently been selected by the Live music now and Career Center foundations to offer concerts in different venues in Hamburg. Since 2021 she is the artistic director of the Festival Clàssic Pals.
Russian American Soprano, Erika Baikoff, is a recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. As a Lindemann Young Artist, she sang the roles of Xenia (Boris Godunov) and Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro). From 2018 to 2020, Erika was a member of the Opéra National de Lyon Studio. Equally passionate about chamber music, she made her debut with Schubertíada and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, both of which she will return to in future seasons. Erika is the first-prize winner of the 2019 Helmut Deutsch Liedwettbewerb and the 10th Concours International de chant-piano Nadia et Lili Boulanger. Erika is an alumni of the Atelier Lyrique at the Verbier Festival, where she sang Musetta (La Bohème), and the Académie Vocal Residency of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in French Studies from Princeton University and a Master of Music from The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Born in Barcelona, she graduated in piano performance at ESMuC under the guidance of Jordi Camell and obtained the Lied Master's degree 'Victoria de los Ángeles'. She has been a collaborative pianist in this Master's program and received lessons from Francisco Poyato, Pep Surinyac, Anne Le Bozec, Pauliina Tukiainen, Wolfram Rieger, Roger Vignoles, Sholto Kynoch and Graham Johnson, among others. She has been awarded Best Lied Pianist and received the Yamaha Award at the II AESPIRE Prize. She has participated in the Mastercourse of the Oxford International Song Festival and in the 14th Liedakademie of the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen, and has been a ‘LIFE New Artist’ at the ‘LIFE Victoria’ Lied Festival. She holds a degree with honours in Literary Studies and a Master's degree in Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature from the University of Barcelona.
Format a l'Escolania de Montserrat i la Chetham's School of Music (Manchester), el pianista Eudald Buch es va graduar a l'ESMUC, i al Conservatori Txaikovski de Moscou amb Elisso Virsaladze, amb qui actualment amplia els seus estudis a Fiesole, Florència. Ha participat als festivals de Buxton i Hellens (Anglaterra), The International Holland Music Sessions (Holanda), Weltklassik (Alemanya), la Schubertíada i el Festival Chopin de Valldemossa, i ha tocat en sales com el Palau de la Música, L'Auditori, l'Auditorio Nacional i la Fundación Juan March a Madrid, l’Auditori de Girona, L'Atlàntida, l'Auditori Enric Granados i l'Auditori Pau Casals . Com a solista ha col·laborat amb l'Orquestra de Cambra de Vic, la Chetham's Symphony Orchestra i membres de l’OBC. Ha estat becat per la Fundació Victoria de los Ángeles i ha obtingut el premi “El Primer Palau” 2021.
