Artists
Estudia piano clàssic, direcció coral i orquestral a l’ESMUC i cursa un màster en Pianista acompanyant a la Guildhall School of Music and Drama de Londres. També a Londres, comença a dirigir assistint Alice Farnham i Eamonn Dougann. L’any 2016 s’estableix de nou a Catalunya, com a pianista i assistent de direcció de les corals Fòrum Vocal i Coral Canigó. El 2018 assumeix la direcció del cor de cambra ARSinNOVA i el 2019, la del cor de cambra NOCTES, amb qui obté el 2n premi al Certamen Coral Ciudad de Granada (2023) i grava música inèdita de Johan Duijck. Des de 2022 col·labora amb l’Orfeó Català. Ha dirigit produccions al Teatre Lliure, el Mercat de les Flors i festivals destacats com Jardins de Pedralbes, el Mercat de la Música Viva de Vic i el Festival de Música Religiosa de Vic.
Nascuda el 1996 a Hondarribia, és una violista formada a la Hochschule für Musik de Dresden, on va estudiar amb la professora Pauline Sachse i va obtenir el màster amb distincions. Ha perfeccionat les seves habilitats en música de cambra amb mestres com Tabea Zimmermann i Heime Müller. Amb una àmplia experiència orquestral, ha tocat amb l’Ensemble Resonanz i la Mahler Chamber Orchestra, i és membre titular de l'Orquestra Estatal d'Hamburg des del 2017. El 2023, va rebre el tercer premi al concurs Oskar Nedbal a Praga i és membre de l’Amaris Quartett des de 2020.
Born in la Garriga (Barcelona) in 1997, she started playing the cello at six years. She continued her studies at Leopold Mozart Zentrum from Augsburg University. She was artist-in-residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo and is currently studying at Stauffer Center for Strings in Cremona. She has performed in festivals and concert halls such as Festival Pablo Casals 2017 in Prades, Supercello Festival 2018 in Beijing, L'Auditori an the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, or the Fundación Juan March in Madrid. As a soloist, she has performed with the Orquestra Camera Musicae, the Bruckner Akademie Orchester, or the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès. She has been awarded in several competitions, among them the Pablo Casals International Award (2016) and El Primer Palau (2020). Until 2018, she played a cello made by Marc Laberte (1921) which belonged to Pau Casals. She is currently playing a cello made by luthier David Bagué in 2019.
Rising star Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha won the Song Prize at the 2021 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and is a current BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. Most recently, Rangwanasha was awarded the 2024 Herbert von Karajan Prize. In 2024/25, Rangwanasha will perform, among others, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Verdi Requiem at the Wiener Konzerthaus, Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra, Rossini Stabat Mater with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra or Strauss Vier letzte Lieder with Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León. Rangwanasha has also performed Barber Knoxville: The Summer of 1915, Mendelssohn Symphony No. 2, Mahler Das Klagende Lied, Tippett A Child of Our Time, and other roles including Élisabeth de Valois (Don Carlos) or Elettra (Idomeneo).
Matilda Sterby has been named one of OperaWire's Top Ten Rising Stars 2024 and has quickly established herself as one of the most prominent young Swedish singers. Her impressive career start includes performances at Volksoper Wien, Staatsoper Hannover, Malmö Opera and the Gothenburg Opera, performing the roles of Mařenka (The Bartered Bride) Micaëla (Carmen), Fünfte Magd (Elektra), Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), or Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte). She has also appeared in concert in, amongst others, Monteverdi’s Vespers and Beethoven's 9th Symphony. She completed her study at University College of Opera in Stockholm in 2019, and is the winner of Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music Competition 2024, the Schymberg Award 2022, a finalist in the Royal Swedish Academy of Music's prestigious Solist Prize 2024, and a recipient of the esteemed Birgit Nilsson Scholarship 2024.