Bio

Musician. Orchestra & Gospel Choir Conductor. Educator. Manresa 1959.

Masters Degree in Music of Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya. 2010.

Conducting

  • Barcelona Gospel Messengers ( Bcn). From 2008. Founder
  • Esclat Gospel Singers (Manresa). 2000/ 2025. Founder
  • Goizargi Gospel Choir ( Euskadi). From 2017. Founder
  • Cors de Gospel del Conservatori del Liceu (Barcelona). 2008/ 2019.
  • Barcelona Big Latin Band .From 1996. Founder

Creation, director and performance arranger

  • Symphonic Gospel. Banda Municipal de Barcelona (dir: José Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana) & Bcn Gospel Messengers
  • To Amy. Andrea Motis & Bcn Gospel Messengers
  • Gospel meets Flamenco. The Lamento. Ramon Escalé Group
  • Listen to the music!. Bcn Gospel Messengers
  • Indians. Música d’anada i tornada . Strings Camerata Bacasis, RE Latin trio and Marta Riera
  • Gospel meets Latin. London Community Gospel Choir, Messengers and Barcelona Big Latin Band
  • From the Heart of Africa. Esclat Gospel Singers & Barcelona Big Latin Band
  • One Heart Concerts. Bcn Gospel Messengers & Esclat Gospel Singers & One Heart Choir
  • Pavana Club. Barcelona Big Latin Band
  • Be Here Now. George Harrison Tribute. Bcn Gospel Messengers
  • Suite Llatina 0.7. Barcelona Big Latin Band
  • From roots to Heaven. Esclat Gospel Singers & Kessengue Ensemble

Artistic Collaborations

  • Gospel:
    • Bazil Meade & London Community Gospel Choir (UK), Didier Likeng (BEL), Donald Lawrence (USA), Theresa Kis (Congo) Smokie Norful (USA), Daniel Thomas (UK), Linda Tillery & the Cultural Heritage Choir (USA). Andrea Encinas (UK), Isaac Cates (USA), Lurine Cato (UK), Trey McLaughlin and The Sounds of Zamar (USA), Monica Bernassola (Itàlia ), Jason Taylor (USA), Rosemary Cosby (USA), James Numbere (NIG)
  • Latin jazz:
    • Barcelona Big Latin Band & Chucho Valdés, Omara Portuondo, Paquito d’Rivera, Jerry González, Lucrecia, Telva Rojas, José Luís Cortés “El Tosco”.
  • Other:
    • Banda Municipal de Barcelona, La Locomotora Negra, Spanish Brass Quintet, Andrea Motis, Banda Municipal de València, Dagoll Dagom, Big Mama, Jordi Molina, La Vella Dixieland, Banda Municipal de Bilbao, Banda de la Lira Ampostina, Paula Domínguez, Els Comediants, Camerata Bacasis, Raimon, Txarango, Cor Jove Amics de la Unió

Events direction:

  • Campus Gospel Rajadell. 17 editions.
  • One Heart Gospel Festival.  3 editions
  • Unity. 400 voices for peace. First edition on 2018. 
  • Zuia Gospel Camp. First edition on 2022. 

Solidary collaborations:

  • Great Gospel Singers at Chazon Children Center a Molo (Kenya)
  • Safari Children’s Choir at New life School. Entebbe (Uganda)

Education, direction and founder:

  • Messengers Gospel College (Barcelona) 2014-2019.
  • Izar Gospel Unity (Euskadi) 2019-2023.
  • Arteta Gospel School (Barakaldo) 2017-2019
  • Conservatorio Superior del Liceu. Choir conductor. 2006-2019.
  • Workshops: I have taught more than 400 workshops mostly in Catalunya, but also in Menorca, Madrid, Sevilla, Vitoria, Mallorca, Burgos, València, Almería, Miranda de Ebro, Bilbao, Barakaldo, Getxo, Portugalete, Plentzia, Eivissa, Tenerife, Lanzarote, La Palma, Pamplona, així com a Alemanya, França, Itàlia, Suïssa, Sardenya, Anglaterra, Kenya i Uganda.

  • British Gospel Arts (London)
  • Music Mission Trips (USA)

Discography as a leader:

  • Barcelona Gospel Messengers “Listen to the music“
  • Barcelona Gospel Messengers “What’s going on?” Messengers sing Motown
  • Barcelona Gospel Messengers “Go higher “
  • Barcelona Gospel Messengers “Be Here Now. George Harrison Tribute“
  • Barcelona Gospel Messengers& Paula Domínguez “Gospel meets flamenco “
  • Barcelona Big Latin Band. “Live ” 
  • Barcelona Big Latin Band. “Bueno pa Gozar ”  ,
  • Barcelona Big Latin Band. “Suite Llatina 0.7 ”
  • Barcelona Big Latin Band. Pavana Club “
  • Esclat Gospel Singers. “Esclat Gospel ”
  • Esclat Gospel Singers & Big Band de la Unió Musical del Bages “Plaça Reial”
  • Esclat Gospel Singers “The Gospel Machine “
  • Esclat Gospel Singers & Big Mama “From Roots to Heaven”
  • Esclat Gospel Singers “Spirituals”
  • Esclat Gospel Singers.” From the Heart of África “
  • Jordi Molina & Ramon Escalé . “ Mosaic ”
  • Jordi Molina & Ramon Escalé. “ Caurus ”
  • Escalé & Ribalta & Zamora . “ ERZ Cafè ”

Awards

  • Jazz Musicians Association Award 2001. Best Big Band conductor.
  • Jazz Musicians Association Award 2002. Best Big Band conductor. 
  • Enderrock Award Best Jazz Album 2013 “Pavana Club” Barcelona Big Latin Band          
  • 2017 Enderrock Award Best Jazz Album 2017 “Be Here Now: George Harrison Tribute” Barcelona Gospel Messengers.
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