Orquestra de Cambra Catalana

A Tel Aviv University graduate, Roit holds a Master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting with Honors from the University’s Buchman-Mehta School of Music, where she studied with Yoav Talmi and Mandy Rodan. 

Prizewinner at the London Classical Soloists Conducting Competition (2014), Roit has served for 8 years as the Founder and Music Director of the Israeli Moshavot Chamber Orchestra. 

She has conducted orchestras in Israel and worldwide such as the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Beer Sheva Sinfonietta, Israel NK Orchestra, London Soloists, Zacatecas Philharmonic Orchestra, Paraguay National Orchestra, Campana Philharmonic Orchestra of Naples, Montevideo Philharmonic Orchestra and others.

She studied piano with the teachers Fernando Puchol, Ana Guijarro and José Felipe Díaz. She studied Choral Singing and Choral Conducting with the teachers Díez Huertas, Dante Andrés, Pilar Alvira, Josep Vila and H. Larson. Moreover, and Orchestra Conducting with the honourable conductors Enrique García Asensio and Octavio Calleya. 

She has been the principal conductor of Ronda's Vicente Espinel Choral, and Benalmádena's Choral. She is also the founder, and actually the principal conductor of Ronda City Choral, and she has actively collaborated with Malaga’s Young Provincial Orchestra.

She has been the guest conductor of some concerts with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Moldova as well as in Bacău, Braşov, Piteşi, Vâlcea and Craiova in Romania.

Winner of the Callosa d’en Sàrria Competition and the Ciudad de Segorbe Award.

She has interpreted the following zarzuelas: Bohemios, Cançó d’amor i de guerra, La Dogaresa, Los Claveles, Don Gil de Alcalá, Katiuska and Los Gavilanes and has appeared as Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, as Blonde in The abduction from the Seraglio, as Lucy in The Telephone, as Gilda in Rigoletto, among the other notable performances. 

She has sung as well religious and oratory pieces such as Coronation Mass and Requiem by Mozart, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Haendel’s Messiah or Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. She has performed in some of the most prestigious venue, mainly in Spain, Germany and Italy.

Successfully combining the roles of pianist and conductor, Melani Mestre has been hailed as a truly virtuoso musician.

At the age of twenty-five Mestre was appointed professor of piano at the High Music School of Catalonia  (ESMUC), giving master-classes and presentations at academic institutions around the world, combining his concert activities with teaching and musicological research. Melani Mestre is also principal conductor of the Orquesta Filarmonía Ibérica and is invited as guest conductor at some of the most distinguished orchestras around the world. 

His editions of works by Granados, Albéniz and Joaquim Malats are published by Editorial Boileau of Barcelona, who also publish Mestre’s own compositions.

He began his cello studies in Barcelona with his father Joaquim Alabau.

In 2006 he entered the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Professor Louise Hopkins, pursuing higher education and a Master in Performance and the Soloist Artist Diploma.

He has participated in the international festivals of Gstaad, City of London Festival, IMS Prussia Cove a Cornwall, Music Encounter and Academy of Santander and Aspen Music Festival USA sharing the stage with figures like Janine Jansen, Eldar Nebolsin, Antonio Meneses, Wolfram Christ, Levon Chilinguirian, Mathew Jones or Caroline Haffner. He’s member and co-soloist in the cello section of the Symphony Orchestra of the Liceu Theater in Barcelona.

She began her musical studies in Sabadell Conservatory. Subsequently she studied at the High Music School in Barcelona, the Queen Sofia College of Music in Madrid and the High Music School in Genève. She studies with Julia Gállego, Jacques Zoon and Marc Hantaï. 

She is a member of the Atria Ensemble and the Aurum Ensemble and active collaborated with Catalan Chamber Orchestra, National Symphonic Orchestra in Barcelona, Granollers Chamber Orchestra or Vallès Symphonic Orchestra. 

She is currently professor at the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona and at the Terrassa Conservatory.

Originally from Mollerussa (Spain) he started his musical studies in his hometown. Afterwards he studied at the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona and the Queen Sofia College of Music in Madrid. 

He was various awards in violin and chamber Music competitions. He was given many piano recitals and has travelled extensively with other chamber groups all over Spain and also in France, Belgium, Bulgaria, USA, Haiti, Palestine and South Africa.

He is a member of the Spanish National Orchestra where he is first violin soloist since 2018. Joan Espina is also a member of the contemporary music groups Plural Ensemble from Madrid and Zahir Ensemble from Sevilla.

Catalan soprano gets her formation with Mati Pinkas in Barcelona and she later perfects it with Renata Scotto at the Opera Studio of the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome.

She won the Premio Internazionale di Santa Chiara in Naples and International Comptetition de Belcanto Vincenzo Bellini in Paris. She has performed with Opera Assotiation of Catalonia, Chamber Opera of Navarra, Paphos Afrodite Festival in Ciprus, Castell de Peralada’s International Festival, Maestranza’s Theater of Sevilla and València’s Reina Sofia Palace of the Arts.

In 2020 she made her Italian debut in the role of Maria in Donna di Veleni, by Marco Podda, at Teatro Coccia in Novara.

Jorge Sierra Varela began his cello studies at the Conservatory of Music in Vilanova i la Geltrú, where he has born in 2003. Jorge made his debut as a soloist at the age of 17 in the Palau de la Música Catalana. Since then, he has performed in many countries including France, Holland, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

In 2020, he was the first prize winner of the International Contest from CARM in Madrid and in 2023 he won second prize in the Slava International Cello Competition. He is currently studying the Bachelor Degree of Music with professor Lluís Claret at Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona. 

Jorge Sierra performs with a Charles Adolph Gand cello (1854), kindly ceded by the Ferrer Salat Foundation.