Jordi Camell (Llorenç del Penedès, 1959) has performed throughout Spain, Europe and America. An all-round musician of great experience, he studied with Carme Flexas in Tarragona, with Miquel Farré in Barcelona and with Mario Curcio in London. Winner of various competitions, in 1984 he received his Diplôme Supérieur d'Exécution in the category of “premier nommé” at the École Normale de Musique de Paris.

He has worked with various artists and his search for new repertories has led him to play with contemporary music groups such as Barcelona 216, Solistas de Ibercamera and the Orquestra de Cambra Teatre Lliure, performing throughout Europe. In 1992, his debut concert in the Ibercamera series of Barcelona was unanimously praised by the press. He has performed as soloist with the OBC de Barcelona, the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallés, the Filharmonia de Cambra de Barcelona, the Orquestra Simfònica Empordà-Llenguadoc-Rosselló and the Orquesta de la Ciudad de Granada, among others, performing the concertos of Clara Schumann, Mozart, Shostakovich, Poulenc, Gershwin, Albéniz, Brahms, Grieg, etc. He has played under the direction of conductors such as Bernhard Güeller, Salvador Brotons, Ernest Martínez-Izquierdo and Josep Pons.

A pianist open to all styles, in 2002 he took part in the first performances, in Berlin's Hebbel Theatre and Barcelona's Teatre Lliure, of the production Preludis by the choreographer/dancer Cesc Gelabert, later accompanying a solo of his throughout Spain, Europe and the United States. Since 2006 he has been on tour in Spain (more than 40 performances have been given so far) with the actress Vicky Peña in a Kurt Weill recital. Recently he has presented the first performance of his own work: X-Ray, Radiografia d'un paisatge interior ( X-Ray of an Interior Landscape ), which incorporates a video projection.

His last CD Before and After Iberia (Columna Música) containing Isaac Albéniz works has been presented in Liceu in July 2009 with great critics. Among his other recordings should be mentioned the CDs of piano music by Gerhard together with some of Granados' Goyescas , the Clarinet Sonatas by Bernstein, Brotons and Poulenc with Josep Fuster, a piano recital which includes works by Viñes, Poulenc and Mousorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition , and the Binomis CD (2008) with the Cobla Sant Jordi Ciutat de Barcelona and a number of other distinguished pianists.

Beside his concertizing activities, Jordi Camell is intensely involved with teaching. He is currently Professor of Piano and Director of the Department of Classical and Contemporary Music at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya ( ESMUC ).

Updated: July 2009