Divendres 6 juliol
20.00 h / Catedral
 
Pau Bordas, baix
Jordi Reguant, orgue
 
Monteverdi: Motet Ab aeterno ordinata sum / Laudate Dominum / Casanoves: Allegro (de la sonata segona) / Cazzati: In Calvaria rupe / Gallés: Andante (de la sonata cinquena) / Campra: Exaltabo te, Deus meus, rex / Baguer: Allegro con brio (de la sonata quarta) / Fiocco: Lamentatio tertia / Monteverdi: Salve o Regina / Exulta filia Sion
 


Pau Bordas was born in Barcelona and studied singing with Maria Dolors Aldea, piano and chamber music with Angel Soler, and percussion with Xavier Joaquim.
In 1983 he won the second prize in the competition held by Juventudes Musicales de España.

From 1994 to 1996 he completed a post-graduate course in Oratorio and Lied with Mark Wildman, Iain Ledingham, Robert Spencer and Paul Esswoood at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and was awarded the Advanced Diploma with merit. During the same period and also in London, he was awarded the Performer's Diploma at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has taken part in masterclasses with Robert Tier, Joan Pons, Kemal Khan and Paul Schilawsky.

Pau Bordas has been a member of the Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Música Catalana (conductor Jordi Casas), of the Choir of the Barcelona Early Music Festival (Philippe Herreweghe), and of the Capella Reial de Catalunya (Jordi Savall). He has also sung with conductors Gustav Leonhardt and Christopher Hogwood.

As soloist, Pau Bordas has sung with conductors Josep Prats, Josep Vila, Jordi Casas, Josep Pons, James Ross, Ernest Martínez Izquierdo, Salvador Brotons, Edmon Colomer, Alberto Zedda, Joanjo Mena and Laszlo Heltay.

Jordi Reguant was awarded the Premi d'honor for harpsichord at the Barcelona Municipal Conservatoire and continued his studies with Alan Curtis, Bob van Asperen and Willem Jansen at the Toulouse Conservatoire.

He has played with a number of orchestras and ensembles such as the Capella Reial, the Concertino d'Amsterdam, the Dresdener Barocksolisten and the Teatre Lliure Chamber Orchestra.

He has worked with conductors and artists renowned both within Spain and internationally, such as Jordi Savall, Edmon Colomer, Josep Pons, Victor Pikaitzen, Pierre Cao, Alain Marion, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Willem Jansen, Paul Dombrecht and Gustav Leonhardt.

Jordi Reguant is founder and director of Turba Musici (medieval music) and the Capella Virelai (Spanish Renaissance). He has made recordings on CD and for the radio with these two groups.

He has also broadcast on Televisión Española, TV3, Radio Nacional de España, Catalunya Música, France Musique and elsewhere, as well as making recordings on disc for a number of different labels.
At present Jordi Reguant teaches harpsichord and chamber music at the Terrassa Professional Conservatoire (province of Barcelona).