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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).
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