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The Catalan choral conductor, Esteve Nabona i Guarro, completed his higher degree in horn at the Conservatori Superior de Música de Barcelona Vicent Aguilar and studied choral conducting with Manuel Cabero (1971-1982). He has also received choral conducting lessons from Gaby Baltès, Joan Company, Pierre Cao and Mireia Barrera, and chamber music lessons from Thomas Indermulhe, Wolfgang Meyer and Paul van Zelm.
Esteve Nabona has been the director of several choirs, notably the Cor Jove of the Orfeó Català (2003-2022), Cor de Cambra Ars Subtilior (1986-1992), Cor Albada de l'Agrupació Cor Madrigal (1995-2007), Cor Diaula (1993-1997), Cor Jove del CEM de Terrassa (1998-2002) and l'Ensemble Vocal Cambra'16 (1998-2005). Between 2000 and 2006 he held the position of assistant director of the Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Música Catalana. In 2009 he coordinated the exchange project of teachers and conductors of the Escola Coral de l'Orfeó Català with the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation in Mumbai. Between 2010 and 2015 he was the titular conductor of the Cor Jove dels Països Catalans and between 2010 and 2022 director of the Escola Coral de l'Orfeó Català and of the social project of the Fundació Orfeó Català - Palau de la Música, Clavé XXI, which brings choral singing to entities and schools in socially vulnerable areas. He also collaborated as assistant director with the Europäischer Projektchor and also with the Cor del Gran Teatre del Liceu.
In his career as a conductor, Esteve Nabona has given concerts throughout the Catalan Countries, Castile, Basque Country, Portugal, France, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. He has also conducted several choral workshops throughout: Catalonia, Chile, Mumbai, Canary Islands, Andalusia and Asturias. He has conducted formations such as the Orquestra de Cambra Terrassa 48, Orquestra Barroca Catalana, Ensemble Instrumental Cambra 16, Ars Musicae de Mallorca, Orquestra Clàssica Nacional d'Andorra, Orquestra Camera Musicae and Ensemble Méridien.
fter having directed the Cor Jove de l'Orfeó Català for 22 years, a couple of years ago Esteve Nabona left his responsibilities at the Palau de la Música Catalana, which also included the pedagogical direction of its Escola Coral, a kind of Orfeo Catalán training ground where children and young people from the age of six are trained, and the social project Clavé XXI (of the Fundació Orfeó Català-Palau de la Música).
Currently, Esteve Nabona is the director of two chamber groups. Two years ago he resumed his work with Ensamble Vocal Cambra 16, which he had created in 1999 to make productions mainly of early music and which had been inactive for nearly a decade. On the other hand, in October 2024 he took over the direction of the female choir Scherzo, which includes 22 female voices "of a very good individual level," he explains, and which "will celebrate 35 years of operation, it is a choir that works very well and has won competitions."
His visit to Chile in 2025 a return: in 2007 he was already teaching at the la Universidad Católica, invited by the remembered professor Víctor Alarcón. Now he returns, within the Escuela Internacional de Profesores Visitantes, to teach a course on repertoire and choral direction in January 2025. |
