Vocation for sharing choral singing

Pablo Larraz, conductor of the Orfeó Català and the Cor Jove, and artistic director of the Coral School.

The willingness to work together is a natural response to the fact that we share the same project as a choral family: to be references in the choral world of our home and to gain visibility internationally by ensuring the dissemination and expansion of the Catalan choral repertoire heritage, a legacy of which we are proud and responsible.

We present with enthusiasm the programming of the 2024-25 season of the Orfeó Català and the Coral School: a season in which we want to continue increasing the high artistic level achieved by the Orfeó and the choirs of the School in recent years and working on common projects and strengthening bonds between all the formations.

We firmly believe that the individual development of each formation, with its own challenges, enriches them and at the same time contributes to strengthening the bond between all. This season, we want to consolidate and continue deepening the common pedagogical project of the Orfeó and the Coral School in singing and music language classes, while continuing to work on more shared projects, such as the Saint Stephen Concert, "The Veil of the Temple" by John Taverner, Poulenc's "Stabat Mater" with the Chamber Choir and the Youth Choir, Mahler's Second Symphony with the Orfeó Català and the Chamber Choir.

As a novelty of this season, related to the choral pedagogical project, we are particularly excited to present the Lluís Millet Scholarship, a training scholarship that we have launched to complement the education of young people in the field of conducting and with which we want them to have the opportunity to train with our conducting team and our choral formations. The willingness to work together is a natural response to the fact that we share the same project as a choral family: to be references in the choral world of our home and to gain visibility internationally by ensuring the dissemination and expansion of the Catalan choral repertoire heritage, a legacy of which we are proud and responsible. Our activity is not understood if it does not have a vocation to share, to infect and to reach every corner of the territory.

That is why we continue to open the Palau to other groups and choirs, a fact that is expressed to the fullest in the Coral Network project, which we have been consolidating year after year and for which this season we continue to bet, along with more shared projects with other choirs. This season we will also collaborate with orchestras and groups from all over the country, such as the Catalonia National Orchestra (OBC), Vallès Symphony Orchestra, and the University of Valencia Orchestra, among others. This vocation to share extends beyond our borders through international projects, among which this year highlights the collaboration of the Orfeó Català with conductor Daniel Harding to perform Mahler's Second Symphony and the trip to Stockholm.

With all these proposals, and those that will come throughout the season, this is how we want to continue working from the Orfeó Català and the Coral School to offer the best of ourselves to all the people to whom, like us, music reaches, fills, and gives meaning.

The Choirs project 2024-25