With this orchestra, made independent in 1991 under his direction, he cultivated the musical exchange offering programs based on the Central European, and Hispanic music of the XX century: that was Diagonal Camerata Wien-Barcelona.
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El 1992 el contracta la Wiener Kammeroper per primera vegada com a director convidat, en una sèrie de col·laboracions ocasionals al llarg d'aquell decenni.
In 1992 he was engaged by the Wiener Kammeroper (Vienna Chamber Opera) for the first time as guest conductor, in a series of occasional collaborations along that decade. In 1993 it was hired at the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck, as a conductor and correpetitor, for three consecutive seasons. He has also carried out assistant's work and has conducted in the Opernhaus de Graz. In the Volksoper (Popular Opera) of Vienna he got, in the season 96-97, an assisting conductor's position, after having been guest conductor since 1994. In 1997, after a competitive exam, he won the post of First Kapellmeister at the town of Pforzheim (Germany), a place in which he lived for six months.
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Since he returned to Catalonia he has conducted the absolute première of the opera Ruleta (Roulette), by E. Palomar, in Barcelona and in the Festival de Otoño (Festival of Autumn) in Madrid, as well as three extensive tours of concerts with the Philharmonics of Craiova and of Timisoara: performing the Mass in C minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the German Requiem by Johannes Brahms, and the Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi.
On the other hand, with his group Exaudi nos he has performed music of Palestrina, Johann Sebastian Bach, Heinrich Schütz, Claudio Monteverdi, Georg Friedrich Händel, Arvo Pärt and Francesc Valls.
As a pianist, and especially as accompanist to singers, he has given performances in many countries of Europe, and toured Japan in 1986. Besides his main dedication to vocal music, he has conducted a lot of symphonic concerts as guest conductor in Austria, Bulgaria, Romania, Germany and Spain, many of them radio and TV broadcasted.
As an educator he began teaching languages: Spanish in a private institute, and Catalan in the University of Vienna. He is now a teacher at the ESMUC (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya) in Barcelona, and is responsible for courses on 'How to listen to music', at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Barcelona.
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This year's course on How to listen to music which is taking place at the Idec of the Pompeu Fabra University, consists of 14 sessions. Started last December, it will run every monday evening till April 2008. For further information,
click on this link to the UPF
It should be added that, on the same subject and with the same title, Joan Grimalt has just had a book published by Editorial Dux in Barcelona. The book is being presented these days (January-February 2008).
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He has also offered many courses on sacred music at the UB, at the Joan Maragall's Foundation, at the Superior Institute of Religious Sciences in Barcelona and in their homonym in Vic. Since 2004 he is giving a series of courses at CCCB on the music of the twentieth century, to critically review our more recent legacy. Finally, he is a professor at UIC since 2006.
He contributes also to magazines like Transversal, Revista musical catalana, or the newspapers Avui, El 9 nou and Diari de Terrassa. At present he is preparing his doctoral thesis on the Gustav Mahler's symphonies from a semiotic point of view. He has also participated in programs combining music and literature, as for example with Monika Zgustová and Jordi Boixaderas (on Russian poetry).
Finally, as a composer, Joan Grimalt wrote a musical and theatrical adaptation of the novel by F.M. Dostoievsky, The idiot, which was given its first performance in the framework of the "Festival GREC de Barcelona" of the year 1999. The following year and in the same festival, he premièred a new commission: the music for Collar de cranis, by Joan Brossa, produced by Beno Mazzone. |
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For a more detailed information, please have a look at his curriculum |
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