Cellist and soloist. Professor at the University School of the Conservatory of Lugano, Switzerland. As a soloist he has worked with several of the best orchestras in the world. He received the 2019 National Music Prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain.

Musical advisor to the Pau Casals Foundation and artistic director of the Pau Casals International Music Festival. He has been director of Radio Classique in Paris (1991-2005) and Musiq’3 RTBF in Brussels (2006-2012).

President of the European Parliament from 1989 to 1992. He is currently president of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Spain.

Music educator and artivist. Co-Director of EducArtS, Telar de la Música, and Chaflán, a music and performing arts centre for social inclusion that was awarded the 2022 Gold Medal by the Spanish Academy of Performing Arts. Since 2026, she has served as President of the Catalan Academy of Music.

For over 20 years Jonathan Brown has been the violist of the Cuarteto Casals, with whom he has performed throughout Europe, Asia and America. He has taught viola and chamber music at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) and the Reina Sofía School of Music.

She has served as General Director of the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra and as Director of Cultural Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, among other positions. She is a member of the Executive Council of the International Music Council (IMC). Between 2014 and 2024, she was Executive President of the National Batuta Foundation. She is currently the General Director of the Bogotá Institute of Arts (Idartes).

Cellist and soloist. As a soloist she has performed with more than 50 orchestras around the world. Professor at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles and member of the artistic committee of the Queen Elisabeth Competition.

Classical music editor at the European Broadcasting Union in Geneva. Previously, she worked at Catalunya Música as a producer of concert recordings and in charge of international relations. She has collaborated regularly with the Neu Records label.

Director of the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC). She has committed her professional career to the democratization of access to artistic practice from different managerial responsibilities in the field of music schools.

Degree in piano accompaniment from the University of Southern California. Advanced studies with Monique Déschaussées. Suzuki piano teacher and teacher trainer for the European Suzuki Association, with whom she has conducted courses in several countries.