JOSEP PLANELLS SCHIAFFINO, RINAT SHAHAM AND JOSEP COLOM, NEW REPRESENTATIONS
L’Impresa Management is pleased to announce that the following musicians are joining its roster for the 24-25 season.
Josep Planells Schiaffino
General Management
Trained at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin, this young, award-winning Valencian composer and conductor has collaborated with ensembles such as the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Basel Sinfonietta, Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, Orquesta de Valencia, Deutsche Symphonie Orchester Berlin, and Bayerisches Landesjugendorchester. He has also worked at theaters and festivals including the Staatsoper Berlin, Salzburg Festspiele, Opéra Comique Paris, Gran Teatre del Liceu, and the Teatre Principal de Palma, where he conducted Die Zauberflöte, as well as Theater Basel, where he led two performances of Xennakis’ Oresteia with stage direction by Calixto Bieito. He recently made a highly successful debut with the Orquesta Nacional de España and the Bilbao Sinfonia Orkestra. (“A conductor I won’t easily forget.” Xoan M. Carreira, Mundo Clásico, debut with the ONE, June 2024)
Rinat Shaham
Spain and Portugal
A frequent collaborator with Simon Rattle, with whom she recently performed concerts with the Bayerischen Rundfunk in Munich and Bamberg and with whom she will reunite next season with the London Symphony; Marin Alsop, with whom she sang Das Lied von der Erde by Mahler with the National Radio Symphony Orchestra of Poland this year; and Karina Canellakis, with whom she recently recorded Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. This season, Rinat Shaham, who has lived in Barcelona for several years, will also perform with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Lin Liao (Folk Songs by Berio) and in two productions at the Bayerische Staatsoper (Dido and Aeneas directed by Valentin Uryupin and Pénélope by Fauré with Susanna Mälkki). In Spain, she has frequently sung with the Barcelona Symphony, Euskadi Orkestra Sinfonikoa, and last season starred as Carmen at the Gran Teatre del Liceu with Josep Pons and Calixto Bieito, a role in which she is one of the world’s leading specialists, having sung it in over 45 productions worldwide (Montreal, Rome, Stuttgart, Berlin, Hamburg, Baden Baden, Hong Kong, St. Petersburg, Vienna Staatsoper, etc.).
Josep Colom
General Management
Josep Colom is one of the most remarkable pianists on the current European scene and one of the most distinguished voices in Spanish pianism in recent decades. Winner of the National Music Prize in 1998, following his debut at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris in 1979, Le Monde wrote: “a performance that makes one forget the rest.” Since then, he has toured the five continents regularly to give recitals and perform concerts with orchestras (English Chamber Orchestra, RAI orchestras of Naples and Maastricht, Gulbenkian, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Strasbourg Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphoniker, Zagreb Philharmonic, and almost all Spanish orchestras) as well as collaborating in chamber music with a wide variety of ensembles and performers. His latest recording with Eudora, featuring Mozart’s Sonatas K. 333, 457, 545, and 576, recorded in 2023, has just been released, with Luca Chiantore noting: “This album presents Mozart’s music as we have never heard it in the entire history of phonography.”
Recently, he has performed in Mexico and Portugal, as well as at the Scherzo Great Performers Cycle, Fundación March, Soloists and Chamber Music Cycle of Salamanca, and Palau de la Música de Valencia.
