Mr. Jordi Torrent Curull
Lecturer
Jordi Torrent Curull currently serves as a Lecturer at the School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He maintains an active and multi-faceted career as a collaborative pianist.
In the world of opera, he has acted as a coach and repetiteur for the premieres of Benet Casablancas' L'Enigma di Léa (2019) and Raquel García-Tomás' Alexina B. (2023) in the Gran Teatre del Liceu (GTL), Barcelona. He has also acted in the same capacity in George Benjamin's Lessons in Love and Violence (2021). He has participated as a member of the Liceu Orchestra in productions of Puccini's Tosca, Turandot, Il Trittico, Alban Berg's Wozzek, Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, Mozart's Zauberflöte, Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, Britten's War Requiem, and Francesconi's Quartett, etc. He has also collaborated in Liceu galas and Barcelona Symphony Orchestra productions featuring singers such as Josep Carreras, Dame Sarah Connolly, Joyce DiDonato, Irene Théorin, Ian Bostridge, etc.
Experienced in flute repertoire, he has been an official pianist at the 2013 convention of the National Flute Association, USA, in New Orleans (2013), and the Spanish flute conventions in Barcelona (2012), Sevilla (2014), and Bilbao (2016). In addition, he has been featured in other conventions in Canada (Toronto, 2013), France (Paris, 2013), Spain, the UK (Warwick, 2014), and Costa Rica (San José, 2015). As a result, he has performed with a long list of world-acclaimed flutists including Sophie Cherrier, Vicens Prats, Kersten McCall, Janos Bálint, Michel Bellavance, Jean Michel Tanguy, Tadeu Coelho, Claudi Arimany, Nicola Mazzanti, Qiao Zhang, and Thomas Robertello.
In addition to flute conventions, he has appeared in the International Double Reed Society Conference in Granada, Spain, in 2018, the Asociación de Fagotistas y Oboistas de España convention in Barcelona in 2022, and the Barcelona Bass Meeting in 2011 and 2013.
Jordi Torrent Curull has closely collaborated with legendary piccolo player Jean-Louis Beaumadier. The results of this extended collaboration have appeared in three CDs: Mitteleuropa (World Piccolo 1), with works by East European composers; Postcards (World Piccolo 2) with a piece by Sojar Voglar; and Sweet Dreams (World Piccolo 3) with music by Mike Mower, Jean Michel Damase, Raymond Guiot, and Veronique Poltz. They have performed throughout countries of Europe, Canada, and the US, where they have played at the Carnegie Hall.
As a champion of new music, he has personally worked with composers including Chen Yi, George Crumb, Lukas Foss, Shulamit Ran, Alexandre Eisenberg, Jesús González, and recorded pieces by Xavier Montsalvatge, Jorge Liderman, Joâo Pedro Oliveira, Alexander Eisenberg, Josep Maria Guix, Joan Magrané, Levente Gyöngyösy, and Dimitry Tchesnokov, etc.
Jordi Torrent Curull studied with Albert Attenelle in Barcelona, Michael Davidson in the Netherlands, and Emile Naoumoff in the United States. He holds a Master's Degree of Music in Piano Performance and a Master's Degree of Music in Music Theory at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington, USA.