Håvard Enstad
Håvard Enstad, born 31.12.84, is a pianist, cellist and composer from Norway. He started to play piano at the age of 8, and also started composing at a very young age. At the age of 18 he entered the Norwegian Academy of Music to study with professor Jens Harald Bratlie, and was there for 3 years before he left to study one year as an exchange student at Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya in Barcelona, graduating in spring 2008 with excellent reviews.
Broad-minded musician
Apart from playing classical music, Håvard is a very broad-minded musician. He has participated in many different musical productions in many different styles. At the age of 16 he started playing the cello which now allows him also to work as a cellist.
Lately his great interest for folk/traditional music from all over the world has led him to participate in folk festivals, playing in different folk groups and touring in Sweden, Croatia, Slovenia and Belgium. Håvard is currently part of many different groups/ensembles where he both acts as pianist and cellist, including his collaborations with Neila Benbey, an Algerian singer based in Barcelona, HAV folk trio, playing music from Balkan, Scandinavia and Armenia.
In 2011 he founded the Barcelona Ethnic Band, a group who plays traditional music from all around the world, and has performed all over Catalunya, releasing their first album in 2013.
His artistic experience, also leading Ethno programs in various countries, moved him to become one of the initiators of Ethno Catalonia in 2016, for which he is one the Artistic Mentors.
Pau Baiges
Pau Baiges began to learn music in general and the piano in particular when he was six. He holds certificates from the ESMUC, the Richard Strauss Konservatorium of Munich and the Koniklijk Conservatorium of Brussels. He has also studied jazz and improvisation at the Barcelona Taller de Músics and Traditional Music of many countries.
Director in several stage productions
Pau has performed as a soloist and in chamber ensembles and has directed several stage productions, including operas, in different parts of Europe. He has won prizes for piano and for chamber music at several music festivals and has also been awarded various grants during his training. He lived in Belgium from 2011 to 2015 and worked as a teacher and pianist at the “La Petite Maison” psychiatric hospital in Chastre, as part of the Equinox socio-artistic project directed by Maria Joao Pires. He is one of the founders of the Barcelona Ethnic Band, in which he has been playing since 2010.
Having played the accordion at Ethno Music Campus/Festivals in Sweden, Croatia, Slovenia and Portugal, Pau became one of the initiators of Ethno Catalonia 2016, and also one of its Artistic Mentors.
Ana Conceição
Ana was born in Porto, Portugal, and started to study the cello at the age of 13. She graduated from her bachelor of classical music in Lisbon and began improvising on the cello while taking jazz singing lessons.
She has played and sung in many different projects from rock and reggae to electronic and traditional folk music. She composed soundtracks for short films and contemporary dance shows and she directed and arranged traditional Portuguese songs for a choir.
Ana performs and collaborates frequently with Casa da Música
working both in creating shows and artistic community projects. She is one of the artistic directors of Orquestra de Famílias de Matosinhos, an orchestra composed by families.
Ana’s Ethno journey began in 2018 in Portugal. The next year, she participated in Ethno Portugal again and was selected for Ethnofonik ’19. In 2020 she participated in Ethno France and in 2022 she was invited to be artistic mentor for the voices, continuing with this role since then.
Pol Ribó Vivancos
Born in Barcelona, Pol Ribó begins his bond with music at a very young age to as a dancer; also at home paternal grandparents of Guissona, listening to his grandfather Joan playing the tenora and tible. He studies drums and percussion and deepens his studies at the school of modern music of Badalona. He graduated from ESMUC in the specialty of jazz drums.
He has played in projects and productions of all kinds: singer-songwriters, jazz ensembles, multidisciplinary artists ensembles, productions of the Auditorium of Barcelona, the Museum of Contemporary Art, theatrical performances… He is composer of the soundtrack for the film “Free Tours: Treballar per propines” and has participated in a variety of recordings with various artists such as Rita Payés, Magalí Datzira, Julia Rodríguez or the film director Pau Durà.
Since 2017, that his interest towards traditional roots music through percussion, singing or dance has been increasing and he continues to learn from the languages, touches and expressions of traditional percussion in general and of the Iberian Peninsula in particular, through formations and workshops with artisans like Juana Catalan and musicians like Aleix Tobias. He has played with Eliseo Parra in a production of the Grandes Conjuntos and with saxophonist Haizea Matriartu’s Folketik Jazzera Ensemble where 9 musicians reinterpret some of the classics of Basque folklore. She is also part of the project BAC – Traditional Roots Music and Dance – along with Judit Neddermann i Pere Seda.