Coral Esperit Cantaire
Her first choir in Barcelona. Organist and pianist Francesc Busquets, a friend and colleague in many musical activities, accompanied her on the organ on many occasions.
Choral conducting, concerts and juries
Voices together
Since 1999 Carmen has brought her vocal technique to the choirs she conducts, the stages where she sings and the jury tables of international festivals.
“Choral conducting, once again, shows me its best side: it is noble and rewarding.”Carmen Moreno · 2012
Her choirs
Every chorister treated as a soloist
Carmen vocalises the choir for half an hour before every rehearsal and every concert, watches each singer and corrects on the spot. For her, the key to a choir lies in its vocal technique, not in the difficulty of the pieces.
Coral Nova de Cornellà
“One of the best experiences I have had in choral conducting.” With Carmen the choir prepared Carmina Burana for its 25th anniversary, toured Asturias and Galicia, and has been heard in Italy, Poland, Austria, the Vatican and Andorra.
Cantoría Re-Quinto
A female chamber group created by Carmen to perform traditional music from the Americas, especially South America, and early music. It rehearses in the crypt of the Sagrada Família and brings together voices from Japan, Ukraine, Colombia, Venezuela, Poland, Bulgaria, Chile, Mexico and Germany.
Cantoría Re-Quinto
A name with two meanings
Carmen chose the name after an instrument: the requinto, found in almost every South American country. And also because, when spoken, it suggests “the fifth D” (quinto re), a note any soloist treasures.
The group made its debut on 30 November 2014 at Sant Pau del Camp, Barcelona’s oldest Romanesque church, with Monteverdi, Gregorian chant and the Uppsala Songbook. Since then it has revived Latin American Baroque music, sung in Nahuatl and Quechua, and prepared Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël.
- 11 November 2023 · Basilica and crypt of the Sagrada Família, with Hernando Franco’s Psalmus 6 (Puebla, 1611), before the consuls of Ecuador and Mexico.
- 2 May 2024 · Jardí del Silenci, outdoors, with the birds as unexpected choristers.
- 2016 · Co-organiser of the 1st International Festival of Latin American Music Performers.
International juror
Twelve times at the jury table
Since 2008 Carmen has been invited to judge choral festivals in four countries, alongside composers and conductors such as Romuald Twardowski, Andrea Angelini and Bernhard Gfrerer.
Origin: Cumaná (Venezuela) · “Venezuela will always be my sky”
- 2008International Golden Nightingale Choir FestivalCarmarthen, Wales · her first time on a jury
- 2010–13International Krakow Choir FestivalKraków, Poland · four consecutive editions
- 20113rd International Youth Music FestivalBratislava, Slovakia
- 2014X Varsovia Cantat International FestivalWarsaw, Poland
- 2015Cantonigròs International Music FestivalVic, Catalonia · press conference at the Palau de la Música
- 201612th International Choir FestivalWarsaw, Poland
- 2018Varsovia CantatWarsaw, Poland
- 2019Cracovia SacraKraków, Poland · sacred choral music
- 202316th International Warsaw Choir FestivalChopin University, Warsaw
A choir’s success does not lie in the difficulty of the pieces it chooses, but in its vocal technique.Carmen Moreno · juror in Warsaw, 2016
The soprano
Barcelona’s stages
A light lyric soprano, Carmen has sung Handel, Mozart, Puccini, Dvořák, Villa-Lobos, Schumann and traditional Catalan song with harp, piano and cello.
L’Auditori de Barcelona
The “Cantilena” from Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5.
Sala Mas
The “Sol y Luna” recital: García Abril, Rusalka and the Queen of the Night.
Auditori de Cal Figueres
“D’Istanbul a Barcelona, a lyric anthology”, with baritone Suat Arikan and tenor Félix Merino.
Casal Espriu and Auditori AXA
With harpist Mercè Guilera: Handel, Puccini and traditional Catalan songs, also at the Gaudilart festival.
Pedralbes and the Sant Pau site
An intimate recital at the Monastery and a concert in the Pau Gil Modernista Hall with pianist Lluís Avendaño.
Tributes to Francesc Busquets
Schumann’s Widmung for his 85th birthday and, in 2020, the surprise premiere of an Ave Maria he had composed himself.
Gallery
Moments from the archive
Photographs from Carmen’s personal archive. Click any of them to enlarge it and use the arrow keys to browse.
Your first lesson
Your voice already knows how to sing. Let’s show it how.
Tell Carmen what you want to sing and what you find difficult. She will suggest a starting point and a schedule that suits you, online or in Barcelona.