Our history

The Lieder Càmera chamber choir was founded in Sabadell in 1990 by its current conductor, Josep Vila i Casañas. Its members are singers with a solid background in music and long experience in choral singing.Since Septembre 2005, Glòria Coma i Pedrals is its Assistant Conductor.

Since its early days, the main goal of Lieder Càmera has been to produce programmes of a high standard, both a cappella and with instrumental accompaniment, with special attention paid to the balance and fullness of the sound, the unity of expression and phrasing, precision in the melody and rigour in the performance.

The Lieder Càmera has worked with renowned instrumental groups, including the Teatre Lliure Orchestra, the Clemencic Consort, the Cadaqués Orquestra, the Andorra National Chamber Orchestra, the Catalan Baroque Orchestra, The Sixteen, the Drottingholm Baroque Ensemble, the Baroque Orchestra of Seville, the Barcelona and Catalunya National Symphonic Orchestra, the Vallès Symphonic Orchestra and the Catalunya National Youth Orchestra.

Since 1993, it has collaborated with the Castell de Peralada International Festival as the festival’s choir, participating in the productions of the operas The Elixir of Love, The Turk in Italy, Pepita Jiménez, Abduction from the Seraglio, Carmen, The Barber of Seville, Il Tabarro, Orpheus and Eurydice, Electra and Madame Butterfly.

In the summer of 1997, it took part in the show by Carles Santos La pantera imperial, to great critical and popular acclaim. The choir has performed this work in some of the most important festivals of music and drama in Spain and Europe, like the Edinburgh International Festival.

A number of eminent conductors have conducted Lieder Càmera, among them A. Ros Marbà, Salvador Mas, Edmon Colomer, Salvador Brotons, J. L. López Cobos, Arturo Tamayo, Ana Isabel Ramos, Eric Ericson, Frieder Bernius, Günter Theuring, G. Noseda, Lutz Köler, Franz Paul Decker, Trevor Pinnock, Helmut Rilling i Harry Christophers.

In 1997 the choir won first prize at the 2nd Mestre Joan Just Choral Singing Competition, which was held in Igualada, and in 1999 it won first prize in the 2nd International “Europe and its songs" Competitions, held in Barcelona.

The Lieder Càmera has so far recorded four compact discs, two of them dedicated to traditional and popular songs from Catalonia, a third one devoted to music for choir and piano, featuring the pianist Adolf Pla, and the fourth one with poems by Miquel Desclot set to music by Josep Vila i Casañas.

Among the activities performed in 2005-2006 season, there is the performance of the Chichester Psalms by L. Bernstein, within the program "Christianity and Judaism in America", conducted by Xavier Puig; and the spectacle "Lieder i el Comte Arnau, cançons de bogeries", conducted by Glòria Coma and Enric Arquimbau, based on the reading of highlights from the poem of the Comte Arnau, by Josep Mª de Segarra and popular and traditional catalan songs.