Repertoire

The Barcelona Festival of Song is focused on the study of the Latin-American and Iberian art song repertoire. We study vocal repertoire written by composers from Spain, Portugal, and all Latin-American countries in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and indigenous languages of Latin America.

We also embrace the vocal repertoire culturally related to Iberian music; these include but are not limited to Sephardic, Arabic, and Mediterranean music.

We study repertoires of the XIX, XX, and XXI centuries, including music written by contemporary composers. Committed to supporting and promoting contemporary composers, the Festival each year commissions the composition of a new song cycle premiered during the Festival.

Apart from presenting the works by well-known composers of the repertoire, we program songs by composers of excellent quality that have not been published or are not known.

There are thousands of Iberian and Latin American art song composers that are unfortunately unknown because their works have not been published; therefore, singers and voice teachers don't know about them and don't perform them and teach them. 

For this reason, at the Barcelona Festival of Song, we give the participants all the tools to contextualize the repertoire and its composers to find the music for themselves in the future. We also publish the songs and make them available at www.mundoarts.com.