25. Singing About the Elements

Gloria Coma i Pedrals

Conductor, musician

Gloria Coma i Pedrals (she/her) is from Barcelona, Catalonia. She has studied conducting with Mireia Barrera, Josep Vila i Casañas, Pierre Cao, Johan Duijck, and Harry Christophers. She graduated from Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya with a Master's in Singing and Interpretation, where she studied under Margarida Natividade. She has also studied the piano, double bass, theatre, and dance.

She has worked as a prize-winning conductor of the Cor Infantil (8 to 12) Sant Esteve of Castellar del Vallès, and the Cor Jove of the Escola de Música la Guineu of Barcelona. Her work with adult choirs includes the Cor Lieder Càmera, of which she was the assistant director from 2005 to 2008.

She has played the double bass in various ensembles, and performed as a solo soprano as Barbarina and the Queen of the Night (Mozart), Lakmé (Delibes), Melissa (Händel), and in Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and Camille Saint-Saëns' Christmas Oratorio, among others.

She is a singing teacher at the monastery of Sant Benet de Montserrat and the Orfeó Català. Since 2008, she has been conductor of the Cor Infantil of the Orfeó Català (third-prize winner at the Cantonigròs festival), performing in concert halls throughout Europe.