Voice,
piano and poetry are the tenets of her work. She lays a solid musical
foundation allowing her to pursue her artistic career by researching
new possibilities of voice expression. She looks into and puts forth
different ways to apply voice to the musical realm. Either through electroacoustic,
multiple elements or simply by means of vocal polyphonies.
Through her role as a singer, she explores other life
paths that lead her to act as a performer. Her robust
musical knowledge also makes it possible for her to develop a wide range
of teaching activities.
As a solo singer, she publishes two albums:
- -Frec
a Frec [Close By] (2000). Catalan contemporary poetry turned
into jazzy and Mediterranean forms by composers such as Jorge Sarraute,
Francesc Capella and herself.
- -Dies
Diferents [Different
Days] (2003). Musical collection of places, people, popular songs
and vocal tracks, poetry and chants from afar.
- -Lent, Lent... Corrent! Els Temperaments de la Veu.- 2009. Revolves around some temperaments and life scenarios expressed through voice, the magic of words, sound and the power of music.
She has sung on a myriad stages and a number of festivals, including
GREC Festival (Barcelona), Barcelona Auditorium, Sala Clamores (Madrid),
Sala del Arte (Toledo), L’Espai de Dansa i Música de la
Generalitat (Barcelona), Festival de Peralada, Maestranza (Sevilla),
Palacio de Festivales (Santander), etc.
She has been invited to several international music festivals: Toronto:
National Gallery, Quebec (Canada), Essex (England), Amsterdam: Ijesbraker,
Maastrich, Breda (the Netherlands), Beirut (Lebanon), Bayonne, Lyon,
Perpignan (France). On January 2006, she has been invited by the north
american artist Meredith Monk to sing at the New York’s
theater, Carnegie Hall (USA).
Always open to cooperating with other musicians and especially with
artists coming from the dance, poetry, drama or plastic arts fields,
she has been on a stage all along. She has sung together with Maria
del Mar Bonet, Carles Santos, Agustí Fernández, Xavier
“Liba” Villavecchia, Joan Saura, Xavier Maristany, Josep
M. Balanyà, Gabriel Brncic, Francesc Capella, Manel Camp, Eduardo
Reck Miranda, Walter Thompson, Beñat Achiary, Jean Jacques Lemêtre,
Carme Canela, Paca Rodrigo, etc. And she has also performed and played
hand in hand with Angel Pawlowsky, Lluís Pascual, Yago Pericot,
Comediants, Mont Plans, Sol Picó, Constanza Brncic Frederic Amat,
Joan Baixas, Oriol Broggi, etc.
She just presented her last musical project MARAM
TRIO(psalterium, hurdy gurdy and voice) at the international
festivals Torroella de Montgrí, Mercat Música Viva de
Vic i LEM. Last abril 2007 she sang at the TEATRE NACIONAL DE
CATALUNYA (National Theater of Catalonia) in Barcelona performing
her new production TEMPERAMENTSand in may she was invited
to compose and sing in a very big international project in Lyon with
Saint Fons Female Choir and the soloists Helen Chadwick, Soraya Mahdaoui,
Antonella Talamonti and Christele Rifaux (conducter): LES VOIX
LA!. During 2007 she gave a tour around several cities of Germany.
In September she presented colective SUCK: Orient Espèss:
Music Catalonia-Iran. On april 26th. she made the premier of EL MES PETIT DE TOTS at the AUDITORI of Barcelona for chidren-babys age between 3 month to 1 year old. On 2008 she presented MAPES, performance around MERCÈ RODOREDA and other poets. On Novembre 2008 she prepared for the FESTIVAL D’AUTOMNE DE NORMANDIE (France) The new creation ALALÓ with the vocal internacional grup LES VOIX LA!. And she continue performing around several towns in Europe like London, Amsterdam, Utrecht… LENT, CORRENT…! The Vocal Temperaments around vocal experimental works performed in Barcelona Sala Luz de Gas on january 2010.
She develops her teaching career through seminars, courses, and workshops
specializing in the human voice. And with that goal in mind she has
been invited to teach classes in Lyon (France), Madrid, Bayonne Conservatoire
and she has recently cooperated with Meredith Monk
in a workshop in New York (USA).
Sagarra is an active inhabitant of music in all of its myriad forms.
She has recently finished the symphonic score of her work entitled
“MIRAQUEBÉ” which was performed by the symphonic
big band (50 musiciens) , Barcelona Municipal Band, as commissioned
by the LEM International Festival in Barcelona. And “ASGADRUP”
(Per aquí) chamber music for The Barcelona Brass Quintet
Metall.
She was conducting and leading a weekly radio show called VOX
POPULI addressing the world of the voice on Catalunya
Música, National radio station.
Outstanding in her education is her piano, musical language, harmony,
counterpoint and XX century composition training. She pursues Singing
Studies with Maria del Carmen Bustamante at the Liceu Conservatoire
and with Lucia Meewsen in Haarlem (the Netherlands). Over a period of
three years she complements that background at the Sweelinck Conservatorium
in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and attends classes at the Guildhall
School in London.