GERARD CLARET
Artistic director
Leader/director

Gerard Claret was born in Andorra in 1951. From the beginning of his professional career over thirty-five years ago, he has been known in his twofold capacity as a performer and a teacher.

Winner of Belgian Radio-Television’s Tenuto competition and of the medal of the Maria Canals International Competition of Barcelona, he has performed with orchestras from Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Russia and Japan.

He has been conducted by Antoni Ros Marbà, Edmon Colomer, Josep Pons, Jacques Mercier, Rudolf Barshai, Peter Maag, Veronika Dudarova, Yehudi Menuhin, Sergio Comissiona, Ignacio Yepes and Marzio Conti, among others.

Gerard Claret has recorded works by Bach for violin.

He is a founder of the Barcelona Music School, of the International Music Course of Vic, and of the Trio de Barcelona, with which he has recorded works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Dvorak.  From the year 2000 to 2005 he was the director of the Higher School of Music of Catalonia (ESMUC).

Since the time of its creation, he has been the artistic director of the Narciso Yepes International Music Festival of Ordino (Principality of Andorra), and he is a member of the Orfeó Català-Palau de la Música Catalana Foundation.

In 1993, Claret began a new stage in his career as the leader/director of the National Classical Orchestra of Andorra (ONCA). In September 2000 he founded the National Youth Chamber Orchestra of Andorra (JONCA) which, like the ONCA itself, is attached to the ONCA Foundation and is managed by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Andorra, and the Crèdit Andorrà Foundation. Since January 2007 he has combined his multiple professional activities with the directorship of music teaching at the Trivium space in Sant Julià de Lòria.