Address: Carrer del Raval, 1, 08370 Calella, Barcelona, Spain

Església de Santa Maria i Sant Nicolau is a church in the town of Calella that was built in 1747 after the tower of the original building from 1564 collapsed and destroyed the building. It is built in a neoclassical style and was designed by Josep Morato. After the total destruction and the burning of the interior in 1936, the church was rebuilt from 1939 and finally reopened on September 23, 1951. The church belongs to the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia. The church is illuminated by the large rose window of the main facade and two windows (rear) on eachside of the ship.

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Address: Pla de la Seu, s/n, 08002 Barcelona, Spain

The Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia, also known as Barcelona Cathedral, is the Gothic cathedral and seat of the Archbishop of Barcelona. It was built from the 13th to 15th century and in the late 19th century the neo-Gothic facade was constructed over the inconspicuous exterior that was common to Catalan churches. There are two chapels in each section of the naves, encircling the entire basilica.

The roof of the Cathedral is notable for its gargoyles, featuring a wide range of animals, both domestic and mythical. From 1968 to 1972 the cathedral was restored.

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Address: Plaça del Pi, 7, 08002 Barcelona, Spain

Santa Maria del Pi, meaning "St. Mary of the Pine Tree", is a 14th-century Gothic church in Barcelona and is situated on the Plaça del Pi, in the Barri Gòtic district of the city. There are unsubstantiated claims that there was an early Christian church located in 413. For a certainty it is known that in 987 there existed a church outside the city walls and to the west of Barcelona. This was a small Romanesque church dedicated to the Blessed Lady of the Pine Tree (one of the titles of the Virgin Mary). The church was built between 1319 and 1391. The style of the church was Catalan Gothic, with a single nave almost devoid of ornamentation. The church has six bells, of which the largest is "Antònia". In 1936 the church was gutted by a fire and was later restored.

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Address: Carrer Esglesia 91, 08370 Calella, Barcelona, Spain

Sala Mozart is a cinema as well as theater and musical center in the inner city of Calella. It is one of the oldest cinemas in Spain and was opened already in 1904. During the last year, the hall was rebuilt after more than 100 years of running.

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Graduated from the Conservatori Superior Municipal de Música de Barcelona in Piano and Composition with several honorary prizes, he studied piano mainly with Carme Poch and Luiz de Moura, and has received advice from Claude Helffer, Paul Badura Skoda, Aquilles Delle Vigne, Germain Mounier and Joaquin Achúcarro, among others; he has worked on chamber music with Àngel Soler, Pere Busquets and Manuel Garcia Morante; and composition, with James Sellars, Carles Guinovart and David Padrós, as well as occasionally with Jonathan Harvey, Joan Guinjoan, José Manuel López López, Walter Zimmermann, Agustí Charles and Lleonard Balada.

He obtained a scholarship with "Talent Award" from the University of Hartford where he studied Artist Diploma and Master in Piano.

He has worked as an accompanying pianist at the International Musical Interpretation Course in Girona, Ruggiero Ricci's violin course, Magda Puyo's Theatrical Interpretation Course for Singers and Isabel Penagos' Spanish Music Course. He has also collaborated with the contemporary music groups "Bártok", "Sinfonietta", "Barcelona 216" and "Hartt Contemporary Players". He has performed solo and chamber recitals in Spain, Italy, France and the United States. He has been awarded in several composition competitions in Catalonia and his compositions have been premiered in Catalonia, England, the United States and Brazil. He has worked in numerous conservatories and music schools in Catalonia and currently works as a chamber music teacher and vocal repertorist at the Sabadell Conservatory and piano and improvisation teacher at the Barcelona Municipal Music Conservatory.

Antoaneta Radočaj-Jerković, PhD, conductor, singer, and university professor, holds three MA university degrees in choral conducting, singing, and music pedagogy and has received her doctorate with a dissertation in the field of choral pedagogy. She perfected her conducting in Germany, Hungary and in the USA. She is an associate professor at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek.

She has held numerous concerts in Croatia, Greece, Italy, Germany, Poland, the UK, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Sweden, France, Russia, the USA and Australia. With her choir, Brevis - Vocal Ensemble she performed at prestige concert halls such as: Carnegie Hall, Grand Philharmonic Hall in St. Peterburg and Sydney Opera House. She has won over thirty awards at national and international choir competitions: 1st prize Llangollen Musical Eisteddfod, Varna Choral Competition, Helsingborg Choral Competition, St. Peterburg Youth Choral World Championship, International Choir Competition Lege Artis, Grand Prix International choir festival Melodianum, gold medal World Choir Games, Australian International Music Festival, 2nd prize Pecs Chamber Choir Competition, silver medal Rimini International Choral Competition, 3rd prize Florilege Vocal de Tours etc.

She has recorded for radio and TV and released 14 CDs. To date, she has published two books and several scientific papers about choral singing. She is a member of international panels at choral music competitions and regularly holds lectures and workshops for conductors and singers.

Jonathan Rathbone started his musical career as a chorister at Coventry Cathedral. He was a choral scholar at Christ's College Cambridge, where he studied mathematics. He gained a second degree at the Royal Academy of Music where he studied singing and composition with John Gardner.

Jonathan joined the Swingle Singers in 1984 and was musical director of the group for over a decade. During that time he turned from composition to arranging - creating the majority of their arrangements, both a cappella and with orchestra. He left the group in 1998 to spend more of his time composing, arranging and orchestrating.

He presently conducts four choirs in north London and is also musical director at his local church, St Mary's Walthamstow. He teaches harmony and aural skills at Middlesex University and recently taught Choral Arranging at Cambridge University.

He continues to write, arrange and orchestrate for a wide range of ensembles, creating pieces for groups such as Voces 8, the choir of Kings College, Cambridge, the Kings Singers, the Hi-Lo Singers, the Edvard Grieg Kor (based in Bergen), Vocalocity (based in Israel). He has also written (and recorded with his wife, Helen) all the jingles for the popular podcast "Where there's a Will, there's a Wake" starring Kathy Burke.