Institutional information

The purpose of the institution and its activities

The LICEU CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION is a non-profit cultural and educational institution, with social initiative and public service, continuing the activity initiated in 1837 with the Liceo Filarmónico Dramático Barcelonés de Montesión. Its purpose is to serve society through teaching, artistic expression and knowledge transfer, always with the firm conviction that music contributes to human, ethical and social progress. The mission of the Foundation, according to its statutes, is the promotion and development of musical education in all styles and educational levels.

The Foundation develops its activities in several buildings in the center of Barcelona.

The Historic Center, located at Les Rambles, 63, in the building it shares with the Gran Teatre del Liceu. Although they have become separate institutions, the theatre was created by the Conservatory in order to have the right place to foster its students’ talent. On the upper floor is the Teatrino, an emblematic hall with capacity for one hundred seats, where the activity of teachers such as Pau Casals, Engelbert Humperdinck or Higini Anglès has taken place, as well as students such as Francesc Viñas, Montserrat Caballé, Manuel Ausensi, Victoria de los Ángeles and other great musicians who received their training at the Center. Many other young people interested in music, who did not go on to have a professional career, also had the opportunity to perform or take their exams in this special space.

The Professional Center, located at Plaça Urquinaona, 11, has classrooms perfectly suited to the needs of high-quality professional-grade musical training and the Music School, in the fields of classical, jazz and modern music. It is equipped with a concert hall for 70 spectators, with beautiful modernist-style decoration, located in a privileged setting next to Plaça Catalunya.

The Higher Studies Center, at Nou de la Rambla, 88, is the ideal space for bachelor’s and master’s degree studies, the Foundation’s main office and the place from where it is managed. The classrooms and resources of the building are fully adapted to the demands of professional music training of the highest level with an international dimension.

It has the Conservatori Liceu Auditorium, a concert hall with 394 seats, considered unanimously one of the best auditoriums of its kind, very suitable for chamber music and also perfectly adapted to symphonic music, jazz, modern music, theatre and opera. A stable programme is carried out annually through the concert cycles: Liceu Jove, Liceu Jazz, Liceu Cambra, Liceu Familiar and Liceu Jam Sessions.

In this building, in addition to the Auditorium, there are other spaces of different sizes and resources, so that students’ and guest musicians’ performances can always be accommodated in the most appropriate space: the Orchestra Hall, with 100 seats, the Chamber Hall, for 30 listeners, Classroom 00, recently remodeled as a multi-purpose space, and the Cafè del Conservatori, where live jazz can often be heard and where the school’s jam sessions take place.

The Foundation fulfills its purpose through four commitments, which structure its activity: the institutional commitment, the educational commitment, the artistic commitment and the social commitment. These commitments are implemented through the activities that the institution develops in its own facilities, as well as through the many collaboration agreements that the Foundation has signed with public and private entities of an academic, cultural or social nature, both in Spain and around the world.

Governance of the Foundation

Board

Honorary President:
Her Majesty Queen Sofia

President: Sergi Ferrer-Salat Serra di Migni
Secretary: María Pilar Fernández Bozal

Members

• Patron-Director of the Damm Private Foundation:
  Ramón Agenjo Bosch
• President of the Orfeó Català – Palau de la Música Catalana Foundation:
  Joaquim Uriach i Torelló
• President of the Society of the Gran Teatre del Liceu:
  Manuel Busquet Arrufat
• Josep Maria Coronas Guinart

Registration of interest groups of Catalonia. Number 726.