Joan Grimalt

Joan Grimalt
Orchestra conductor (Vienna University), linguist (Barcelona University), and PhD in musicology (UAB) with a thesis on Gustav Mahler. After a decade dedicated primarily to opera conducting in Central Europe, Joan returned to Catalonia, where he combines active musicianship with teaching and research at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya. He was notably associated with the Vienna Volksoper from 1995 to 1997. As a pianist, his main focus has been German art song.
Grimalt’s principal research area is Musical Hermeneutics, with particular emphasis on intersections with language and literature, such as rhetoric, prosody, and dramaturgy. In recent years, he has also contributed to research projects in performance studies, bringing together his experiences as performer and teacher to develop a hermeneutic, performance-oriented approach to analysis.