Francisco Poyato

Department of Classical and Contemporary Music

fpoyato@esmuc.cat

Seminari de música vocal
Lied

Poyato Francisco

Education

Born in 1965 in Geneva, Switzerland, he pursued higher studies in piano, composition, and orchestral conducting in Barcelona and Badalona with professors such as Ludovica Mosca, Antoni Besses, Josep Pons, Benet Casablancas, Josep Soler, and Salvador Mas, among others. He specialised in Lied with Hartmut Höll and Mitsuko Shirai at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he also studied fortepiano and historical performance with Anthony Spiri. He furthered his piano training with Frederic Gevers, Maria Curcio, and Dimitri Bashkirov, and his Lied studies with Edith Mathis, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Thomas Hampson, Robert Holl; and his chamber music training with Menahem Pressler.

Awards

He has won several awards, both as a soloist and in the Lied field.

Career

He serves on the juries of national and international competitions in piano, singing, chamber music, and Lied in both Spain and Germany.

He was a member of the Mozarteum Trio. Currently, he is the pianist of the Elaios Ensemble, a group dedicated to chamber vocal music, and the Rilke Trio, consisting of a clarinet, viola, and piano.

He has given concerts in Catalonia -Auditori de Barcelona, Schubertiades of Barcelona and Vilabertran, Auditori Pau Casals in El Vendrell, Festival de Torroella de Montgrí-, Spain -Maestranza in Sevilla, Festival Manuel de Falla in Granada-, Austria -Mozarteum in Salzburg, Linz-, Germany -Bavaria, Münster, Stuttgart-, Croatia - Lisinzski Concert Hall in Zagreb-, France, and Portugal – the Gulbelkian in Lisboa-.

He has recorded for Catalunya Ràdio, Radio 2, Canal 33, the German WDR, and Radio Zagreb.

Teaching

 

From 1995 to 2001, he served as a repertoire teacher in the Department of Voice at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and was also invited as a faculty member at the Sommerakademie (summer academy) of this prestigious institution.


Since the creation of the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya in 2001, he has been teaching Lied for vocal and piano duets. He has also conducted courses in Lied, Catalan song, and "canción" at the Sala Paper de Música in Capellades, at the courses of the Schubertiada in Vilabertran, and at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, respectively.