Galdric Santana

Department of Jazz, Flamenco, Popular and Traditional Catalan Music

gsantana@esmuc.cat

Cornamusa

Santana Galdric

Architect, musician, and musical instrument builder.

Education

Ph.D. in Architecture, specialising in Architectural Heritage, Civil Engineering, Urban Planning, and Rehabilitation of Existing Constructions, with a thesis titled: "Les campanes del registre exterior de carilló, del gran orgue dissenyat per Gaudí per al temple de la Sagrada Família". His thesis encompasses multidisciplinary research, including projective geometry, algebraic geometry, musical organology, physical and musical acoustics, architectural history, and musicology.

Research

Founder and director of Ministrers de la Ciutat de Barcelona, a historical traditional music ensemble.

He has conducted comprehensive research and documentation on the "tenebres de campanar" (Spanish medieval bell tower rattles) in Catalonia for the Inventory of Ethnological Heritage of Catalonia (IPEC). He has also restored and reproduced the historical "tenebres de campanar" (or “matraques”) from Santa Maria de Cervera (17th century) and Sant Pere Apòstol de Torredembarra (1900). Additionally, he has documented and demonstrated Gaudí's authorship in the design of the "Matraca" for the bell tower of the Colònia Güell church. He has worked on various graphic and multimedia projects related to the Archive and documentation of the Sagrada Família temple and participated in the restoration and conservation of the Bernabé bell of the Sagrada Família, and that of the historical bells used in Orfeó Català's rendition of "Parsifal." He is a member of the research group Arquitectura: Representació i Modelatge (AR&M) (2014 SGR 792 GRC), the interest group ICE GILDA – Group for Innovation and Teaching Logistics in Architecture (UPC), and the research group Bellesguard-Gaudí.

Career

He has participated in various recording projects across different artistic genres as a performer of the cornamuse, shawms, and dulcian. In the field of musical instrument construction, he has prototyped a bell with consonant overtones for harmonic use in a carillon and builds historical Catalan cornamuses (18th-19th centuries) and a tenor shawm. He has also designed, prototyped, and constructed a standardised flabiol for use in primary and middle music schools, with more than 8000 users, having over 60 schools using it and implementing the pedagogical project "El Flabiol a l’Escola".

Teaching

He has been a professor of cornamuse at ESMUC since 2004.

He also teaches Descriptive Geometry, Drawing, and Architectural Representation at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-Barcelona TECH).