His main teachers have been Carme Flexas, Miquel Farré, and Maria Curcio. As an artist he is gifted with a remarkable ability to communicate and exhibit clarity in artistic expression. Specialised critics have consistently recognized him for his transparent and brilliant sound with a diverse range of colours.
His constant eagerness to explore new repertoires has led him to participate in concerts across Europe with contemporary music ensembles such as Barcelona 216, Solistes d'Ibercàmara, and the Orquestra de Cambra del Teatre Lliure. In 1992, he performed as part of the Ibercamera season in Barcelona, presenting a recital featuring works by Haydn, Debussy, Brahms, and Prokofiev, receiving unanimous acclaim from the critics. In 2014, he interpreted Brahms' powerful Sonata in F Minor for piano in a recital at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona. He has also appeared as a soloist with the OBC, the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès, the Filharmonia de Cambra de Barcelona, the Empordà-Languedoc-Roussillon Symphony Orchestra, the City of Granada Orchestra, the Cobla Sant Jordi Ciutat de Barcelona, among others, performing piano and orchestra concertos by C. Schumann, Mozart, Shostakovich, Poulenc, Gershwin, Albéniz, Brahms, Grieg, and more. He has been conducted by figures such as Bernhard Güeller, Salvador Brotons, Ernest Martínez-Izquierdo, and Josep Pons.
A musician keen and open to all styles, he has collaborated closely with Vicky Peña (monographic dedicated to Kurt Weill) on a tour throughout Spain with over forty performances. He has also collaborated with Cesc Gelabert (in the show Preludis), providing live piano accompaniment to works by Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Mompou, and Carles Santos during a three-year tour across Spain, Europe, and the United States. Additionally, he worked with Mario Gas (recital Miguel Hernández), among others. He has also presented his first show conceived and performed by himself, X-Ray, Radiografia d’un paisatge interior, featuring works by Bach, Poulenc, Shostakovich, Mompou, Stravinsky, and Camell, accompanied by a video created for the occasion by Mònica Sans. Recently, he has performed with soprano Ofèlia Sala, offering a Schumann/Granados programme that has been warmly received by both the public and critics.
He has released several recordings, including the complete piano works of Pau Casals (Ed. Columna Música, 2012), "Chopin Variations" commissioned by the Consulate of Poland in Barcelona (a CD featuring works by Catalan composers Mompou, Balada, Brotons, Amargós, and Camell, who have written piano pieces based on themes by Chopin, Columna Música, 2013), "Antes y después de Iberia" by Isaac Albéniz (Ed. Columna Música, 2009), the complete piano works of Robert Gerhard, and various Goyescas by E. Granados (Ed. Moraleda, 1994), clarinet and piano duets with Josep Fuster (Anacrusi, 1998), works by Ricard Viñes, Francis Poulenc, and Modest Mussorgski's "Pictures at an Exhibition" (Ed. Discmedi, 1999), as well as "Binomis" with the Cobla Sant Jordi (Ed. Columna Música, 2008)…
He has received awards in various competitions, and in 1984, he obtained the Diplôme Supérieur d’Exécution as a premier nommé at the École Normale de Musique de Paris.
In parallel with his intense musical activity, Jordi Camell is frequently invited to be part of the jury in piano competitions. In recent years, he has given concerts and masterclasses at the Central Conservatory of Music and Piano Academy at Gulangyu in Xiamen (China), the Frederic Chopin University of Music in Warsaw (Poland), the Faculty of Arts in Nis (Serbia), the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow, the West Virginia University (West Virginia, USA), the University of Kentucky School of Music (USA), and the Academy of Music in Krakow. Currently, he is a piano and chamber music professor at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC).