Pep Moliner
Department of Classical and Contemporary Music
He studied at the Conservatori Municipal de Música de Barcelona under the guidance of Maestro Miquel Badia, where he pursued studies in trombone and fiscorn. Subsequently, he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Fiscorn from ESMUC and a Master's degree in Musicology, Music Education, and Performance of Early Music, promoted by ESMUC and UAB.
Currently, he is a member of the Cobla Sant Jordi - Ciutat de Barcelona, Za!, and Transmegacobla. He is also part of the experimental music duo Tête à Tête with Marc Egea, the puppet show 'Els contes del binomi' with the Binixiflat company, and his personal project 'Fistrònic,' where he explores the sound of the fiscorn with electronic bases, sound effects, and loops.
He has worked in a variety of groups where he performed in various musical styles and with a great diversity of artists, including: Txarango, La carrau, Lllibert Fortuny, Pascal Comelade, Enric Casasses, Roger Mas, Kepa Junkera, Els Catarres, Antoni Ros-Marbà, Josep Pons, Salvador Mas, Lluís Llach, Pau Riba, and many others. His work spans multiple musical styles, with one foot rooted in Tradition and the other in constant innovation.
He has more than 150 recorded CDs, with the majority being recordings with the Cobla Sant Jordi - Ciutat de Barcelona. These recordings include integral collections of cobla music by Eduard Toldrà, integral works for copla by Joan and Ricard Lamote de Grignon, monographic collections dedicated to Manuel Oltra, Fèlix Martínez and Comín, Ricard Viladesau, and more. He has also collaborated on fusion works, combining cobla with artists such as Lluís Vidal, Joan Albert Amargós, Roger Mas, Pascal Comelade, Kepa Junkera, Niño Josele, Carme Canela, and others. In addition, he has recorded CDs in the genres of Jazz, Traditional Music, Electronic Music, and Modern Music.
He has published articles on the history of the fiscorn bass and its development in Catalonia. He has undertaken numerous studies and produced chamber music for fiscorn bass, cobla instruments, and traditional music. He is currently working on a commission from the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya to create a comprehensive method for fiscorn bass.
Pep Moliner is a musician who plays fiscorn, trombone, and tuba, and he serves as a full-time fiscorn professor at ESMUC. He combines his teaching work at ESMUC with performing as a fiscorn player in the Cobla Sant Jordi.
He has worked with various musical groups, allowing him to develop his skills as a performer in different musical styles. His work in both pedagogy and musicology is focused on the fiscorn, including the development of new repertoires and formations involving the fiscorn.
He has also researched, and continues to do so, the history of the fiscorn as well as exploring new interpretative and technical elements of this instrument. It can be asserted that the fiscorn is the only truly Catalan wind instrument, despite its adopted origins.
Since 2002, he has been a professor at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, primarily teaching fiscorn bass. He also teaches chamber music for cobla instruments, traditional music ensembles, brass ensembles, and the theoretical course Repertori dels instruments de la Cobla'. He served as the Head of the Department of Traditional Music at ESMUC from 2006 to 2015.