Biography
Born in Berga (Barcelona), Judit Subirana began her musical career playing the violin and viola. She was a member of several choirs, where she developed her interest in singing. She studied voice with Mariona Pallach and Marta García, and continued her studies at the Prins Claus Conservatoire in Groningen with Marcel Boone. She completed her bachelor’s degree with Hanneke de Wit as her voice teacher and her master’s degree at the Musikhochschule Basel with Marcel Boone and Rosa Domínguez. She has attended masterclasses with Margreet Honig, Salome Kammer, Barbara Bonney, Lisette Oropesa, and Marina Viotti, among others.
She has sung Verdi’s Requiem conducted by Edo de Waart at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and regularly performs with La Capella Reial de Catalunya under the direction of Jordi Savall.
She has performed various operatic roles, including Flora in La traviata with Opera op het Hogeland; Zerlina at the Basel Theatre with OperAvenir; Angelina in Rossini’s La Cenerentola at the Hochschule Basel; Leonora in Scarlatti’s Il trionfo dell’onore; and Fuchs in Janáček’s Das schlaue Füchslein. In 2022 she sang the role of Lauretta at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid with the Ensemble Los Elementos. In 2024 she performed the role of Clarín in Corselli’s La cautela en la amistad y el robo de las sabinas at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, also with Los Elementos.
In the concert repertoire, she has appeared as a soloist in works such as Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with a symphony orchestra in Chile, as well as Handel’s Messiah in Oviedo.
She is a member of Duo Pluja, a lied duo formed with pianist Pierre-Nicolas Colombat, with whom she has begun an active concert career on various stages and with whom she recently took part in a masterclass with Wolfram Rieger.
She has participated in several recordings with Ensemble Los Elementos, conducted by Alberto Miguélez Rouco, including Donde hay violencia, no hay culpa, Venus y Adonis, El diablo mudo, and La divina Filotea, all by Nebra. She has also recorded Die Walpurgisnacht with Jordi Savall and La Capella Reial de Catalunya.
