Jordi Camell (Llorenç del Penedès, 1959) is a seasoned pianist trained in Tarragona, Barcelona, Paris, and London. He studied with Carme Flexas, Miquel Farré, and Maria Curcio. Gifted with a strong ability to communicate and artistic clarity, he has consistently been praised by critics for his transparent and brilliant sound, enriched by a wide range of colors. In 1984, he earned the Diplôme Supérieur d’Exécution as premier nommé from the École Normale de Musique in Paris.

He has performed with ensembles such as Barcelona 216, Solistes d’Ibercàmera, and the Chamber Orchestra of the Teatre Lliure. In 1992, he appeared in Barcelona’s Ibercàmera concert season, and in 2014, he performed Brahms’ F minor Sonata at the Palau de la Música Catalana. As a soloist, he has played with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC), Vallès Symphony Orchestra, Barcelona Chamber Philharmonia, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Cobla Sant Jordi Ciutat de Barcelona, among others, performing works by Schumann, Mozart, Shostakovich, Poulenc, Gershwin, Albéniz, Brahms, and Grieg. He has been conducted by Bernhard Güeller, Salvador Brotons, Ernest Martínez-Izquierdo, and Josep Pons, among others.

An artist open to all styles, he has worked closely with Vicky Peña (a Kurt Weill monographic tour in Spain), with Cesc Gelabert (Preludis show), accompanying him live with works by Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Mompou, and Carles Santos across Spain, Europe, and the United States, and with Mario Gas (Miguel Hernández recital).

He has released around fifteen albums, including the Complete Piano Works of Pau Casals (Columna Música, 2012), Chopin Variations with works by Mompou, Balada, Brotons, Amargós (Columna Música, 2013), Before and After Iberiaby Isaac Albéniz (Columna Música, 2009), the Complete Piano Works of R. Gerhard and selected Goyescas by Granados (Ed. Moraleda, 1994), a duo album with Josep Fuster (Anacrusi, 1998), works by Ricard Viñes, Francis Poulenc, and Pictures at an Exhibition by M. Mussorgsky (Discmedi, 1999). In 2023, he released his first solo album of original piano compositions, Where the City Ends (Columna Música), which was very well received by the critics.

Jordi Camell is a piano and chamber music professor at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC). He is often invited to serve on competition juries. 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 (Moscow), West Virginia University (USA), University of Kentucky School of Music (USA), and the Academy of Music in Krakow.

Jordi Camell has never set aside his interest in thought and literature. He is the author of an essay on silence: Steps in Silence. Silence in Claude Debussy’s Préludes (Ed. Dinsic, forthcoming in September 2024), and is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Barcelona.