marta infante, mezzosoprano 

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In her native Lleida she studied piano, viola and singing, and then went on to study higher singing studies at the Academy of Arts at the University of Ostrava. 

He has sung with important orchestras such as the Barcelona and Catalan National Symphony Orchestras, the Community of Madrid, the Spanish National Orchestra, the Malaga Philharmonic, the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, with conductors such as Jordi Casas, J. Ramón Encinar, L. Botstein, Kynan Jonhs, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, Maximino Zumalave, Edmon Colomer, Kees Bakels, Robert Howarth, Carlos Kalmar, Victor Pablo Pérez.

In the field of early music he has sung at festivals such as the Venice Biennale, the Bijloke, the Sablé Baroque Festival, the Janackuv May, the Oslo International Church Music Festival, the Fribourg International Festival of Sacred Music, the Prague Spring, the Torroella de Montgrí Festival, the Barcelona Early Music Festival, the Palau de la Música Catalana, the Palau de Valencia, Via Stellae, Musika-Música de Bilbao, FEMAS and others in Asia and America.He has collaborated with the most important historicist groups in our country, as well as Collegium 1704, Anthonello, Dresden Barockorchestra, Barrocade Israel Ensemble, Ars Longa and with the conductors Vaclav Luks, Enrico Onoffri, Giovanni Antonini, F.M. Sardelli, Paul Goodwin, Ottavio Dantone, Richard Egarr and Rinaldo Alesandrini.He has recorded for Mezzo, Cesky Rozhlas, RTVE, Catalunya Música and the labels Alpha, Glossa, Enchiriadis, Anima e Corpo, Verso, EMEC and CDM.

https://www.artistsbcn.com/marta-infante.html

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pere saragossa, soloist oboe ​

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He studied oboe at the Ateneu Musical in his native La Vilajo Joiosa, at the onservatories of Alicante and Valencia, and baroque oboe with Alfredo Bernardini at the ESMUC in Barcelona. He worked for 9 years in the Orquestra Simfónica del Vallès, and in 2005 he created Vespres d'Arnadí with the harpsichordist Dani Espasa, a baroque group with which he has performed in prestigious festivals in Europe. He has collaborated with prestigious baroque orchestras such as the Accademia Bizantina, Zefiro Ensemble, Balthasar Newmann Ensemble, Europa Galante, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Matheus, Stockholm Barokorkester, Le Concert des Nations and Austrian Baroque Company. Since 2016 he has been a professor of historical oboes at the Conservatori Superior de Música de Castelló.

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farran sylvan james, soloist violin

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Farran Sylvan James studied violin in his native Vancouver and at State University and the Juilliard School in New York. At the age of 16 he was playing with the ensembles Les Violons du Roy (Quebec) and the Montreal Chamber Orchestra. In 1998 he moved to Europe where he has worked as concertmaster of baroque orchestras such as Al Ayre Español, Bach Consort Wien, Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla and Vespres d'Arnadí, with whom he has recorded for Harmonia Mundi, Ambroisie, Naive, Challenge, Sony and Arsis.

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dani espasa, harpsichord and direction

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Born in La Canonja (Tarragona), Dani Espasa is an eclectic musician with a multitude of interests and very diverse artistic activity: pianist, harpsichordist, accordionist, conductor, composer, arranger, producer, teacher... His career has taken surprising paths, and it is just as likely to find him in theatrical shows, such as leading the baroque orchestra Vísperas de Arnadí or collaborating with Maria del Mar Bonet and Lídia Pujol. After studying clave with Béatrice Martin at ESMUC, he began an intense activity with prestigious baroque, renaissance and medieval music groups performing in prestigious auditoriums in Europe, America and Asia. He is currently a professor at ESMUC and a member of the Historical Interpretation Program at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid, where he teaches harpsichord and basso continuo.

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vespres d'arnadí

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Baroque orchestra created in 2005 by Dani Espasa and Pere Saragossa to offer versions full of emotion, freshness and spontaneity, using historical instruments and criteria. Its name recalls the concerts that in the 18th century were usually offered in the evenings as a dessert at the distinguished dinners of the nobles and bourgeoisie. Pumpkin, sugar and almonds are the ingredients of arnadí, one of the oldest desserts in the Valencian Country.

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The ensemble has performed in important venues and festivals in Europe, such as Peralada, Barcelona, London, Halle, Prague, Madeira, Seville, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Lugo and Madrid, among others.

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With the Musièpoca label they have recorded the albums Pièces de Simphonie by Charles Desmazures, Mass in D Major by Josep Mir y Llussà and Anna Maria Strada by Händel. At the end of 2018 they presented their fourth album on the Aparté label entitled L'Alessandro amante featuring Xavier Sabata, a countertenor with whom they have also recorded their latest album, entitled Invisibili and released in 2024 on the Musièpoca label.

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In addition to the aforementioned singers, the orchestra collaborates with prestigious soloists such as, to name but a few, the sopranos Núria Rial, Serena Sáenz, Ana Quintans, Anna Devin, Sunhae Im, Giulia Semenzato and Marie Lys; the altos Hilary Summers and Sonia Prina; mezzo-sopranos Vivica Genaux and Mary Ellen Nesi; tenors Emiliano González Toro, Mark Milhofer, Thomas Walker and Juan Sancho; and basses Nicolas Brooymans, Luigi di Donato, José Antonio López and Josep-Ramon Olivé.

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Vespres d'Arnadí receives grants from the Institut Ramon Llull, the Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya and INAEM.