Joan Enric Lluna

Joan Enric Lluna is a multifaceted musician who combines his work as a clarinetist with conducting and teaching.
His commitment to chamber music has led him to perform with quartets such as the Alexander, Tokyo, Jerusalem, Brodsky, and Sine Nomine. Joan has premiered numerous chamber works by composers such as C. Cano, J. Torres, I. Zebeljan, P. Barker, D. Del Puerto, and H. Khoury.
Joan Enric Lluna founded Moonwinds and has directed the International Festival “Residències de Música de Cambra” in Godella, Valencia, since 2009.
Joan Enric Lluna combines his work as a clarinetist with conducting.
As a conductor and soloist-conductor, Lluna has led orchestras such as the Luzerne Festival Strings, Manchester Camerata, the OCV of the Palau de les Arts, the Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra, the Kensington Chamber Orchestra of London, the Valencia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic of Galicia, and the Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra. He recently conducted the 30th-anniversary concerts of the Cadaqués Orchestra to great public and critical acclaim. He has also conducted the winds of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and upcoming engagements will take him to conduct the Berliner Camerata, the OCV of the Palau de les Arts, and the ADDA Simfònica of Alicante, among other orchestras.
As a soloist, he has performed on the main European stages, under the direction of conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Gianandrea Noseda, Juanjo Mena, and Neville Marriner, and in chamber groups such as the Brodsky, Tokyo, and Alexander quartets, or soloists such as Lluís Claret, Tasmin Little, and Josep Colom. He has been the principal clarinet of the Orquesta de la CV, the resident ensemble of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, since he was chosen by Lorin Maazel to assume this responsibility in 2006. He is also the principal clarinet of the Cadaqués Orchestra, of which he is a co-founder. He was the principal clarinet of the Bournemouth Sinfonietta between 1996 and 1999, and as a guest principal clarinet, he has performed with formations including the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.Lluna is the promoter and director of the Moonwinds chamber group, composed of wind instruments and bringing together top-level performers. In addition, since 2009, he has directed the International Festival «Residencias de Música de Cámara» in Godella, Valencia.Lluna has performed a large part of the repertoire for solo clarinet and premiered concerts by composers such as Sir John Tavener, J. Guinjoan, César Cano, Jesús Torres, Paul Barker, and Sánchez Verdú. Likewise, throughout his career, he has premiered numerous chamber works by composers such as J. Torres, I. Zebeljan, P. Barker, D. Del Puerto, and H. Khoury. He has recently premiered concerts written to be performed as conductor-soloist by Isidora Zebeljan and Jesús Torres. He has recently released the CD dedicated to Salvador Bacarisse by Moonwinds, the recording of “jazz impact”, dedicated to Leonard Bernstein and Benny Goodman, the first recording of chamber works by Benet Casablancas for Naxos with the Moonwinds Ensemble, and the latest recorded with IBS monographic on Weber recorded with the Berliner Camerata.
Among his discography, his two recordings of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto K622 stand out, with conductors Sir Neville Marriner (Tritó) and Anthony Pay (Cala Records). He has also recorded with the Brodsky, Tokyo, and Alexander quartets, and has five albums dedicated to Spanish music, published by Harmonía Mundi and Clarinet Classics. The last of these is dedicated to musicians exiled in the Spanish Civil War (Tritó, 2015). With Moonwinds he has recorded the Gran Partita, the Serenades for Winds by Mozart, Una cosa Rara, and an album dedicated to unpublished divertimentos by Martín y Soler.