Violoncello
Elisabet Iserte López, born in 1992 in Barcelona (Spain), studied at the Music Conservatory of Barcelona obtaining the highest marks. After two years learning with Arnau Tomàs, Elisabet studied her Bachelor degree in Bremen (Germany) at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen with Prof. Johannes Krebs. She recieved impulses from many cellists as Ivan Monighetti, David Grigorian and Tanja Tetzlaff.
Since 2016 she is established in Berlin working with several orchestras and ensembles. As a member of dogma chamber orchestra, she went on tours in Japan and Romania and in 2019 won the Opus Klassik prize (Germany) in the category “best symphonic recording of classical music until the 18th century” with a recording from 2018, which includes compositions by Mozart and Schubert. During the season 2021-2022 she played as Tutti cellist with Neubrandenburger Philharmonie.
Elisabet plays regularly in renowned concert halls such as Elbphilharmonie or Berliner Philharmonie. Her cello was made 2009 by Robert Brewer Young in France.
Chamber music is an important genre in her musical career. Since 2019 Elisabet is member of Duo Ilios together with the pianist Lili Bogdanova, and since 2022 plays with Duo Pariser Flair, which offers concerts in whole Germany. Additionally in 2016 Elisabet created Absit Duo with the also Catalan saxophonist Carla Obach. Their first album “Trencadís” was released in 2023 and includes new compositions inspired in the city of Barcelona written by Spanish composers especially for Absit Duo. The project is funded with the BB_C grant by Institut de Cultura de Barcelona.
She has participated in numerous recordings with artists such as Sven Helbig, Zeina Azouqah, Till Simon, Ava Bonam, Roland Kaiser and Voice of Violin, and with music producers Felix Binder and David Hason.
Elisabet was awarded a grant Neustart Kultur through Deutscher Musikrat twice. In 2021 the institution funded concerts in hospitals and nursing homes together with the Ensemble Atlántico, founded by Elisabet; and in 2022 the grant allowed her to pursue the project Poliglobooks, a series of fairy tales from different cultures translated into many languages and recorded as audiobooks, for which both text and music have been created by her.
Since her cultural motivations go beyond the cello playing, she has worked as music manager and artistic director of music festivals and has recorded many audiobooks. In 2022 Elisabet graduated with honours from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) with a Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences and her project Poliglobooks was given the Best Bachelor Project award in the category professionalizing Communication Sciences 2021-2022.
