Leadership
The Steward
Beyond composition and performance, Òscar Colomina i Bosch is deeply engaged in the stewardship of the musical ecosystem. Since 2020 he has served as Dean of the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, alongside major pedagogical and leadership roles as Professor and Director of Music at the Yehudi Menuhin School and Professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Across these contexts, his work is guided by a clear commitment to foster an ecosystem that allows all citizens, to whatever degree, a direct, authentic, rich, and deeply personal experience of creation.
“As a teacher and academic leader, I feel the responsibility to contribute so that future generations […] grow in that same spirit of freedom, curiosity, and truth that I myself was fortunate to receive.”
— Scherzo Magazine
Òscar’s stewardship understands composing, performing, teaching, research, leadership, social impact, and advocacy as an interconnected ecology. This reflects an ethics of presence and responsibility: tending to the conditions in which music, musicians, and institutions can flourish, and insisting that music and education remain grounded in lived experience, awareness, and shared humanity. For him, everything exists in an organic continuum, in which teaching, composing, performing, and conducting are part of the same impulse that keeps his musical ear, curiosity, and artistic intuition in permanent motion.
“I conceive of teaching as a Socratic dialogue, a space where transformation is shared. Listening to the voice of the other—their imagination, their doubts, their intuitions—becomes a profound tool of self-knowledge and self-discovery, a stimulus that forces me to reconsider my own certainties and that always returns me to a place of beginning, of exploration. That constant dialogue, impregnated with energy, vulnerability, and search, is one of the most fertile engines of my personal development and of my creative process.”
— Doce Notas
