Jorge Losana

Tuesday, 29 April 2025 - The EFFEA Stage: emerging artists at the core of festival making - Arts Festivals Summit 2025

Jorge Losana is a singer, conductor, cultural promoter, and entrepreneur. Born in Murcia, he moved to Barcelona in 2016 and founded the vocal ensemble Cantoría, specialising in Iberian Renaissance music. With Cantoría, he has performed concerts across numerous European and American countries and released the album Ensaladas, which received awards such as the "Diapason Découverte" and the “Preis der Schallplattenkritik”.

Jorge Losana is also the director of the ECOS Festival de Sierra Espuña, which brings together the best international young talent in early music every summer in the Region of Murcia. Additionally, he leads the Baroque Orchestra and the Historical Music Workshop at the University of Murcia.

He is frequently invited as a speaker, jury member, and professor at international forums such as Early Music America, the Brighton Live Young Artists Scheme, the International Young Artist’s Presentation in Antwerp, the Early Music Week of Estella, and the S-EEEmerging project. He also actively participates in national and international discussions on music, youth, and sustainable development goals. The ECOS Festival won the "R.E.M.A. Award" for Best Training Programme in its 2023 edition (Cork, Ireland). Since 2025, he has been a board member of the European Early Music Network (R.E.M.A.) and regularly collaborates with media outlets such as Melómano Digital and Total Baroque Magazine.

The vocal ensemble Cantoría was named “The Best of Classical Music of the Year” by the cultural magazine El País (Babelia, December 2024).