Lluís Vidal was born in Barcelona in 1959 where he studied music at the Superior Municipal Conservatory of Music. He has been the founder of the Teatre Lliure Chamber Orchestra (1985), the jazz groups Catalònia (1977), Onix (1983), Ictus (1987) and his own trio, as well as the Tango band Araca (1995).

He has recorded programs for radio and television and has performed at the most important festivals in Spain, Portugal, France, England, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Bulgaria, Israel, USA, China and Argentina. Playing with big jazzmen such as Dave Douglas, Wynton Marsalis, John Abercrombie, Dave Liebman, and Kenny Wheeler among others. He has performed with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with the Big Band of the Belgian RTV with the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada with the Orquesta Nacional Clàssica de Andorra with the Beethoven Academie de Belgium with the Andrés Segovia Chamber Orchestra with the Orquesta Nacional de España with the Real Filharmonía de Galicia with the Valencia Orchestra and with the Orfeó Català and with the Jove Orquestra Nacional de Catalunya.

For eighteen years he has been part of the Teatre Lliure Chamber Orchestra, carrying out an intense activity as a pianist, arranger, composer and artistic and musical director. As a composer, he has been commissioned to supervise a great wide of musical projects as Iberiana (2019) Ciutat Flamenco Festival of the Taller de Músics, Particles (2018), the Barcelona Auditorium, Crònica d'un any (2018), the Granollers jazz festival, En Clau de Flor (2017), the Orquestra de Cambra de Granollers, Diàlegs (2015), the Jove Orquestra Nacional de Catalunya, Two Christmas Carols in the key of jazz (2012), Orfeó Català, From Chaos with Love (2011), the BCN216 group, Concert for Brass Quintet and Orchestra (2010), the Spanish Brass Luur Metalls group, The legend of Sant Jordi (2009), Cobla Sant Jordi, Iberia (2004), National Orchestra of Spain, Vermeer (2001), the Plaza Festival and Nueva York en un poeta (1997), Orquesta Ciudad de Granada.

He has written music for the cinema, theater, and works for big band, orchestra, soloists in a great array of formats, in addition to the material that he performs with his trio or on solo piano.

He has been a professor at the AMMJ, Taller de Músics, (of which he was musical director for three years), and is currently a professor of composition, big band, combo and piano within the department of jazz and modern music of the ESMUC (Escuela Superior of Music of Catalonia).

He has recorded more than twenty albums as a leader and many others as a collaborator. He has won several composition awards, including the first prize in the Monaco Jazz Themes Composition Competition and the first prize in the Latin Jazz Composition Competition organized by the SGAE. He has received the National Music Award of the Generalitat of Catalonia and that of the Association of Jazz Musicians and Modern Music of Catalonia for the best pianist and composer in several editions.

https://www.lluisvidal.net