Jaume Darbra is a multidisciplinary and independent artist based between Murcia and Cologne.
As a freelance flutist, Jaume is active internationally in the field of contemporary music and visual arts. Engagements have taken him to all over Europe, America and Asia, performing in the most important venues, festivals and institutions such as, WienModern (Austria), November Music, STEIM, Gaudeamus Muziekweek (The Netherlands), Mixtur (Spain), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Snape Maltings (United Kingdom), Harvard University (USA), Festival Manifeste, IRCAM (France), Musikfest Berlin, ZKM (Germany), Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), Banff: Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada), Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival (South Korea), International Composition Institute of Thailand (Thailand), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina) and has collaborated with Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Marina Abramovic, Cirque du Soleil, Romain Bischoff, B.C. Manjunath, Robert Henke, Ryoji Ikeda to mention a few.
Besides from collaborating with renewed orchestras such as Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Deutsches Kammerorchester, Frankfurter Opern und Museumorchester, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Gürzenich Orchester Köln, specialized in ‘low’ instruments and he is dedicated to contemporary music. He has premiered works from composers of his generation and renewed composers such as Simon Steen Andersen, Rebecca Saunders, Unsuk Chin, Enno Poppe, Malin Bång and Alexander Schubert, and has worked with several contemporary music ensembles, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Klangforum Wien, Ictus Ensemble, Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, among others.