Ferran Planas Pla is the artistic manager of ensemble eeek! He is a musicologist and saxophonist. He studied saxophone at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu and musicology at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya and at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. In 2022 he graduated in Musicology with a specialization in Music and Gender and Social Sciences. As a musicologist, he has published in various indexed journals and participated in several symposia and conferences. His interests range from gender studies in music, music sociology and the relationship between music and technology to contemporary music theater as well as intertextuality and intermediality in music. Thanks to his above-average achievements, he has received various scholarships such as the Segimon Serrallonga Scholarship and the Deutschlandstipendium from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
He has led several artistic projects with Clara Giner Franco and Duet 2.26 such as “Hor che’l ciel e la terra e’l vento tace” and “I love you I hate you”. His projects are always based on a central philosophical idea and invite the audience to reflect on this idea through the stage action.
He has worked at Gare du Nord Basel and at the festival Culturescapes in the communication and production departments.