European programme designed to support talented youths in the field of song poetry and chamber music. The programme covers teaching and concert activities as a platform to support its young participants and serves as a tool for job insertion in a complex landscape of stiff competition and closed environments that are difficult to access. Lied the Future also enhances the début performances of young musicians through the Schubertiada series of concerts, making the most of the festival’s outreach potential to help them enter the national and international circuit. The Schubertiada Academy is where musical education meets live performance at the concerts promoted by the Associació Franz Schubert association, as well as being a core facet of the festival’s personality.
“The programme Lied the Future offers an opportunity for young people who are just starting out in the world of Lied to take to the stage and sing. This is often their first opportunity to experience professional Lied or to do so in a setting so devoted to Lied. That is why I am so happy to be here, it’s overwhelming. I am very grateful to have been given this opportunity. The work achieved through initiatives such as Lied the Future plays a huge role in helping people find their way along this undeniably difficult path and we hope that it will remain in place for many years and that it will be able to help many more young people like ourselves to take this first step.” Elionor Martínez, soprano and recipient of the bursary for Lied the Future 2023
The projfessional trajectory of Elionor Martínez is a clear example of the importance of supporting talent throughout people’s careers so that they are able to grow and flourish. Her participation as a bursary recipient in the Lied the Future programme in 2023 was her first professional contact with the world of Lied and since then her career has skyrocketed and she has received numerous awards. Among other notable achievements, she was the headliner of the opening concert of the Schubertiada 2025 alongside Ferran Alberich, the bursary recipient in 2021, with a performance that won them the ex-aequo prize for best recital or concert singer at the Premios de la Crítica de Amics del Liceu awards ceremony.