Presentation
I am an experienced and highly qualified translator, and a writer with a background in performance. University studies focused on theatre and poetry and I was fortunate to have as tutors, among others, literary critic Christopher Ricks (dissertation on Geoffrey Hill) and the poet Geoffrey Hill (final year elective paper on European avant-garde literature). As a personal project, I made the first translation into English of Federico García Lorca’s ‘El Público’. In 2020, with many years’ translating behind me, I gained the Chartered Institute of Linguists’ Diploma in Translation. Catalan and Spanish are languages I use and translate on a daily basis; I am also fluent in French. Translations include several contemporary opera libretti and various poetry sequences, as well as specialist articles on music. For four consecutive years I have participated in the Programme for literary translators of the Institut Ramon Llull, Barcelona. This year, 2025, I was invited to their five day FaberLlull seminar to work on the poetry of Mireia Calafell. My translations of sonnets by Mercè Rodoreda appear in Shearsman Magazine (135 & 136) 2023, New England Review, Summer (Vol. 44, No.2) 2023, AGNI Magazine (AGNI 99) 2024, and Modern Poetry in Translation (November Issue, Focus on Catalan) 2024. In 2021, the award-winning Barcelona art gallery, A34, commissioned translations from me of poetry by Joan Brossa, Rafael Alberti, León Felipe and Joan Miró. As a creative writer, I am the originator and author of a number of opera libretti, with several operas produced/commissioned.
As a performer I am involved in voice over: 2025 sees the release of The Light of Aisha, an animated feature film, in which I voice a central character.
As a performer I am involved in voice over: 2025 sees the release of The Light of Aisha, an animated feature film, in which I voice a central character.
Librettist
Sky Disc opera-oratorio.
Idea and libretto; music Ramon Humet.
Oper Halle, Germany, 2013.
Tales of Liberation opera.
Idea and libretto; music Andy Pape.
Commissioned by Den Ny Opera, Esbjerg, Denmark.
Juana opera.
Idea and libretto; music Enric Palomar.
Oper Halle, Germany / Teatre Romea, Barcelona, 2005; Staatstheater Darmstadt, 2007.
See Gallery for photographs of Juana and Sky Disc
Idea and libretto; music Ramon Humet.
Oper Halle, Germany, 2013.
Tales of Liberation opera.
Idea and libretto; music Andy Pape.
Commissioned by Den Ny Opera, Esbjerg, Denmark.
Juana opera.
Idea and libretto; music Enric Palomar.
Oper Halle, Germany / Teatre Romea, Barcelona, 2005; Staatstheater Darmstadt, 2007.
See Gallery for photographs of Juana and Sky Disc
TRANSLATOR
BOOKS and CATALOGUES
Mime theatre GEST, Mime Theatre Gest
Guide to the Fundació Miró, Fundació Miró/Polígrafo
Mime theatre GEST, Mime Theatre Gest
Guide to the Fundació Miró, Fundació Miró/Polígrafo
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Figures of Doubleness, Comanegra
Time of Change, Arts Santa Monica/GenCat Barcelona Zerkowitz, Barcelona City Council 
THEATRE / OPERA
• Dreamtime Gonçalo Tavares OBNC Barcelona • Sis solos soles/Six solitary solos OBNC Barcelona 
• Diàlegs de Tirant i Carmesina Rosich OBNC • Cantos de Sirena Marc Rosich La Fura dels Baus • Till Death Us Do (final English singing version) Andy Pape • Vacants/Empties Lluïsa Cunillé, L'Obrador Internacional conference, Sala Beckett CD BOOKLETS
• L4DL4 Pablo Carrascosa Llopis Neu Records • Pendular Motion Octavi Rumbau Neu Records • Llum (text Vicenç Santamaria) Ramon Humet Ondine • Vocal Folksongs Robert Gerhard Seed Music
• Niwa Ramon Humet Neu Records
• Hideouts Manuel Rodríguez Valenzuela Neu Records • Images of Broken Light Josep Maria Guix Neu Records • Legacy Anna Alès & Alexander Fleischer Seed Music
• Temperaments Farrés & Hervada Seed Music
• Les Set Fulles de Faig Marigó/Mezquida Seed Music • Embrujo Enrique Cofiner • Besties Joan Díaz Seed Music • Images Josep Maria Guix Neu Records • Multiplicidad Luis Codera Siemens Foundation
• Offertorium Barcelona Clarinet Players Seed Music
• Homage to Martha Graham Ramon Humet Neu Records • Intertwined Paths Joel Bartlett Seed Music 
• Requiem Bernat Vivancos Neu Records
• Mi Canción (letras) Beatriz Aguiar Connecting Cultures • Taqasim Marcel Khalifé Connecting Cultures • Dui Droma Martin Lubenov Connecting Cultures • La Judería Yasmin Levy Connecting Cultures • Abacai Benjamin Taubkin Connecting Cultures CONCERT PROGRAMMES
• Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (Institut Ramon Llull) • National Music Auditorium (ANM), Madrid ART GALLERY EXHIBITIONS • Galeria A34, Barcelona • Exhibition SUMER, Fundació Miró, Barcelona ACADEMIC • PuppetPlays Conference Summary Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 AUDIOVISUAL
• You Will Be A Man subtitles, docu. film Isabel de Ocampo • Barcelona Maritime Museum Audio guide 
PUBLICITY
• World Padel Tour 2020 
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Contact me for translations: Spanish into English, or Catalan into English.
I am a Chartered Linguist (translation) and full member of the Institute of Linguists (CIOL).
I am a Chartered Linguist (translation) and full member of the Institute of Linguists (CIOL).
Qualifications Dip Trans, MCIL CL (CIOL) London; B.A. Hons., Eng Lit, University of Cambridge; CCK Spanish, University of Cambridge; CELTA (Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults).
Rates in line with European Union Translation rates.
Client satisfaction Rigorous and perfectionist in all my work, I guarantee client satisfaction.
Rates in line with European Union Translation rates.
Client satisfaction Rigorous and perfectionist in all my work, I guarantee client satisfaction.
