The Ciudad de Igualada Awards will take place at the Teatre Municipal Ateneu on Sunday, 22 November 2026, at 11:30 am. This year, Marta Vives and Joan Paradell have been named Honorary Award recipients.
The ceremony will feature a performance by the violin duo Encambra’t, comprising Pol Fortuny and Aina Filella, who will play duets by Bériot and Glière. The event will also see the premiere of "El Zanguango," a Venezuelan waltz composed by Publio Delgado Fernández, which won the Paquita Madriguera Musical Composition Award. The performance will include a quartet featuring Guim Balasch (soprano saxophone), Joan Carles Martín (alto saxophone), Iazmin Ciprian (tenor saxophone), and Francesc Gregori (baritone saxophone).
Xavier Dàvila and Montse Sanou from Ràdio Igualada will host the ceremony, during which the winners of several awards will be announced, including the Art Digital Jaume Graells, Procopi Llucià Photography, Joan Llacuna Poetry, Paquita Madriguera Musical Composition, Gaspar Camps Design, Dr. Joan Mercader Research, and Mossèn Josep Còdol Social and Civic Commitment Awards.
Honorary awards
This year’s Honorary Awards recognise the contributions of two prominent figures in Igualada’s cultural and social landscape: organist Joan Paradell Solé, born in 1956, who has had an esteemed international career, including performances at the Vatican; and Marta Vives y Sabaté, born in 1960, who dedicated her professional life to preserving and promoting documentary heritage as head of the Archivo Comarcal de Anoia from 1986 until her retirement in 2025.
Posthumous tributes
The city will also pay tribute to the memory of six notable Igualadins who have made significant contributions across various fields:
- Writer, journalist, and rhapsodist Jaume Ferrer Pinyol (1934-2026), a passionate promoter of local culture;
- Businessman Josep Llansana i Marcè (1949–2025), an avid paleontology enthusiast who donated over 1,500 fossils from Anoia;
- Educator Andreu Trilla i Llobera (1940–2026), provincial of the Escola Pia and a member of the Igualada community since 2008;
- Teacher and social activist Elvira Talló Morera (1956–2026), linked to the Adult School and president of the Aula Universitaria de la Gente Mayor de Anoia;
- Journalist Joan Armengol Costa (1934–2026), a media pioneer since his start at Ràdio Igualada in 1950, who interviewed notable figures such as Pau Casals, Josep Pla, and Salvador Dalí;
- Historian and archaeologist Jordi Enrich i Hoja (1948–2026), director of the Museu de la Piel de Igualada from 1987 to 2008 and researcher of ancient and medieval history.
Participation in the awards
This year, the awards received a total of 1,447 submissions across seven categories. Photography accounted for 89.1% of the entries, while poetry attracted the most authors among the categories with available authorship data.
