She wields the baton with equal parts energy and delicacy. With passion and elegance. She always smiles at the musicians. Or perhaps she smiles at the music. When Noemí Pasquina (Cardona, 1987) began her career as a cellist, she never dared to imagine that she would become a conductor. "There were no role models. I had never seen a woman conducting an orchestra," she recalls. But years later, she traded the cello for the baton. This native of Cardona is one of the few female conductors in Catalonia and is fighting to make her mark in a world still dominated by men. Pasquina, who trained in Barcelona, ​​Manresa, Madrid, and The Hague, has so far conducted orchestras in Spain, France, and Romania.