Roc Fargas, originally from Barcelona, studied Music at Cambridge University where he started conducting his own Anstieg Symphony Orchestra. He studied a Master in Historical Performance and Orchestral Conducting learning with Sian Edwards at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Roc is currently a Konzertexamen Orchestral Conducting student at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar learning with Nicolás Pasquet, Ekhart Wycik and Jürgen Puschbeck.
Since April 2023, Roc is a scholarship holder of the Forum Dirigieren des Deutschen Musikrates in Germany. Roc has conducted orchestras such as the Jena Philharmonic, Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau, Staatskapelle Weimar, Philharmonie Südwestfalen, Erzgebirgische Philharmonie, Thüringen Philharmonic, Hradec Králové Philharmonic, Cardiff Sinfonietta, Ruse Philharmonic, Sofia Philharmonic and the Orquestra Vigo 430. Roc has assisted conductors Juanjo Mena, Sir Mark Elder, Gianandrea Noseda, Simon Gaudenz, Nicolás Pasquet, Jac van Steen, Trevor Pinnock, Edward Gardner and Laurence Cummings.
Roc was awarded the prestigious Banco Sabadell and British Spanish Society scholarship for Spanish students in the UK, as well as the Enlightenment Full Scholarship by the Royal Academy of Music. In collaboration with the Cervantes Institute, Roc premiered the restored danced pantomime El Corregidor y la Molinera by Manuel de Falla at St John’s Smith Square, London, and conducted the Spanish zarzuela El Trust de los Tenorios by José Serrano at the Royal Opera House of Mumbai, India. In 2021 Roc premiered the contemporary-folk opera María Soliña by Nacho Mañá with the Orquestra Vigo 430 in Spain. Most recently, Roc premiered six compositions in New York, conducting a contemporary music joined project with the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar and the Manhattan School of Music.
As former singer of the London Symphony Chorus, Baroque viola player, and currently a member of the Kammerchor Weimar, Roc has performed with artists such as Sir Simon Rattle, François-Xavier Roth, Ton Koopman, John Butt, Mark Albrecht, Rachel Podger, Jane Glover, Thomas Søndergård and Philippe Herreweghe in all the major venues in the UK, as well as at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Paris Philharmonie, and the Markgräfliches Opernhaus Bayreuth in Germany.