Francisco Coll

Composer and conductor Francisco Coll (Valencia, 1985) studied in Spain before moving to London, where he worked privately with Thomas Adès, his only student to date, and with Richard Baker at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 2019, he became the first composer to receive an International Classical Music Award (ICMA). He is currently an artistic collaborator with the Principality of Asturias Symphony Orchestra, a position he held for three seasons, allowing him to conduct a vast repertoire encompassing composers such as Berio, Mussorgsky, Stravinsky, and Falla, as well as his own musical creations. Coll has recently premiered works with internationally renowned ensembles, including the Basel Chamber Orchestra and the Radio France and Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestras. He also conducted the Finnish premiere of his orchestral work, Hímnica , at the Fiskars Summer Festival. This season he makes his debut as conductor of the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana and the Sinfónica de Castilla y León. A leading composer of our time, his scores are published by the prestigious Faber Music.

Coll was composer-in-residence with the Valencia Orchestra (2018–2020), which he conducted for the world premiere of Lilith , and with Camerata Bern (2018–2019), culminating in the BBC Music Magazine Award in 2022, specifically for the recording of the double concerto Les Plaisirs Illuminés (Alpha Classics). He regularly collaborates with artists such as Sol Gabetta and Patricia Kopatchinskaja. His music has been performed by orchestras including the Los Angeles and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras, the Bamberg, London, and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, among others.