Diego Matheuz debuts with the Valencian Community Orchestra at the Castelló Auditorium
20.01.2017
Diego Matheuz will conduct the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana this dissabte, June 21, in the first concert that the titular group of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía offered in 2017 at the Auditori de Castelló.
For his debut at the capdavant of the OCV, the Venezuelan maestro has triated a comprehensive program of 'Tragic Overture, opus 81' by Brahms, 'Danses de Galanta', by Kódaly, and 'Simfonia number 5', by Txaikovski.
It is about the OCV's second incursion to Castelló this season, after the concert 'Noves Veus', with Ramón Tebar, and the singers of the Center Plácido Domingo, on November 27. The cycle also included two upcoming concerts, which will mark the debut of Víctor Pablo Pérez and John Axelrod with the main line-up of Les Arts.
Diego Matheuz (Barquisimeto, 1984) is one of the most promising conductors to have emerged from the National System of Orchestras and Youth and Children's Orchestras of Venezuela, whose greatest exponent is Gustavo Dudamel.
Principal Conductor of La Fenice in Venice, from September 2011 to 2015, and Principal Invited Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony, this season he competes in both important engagements at the two opera houses in Berlin, 'Rigoletto' at the Deutsche Oper and 'Il barbiere di Siviglia', at the Staatsoper.
In the orchestral sphere, the new agenda includes works with the orchestras of the Reggio de Torí and La Fenice in Venice, his debut with the Orquestra d'Arts Cèniques Hyogo in Japan, the BBC Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Center National d'Arts of Canada, in addition to the ceremony of the ECHO Klassik Awards to Berlin.
From his beginnings, the maestro from Barquisimeto has developed a notable career in Italy, making his debut in 2008 with the Mozart Orchestra in Bologna, which soon after, he will become the invited principal conductor. In September 2009 Antonio Pappano will replace the captain of the Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecília, on tour in Milà, Torí and Lucerna, which has been followed by various concerts in Rome. The three Italian orchestras that have worked are the Orquestra Simfònica Nacional de la Ràdio de Torí, the titular group of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Filharmònica de La Scala de Milà.
Outside the transalpine country, his commitments have led orchestras to Germany, Austria, Canada, United States, France, Holland, Israel, the Txeca Republic, Regne Unit and Sweden. Notable among these are the philharmonics of Cologne, Stockholm, Hamburg, Israel, Los Angeles, Ràdio Francesa, Ràdio dels Països Baixos i República Txeca, the British Philharmonic and the Philarmonia of Zurich, together with the Royal Philharmonic. He has also worked with the symphonies of Basel, Birmingham, Houston, Malmö, NHK of Tokyo, and the radio stations of Berlin and Frankfurt, as well as the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Orquestra de la Suisse Romande and the main group of the Center National d'Arts d'Ottawa.
Diego Matheuz maintained a strong relationship with his native orchestras, and returned regularly to Caracas. In 2013 he will be appointed associate director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. This mateix estiu will participate in the El Sistema residency, at the Salzburg Festival, and will conduct the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.
