Javier Camarena and Leo Nucci, new stars of the Palau de les Arts season. Álvaro Albiach conducts the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana in Castelló.
10.10.2014
The rising Valencian conductor offers works by Mozart and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy in his debut with the resident orchestra of the Palau de les Arts
Conductors from the Valencian Community such as Jordi Bernàcer, Gustavo Gimeno and Juan Luis Martínez will work with the OCV this season
Valencia. Álvaro Albiach will make his debut with the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana on October 17 at the Auditori de Castelló. The Valencian maestro (Llíria, 1968) thus joins the list of local conductors who will work with the resident orchestra of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía throughout this season.
For his performance, Álvaro Albiach offers a program featuring the overture to Don Giovanni and Symphony No. 39 by Mozart, and the Scottish Symphony by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
The rising maestro, artistic director and principal conductor of the Extremadura Orchestra, takes the helm of the OCV after his resounding success this past summer at the Mérida Classical Theatre Festival with Strauss's Salome .
Considered one of the most promising Valencian conductors, he has received invitations from international ensembles such as the Wiener Kammerorchester, NDR Radio Philharmonie de Hannover, Staatskapelle Halle, Trondheim Symphony, Orchestre d'Auvergne, Flemish Radio Orchestra, Würtenbergische Philharmonie, Orchestre National de Lyon and the Orchestre Sinfónica Nacional de Chile.
In the operatic field, the young maestro also developed an intense career with works for important theaters such as the Liceu in Barcelona and the Real in Madrid, as well as the main summer festivals in our country, in addition to the prestigious Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro (Italy).
Valencian batons
Emerging conductors from the Valencian Community such as Álvaro Albiach, Jordi Bernàcer, Gustavo Gimeno and Juan Luis Martínez will share the musical direction of the OCV with established conductors on the international scene such as Roberto Abbado, Plácido Domingo and Nicola Luisotti in the 2014-2015 Season of the Palau de les Arts.
OCV professors Ricardo Casero and Joan Enric Lluna were the first Valencian musicians to take the podium for the two free concerts of the Open Day hosted by the arts center on October 5th.
Gustavo Gimeno, who already performed with the OCV this year at the Auditori de Castelló's 10th Anniversary concert, will conduct the Palau de les Arts' resident orchestra in a concert featuring Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 4 and 6 in November. Subsequently, in March 2015, he will assume the musical direction of the new production of Bellini's Norma in the Main Hall.
Moreno Torroba's zarzuela Luisa Fernanda will star Plácido Domingo, with Jordi Bernàcer, from Alcoy, as musical director. Bernàcer was the first Valencian to take the podium in the Main Hall with Massenet's Manon in 2010. Furthermore, the Alcoy-born conductor will lead the final performance of Puccini's Manon Lescaut on December 27.
Finally, Juan Luis Martínez will conduct the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana for the second time, along with the singers from the Centre de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo, at the end of May 2015.
The Valencian maestro, who debuted at the Palau de les Arts with Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in 2012, presents Domenico Scarlatti's Narcissus , which is presented in Davide Livermore's production, the result of a collaboration between the Valencian arts center and the Innsbruck Early Music Festival, and which garnered resounding success with audiences and critics last August in Austria.
