Guillermo García Calvo conducts works by Beethoven, Mozart and Schumann at the Palau de les Arts
15.02.2013
García Calvo, one of the most outstanding Spanish conductors of today, makes his debut leading the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana with this concert.
The program includes Beethoven's Leonore Overture III ; Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp, K 299 , with OCV musicians Álvaro Octavio and Cristina Montes as soloists; and Schumann's Second Symphony .
Musically trained in Vienna, Guillermo García Calvo was an assistant to Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, as well as to Christian Thielemann in Der Ring des Nibelungen at the 2007 Bayreuth Festival. He has been invited to conduct the Latvian National Orchestra, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of the Principality of Asturias and Galicia, among others.
He regularly works with the Deutsche Oper Berlin and since 2003 has maintained a close collaboration with the Vienna State Opera, where he has tackled more than fifty titles including operas such as L'elisir d'amore , Macbeth , La traviata and Die Zauberflöte , and ballets such as The Nutcracker and Swan Lake .
Among his most immediate commitments for 2013 are Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Vienna State Opera and Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles in concert version at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
