Pablo Heras-Casado conducts works by Beethoven, Montsalvatge and Sibelius at the Palau de les Arts
31.01.2013
– Pablo Heras-Casado (Granada, 1977) will conduct works by Beethoven, Montsalvatge and Sibelius next Sunday, February 3rd at the Auditori of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía.
The rising conductor makes his debut at the helm of the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana with Sortilegis , by Xavier Montsalvatge, a work with which the Valencian arts center pays homage to the Catalan composer on the recent centenary of his birth.
The program also includes Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major , with the concertmaster of the OCV, Sergei Ostrovsky, as soloist; and Sibelius' Second Symphony .
Pablo Heras-Casado, one of the most internationally renowned young Spanish conductors, has been principal conductor of the Orchestra of St. Luke in New York since 2011. At 35, he has worked with the Berlin, Los Angeles and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras, the Boston, Chicago and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra of St. Petersburg and the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich, among others.
Among his commitments for 2013 are the direction of the operas Rigoletto at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Les vêpres siciliennes at the Frankfurt Opera, as well as Il Postino , by Catán, with Plácido Domingo at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
