José Ramón Encinar
CONDUCTORBIO
From the 2000/2001 season until August 2013 has been the Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Madrid Community Orchestra and Chorus (Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid). He held the post of Principal Conductor of the Portuguese National Symphony Orchestra during the 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 seasons, and has likewise been the Principal Conductor of the Proyecto Gerhard and Proyecto Guerrero Ensembles.
He spent the 1982-83 and 1983-84 seasons as the Principal Conductor of the Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1976 to 1983, he acted as Composition Assistant to Franco Donatoni in the master classes held at the Accademia Chigiana in Sienna (Italy). Starting as far back as 1973, he conducted the KOAN Ensemble for more than twenty years.
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Commonly seen with all of Spain’s orchestras, José Ramón Encinar has also appeared at a multitude of concert venues across Europe and Latin America at the helm of a great number of formations, including Italy’s RAINational Symphony Orchestra, the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra, the Arturo Toscanini Orchestra in Parma, the Verdi Orchestra in Milan, the London Symphony Orchestra, the English Bach Festival Orchestra, the Basle Symphony Orchestra, the Karlsruhe State Theatre Symphony Orchestra, the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra, the Mexican National Symphony Orchestra, the Venezuelan National Orchestra and Puerto Rico’s Casals Festival Orchestra, etc.
He has made over a score of recordings for various international labels, such as Naxos, Stradivarius, Glossa, Col Legno, Verso, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon and the like.
His awards include the 1988 National Music Prize for composition, the CEOE Foundation Prize for musical interpretation, and the 2010 Madrid Regional Music Prize.
José Ramón Encinar is a numerary member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Madrid and a correspondent member of the Granada Academy of Fine Arts.
Among his works as a composer, special mention should be made of the opera FIGARO, based on his own libretto (1987), with productions in Madrid and Lisbon, the orchestral works MUSICA NOCTURNA (1985), PROYECTO (1992) and MISE EN SCENE (1994. CD Col legno), and the chamber music works CUM PLENUS FOREM ENTHOUSIASMO (1975), OP.23 (1978), IL LA MANGIO CON LE MANI (1985) and ALMOST ON STAGE (1985). These have been performed during various concert seasons and at specialised festivals, such as the Royan, La Rochelle, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Alicante, Venice Biennale, Musica del nostro tempo (Milan), Warsaw Autumn and London Almeida festivals, among others.
José Ramón Encinar’s conducting activity straddles both the symphonic and operatic fields. Ranking high among his achievements are début performances of a good number of symphonic, chamber and lyrical works, including three of Luis de Pablo’s operas, and works by Yannis Xenakis, Franco Donatoni, Goffredo Petrassi, Cristóbal Halffter, Bruno Ducol, Joao Pedro Oliveira, Francisco Guerrero and a long list of young Spanish composers.
In the recording sphere, attention should be drawn, on the one hand, to his devotion to the more traditional repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries (Ravel, Falla, Rodrigo, Chapí, Albéniz, Barbieri) and, on the other, to his commitment to the dissemination of contemporary music on numerous Italian (Stradivarius) and Spanish labels (Verso, Autor, Glossa), e.g., monographic albums dedicated to Luis de Pablo, Francisco Guerrero, Gabriel Erkoreka, Massimo Botter, David del Puerto, Agustín Charles, etc.
Professionals of renown with whom José Ramón Encinar has collaborated include theatre directors such as Simón Suárez, Emilio Sagi, Francisco Nieva, José Carlos Plaza, Pierre Audi and Bob Wilson, and soloists of the calibre of Joaquín Achúcarro, Alicia de Larrocha, Aldo Ciccolini, Nikolai Luganski, Dmitri Demidenko, Jean Claude Pennetier, Akiko Suwanai, Viviane Hagner, Gerard Caussé, Bruno Giuranna, Peter Wiespelway, Asier Polo, Misha Maisky, Alain Meunier, Roberto Fabbriciani, Michel Portal, Felicity Lott, Carlos Alvarez, Ainoha Arteta, Barbara Hendrix, Dietrich Henschel, Jennifer Larmore, Stephan Margitta, Eva Urbanova, Sylvia Greenberg and José Bros.
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José Ramón Encinar, en la temporada de abono de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi
El director José Ramón Encinar dirige a la Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi (OSE) en un nuevo programa de su temporada de abono 2015/2016. Junto a la soprano Lola Casariego, Encinar afronta un programa con obras de Mozart, Luis de Pablo y Manuel de Falla. Encinar,...
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La Orquesta Sinfónica Tito Schipa, que tiene su sede en Lecce, en la región de Apulia, en el sureste italiano, ha encomendado a José Ramón Encinar la dirección de los cinco conciertos de su Festival Salento Classica, que tiene lugar entre el 20 de agosto y el 9 de...
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