The talent of a young and brilliant conductor. Teresa Riveiro Böhm, new artist of MUSIESPAÑA

Musiespaña welcomes Teresa Riveiro Böhm, one of the most outstanding conductors of the new European  generation.

 Riveiro Böhm was appointed as Leverhulme Conducting Fellow with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, in partnership with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland for the 2019/20 and 2020/21 season. She is also winner of the Neeme-Järvi-Prize at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival 2019 and in 2018 was presented with the Special Award for
Exceptional Artistic Achievement by the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz.

Previous orchestral highlights include the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (10th International Conducting Masterclass with David Zinman), the Gstaad Festival Orchestra, the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, the Savaria Symphony Orchestra and the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz.

In previous seasons Riveiro Böhm received the first prize at the Dichler Wettbewerb in Vienna and the first  orchestra prize from the Savaria Symphony Orchestra.

She first gained experience as a conductor through a number of choirs and orchestras in Vienna, including the Cappella Albertina Wien choir, of which she was Artistic Director. She has assisted with opera productions such as Britten The Rape of Lucretia at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, Mozart Die Zauberflöte at Oper Burg Gars in Austria, and other choral works, including Mendelssohn Elijah in Trier Cathedral as part of the Mosel Music Festival, and with Bruckner Symphony No.9 at Cologne Cathedral.

Future engagements in the 2019/20 season include concerts with the Liverpool Mozart Orchestra conducting Sibelius Symphony No.2, the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie
Konstanz and the Basel Chamber Orchestra. Riveiro Böhm has been selected to participate in the Conductors´ Academy with Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in spring 2020 and has also been appointed as Tanglewood Conducting Fellow in the summer of 2020.

Riveiro Böhm studied Orchestral Conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna (MDW) and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne. She  previously studied Choral Conducting at the Institute for Church Music at the MDW. At five years old she received her first violin lessons and studied at the Central Music School affiliated with the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow.