We welcome the conductor Martín Baeza-Rubio to MUSIESPAÑA

The Spanish conductor and trumpet player Martín Baeza-Rubio has a highly versatile musical career. He is Principal conductor of the Berlin Opera Chamber Orchestra since 2013. Musical director of the Kammerensemble Modern der Deutsche Oper Berlin since 2004, he has been conducting contemporary music throughout Europe for many years, being responsible for almost sixty premieres (most of them as a conductor). His Debut at the Musikverein in Vienna as conductor was in 2008, and at the Philharmonie in Berlin in 2013. He has always been deeply committed to the expansion of Spanish music. Since 2009 Baeza-Rubio has been the Artistic and Musical Director of the Almansa International Music Festival (FIMA).

Among other orchestras, he has conducted the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Menndelsohnn Kammerorchester at the Gewandhaus, the Toscanini Philharmonic, the Brass and Percussion Ensemble from the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, the Ruse Philharmonic in Bulgaria, the Extremadura Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta in China, the Krasnoyarsk Chamber Orchestra, the Korean Chamber Orchestra from Seoul, the Symphony Orchestra in Costa Rica, the Symphony Orchestra from Extremadura, the Longwood Symphony Orchestra in Boston, the Göttingen Sinfonieorchester, etc.

His extensive operatic background has led him to conduct Don Pasquale by Donizetti at the Basel Opera with huge success, as well as Richard Strauss’ production of Daphne, Carmen by Bizet in China at the Hong Kong Opera, etc. In Spain he conducted productions such as «Curro Vargas» by Ruperto Chapí with the ORCAM at the Theater of the Zarzuela in Madrid, the «European Classical Orchestra» at the Theater Calderón in Valladolid and the «Oviedo Filarmonía» at the Theater Campoamor in Oviedo (whose production won the Spanish Opera Award of the Year in Spain), «La del Soto del Parral» by Soutullo and Vert with the “Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla (ROSS)” in the Theater of the Maestranza in Sevilla and with the ORCAM in the Theater of the Zarzuela, always with great public and critical success.