Pablo Heras-Casado
Pablo Heras-Casado enjoys a multi-faceted conducting career of unusual breadth and variety. The range of his repertoire – from early music through to cutting-edge contemporary scores and from the most intimate of chamber programmes through to grand opera – is remarkable.
During his young career, Heras-Casado has worked with some of the world’s finest orchestras such as BBC Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Freiburger Barockorchester and Staatskapelle Dresden and has developed long-term relationships with some like Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and Mostly Mozart Festival New York.
In May 2011 he conducted the premiere of Toshio Hosokawa's opera Matsukaze at la Monnaie in Brussels in cooperation with Sasha Waltz & Guests and Vocalconsort Berlin with great acclaim. The production also travelled to Warsaw, Luxemburg and Staatsoper Berlin. Other operatic projects in the 2010/11 season included Mahagonny with Teatro Real Madrid and La Fura dels Baus and Nixon in China with the Canadian Opera Company. For the „Outstanding Musical Direction” of Nixon in China, Pablo Heras-Casado was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Awards in 2011 by The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA).
In the summer 2011, he made his debuts with Houston Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood and Orchestra of St Luke's at Caramoor. Furthermore, he returned to the Mostly Mozart Festival New York as well as to the Canadian Opera Company with Gluck’s opera Iphigénie en Tauride. In October 2011 he will give his debut performance with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Other highlights of the upcoming season 2011/12 include first appearances at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden with Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore as well as with Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and choir, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Göteborgs Symfoniker. A special collaboration with Freiburger Barockorchester will begin with a tour in March 2012 and concentrate on exploring the Romantic repertoire.
Recent seasons have seen Pablo Heras-Casado perform with San Francisco Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Kammerphilharmonie at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Cleveland Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, St Paul Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble Orchestral de Paris. In the theatre, Pablo Heras-Casado has conducted The Elixir of Love at English National Opera, Rigoletto at Welsh National Opera, the world premiere of Marc-Olivier Dupin’s ballet Les enfants du paradis for Opéra National de Paris, and a new production of Offenbach’s La Périchole with Opéra National de Bordeaux. He has worked with stage directors Robert Carsen, Jonathan Miller, Rolando Villazón and La Fura dels Baus, just to name a few.
A champion of contemporary music, Pablo Heras-Casado has worked with Ensemble ACJW at Carnegie Hall, Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, Klangforum Wien and Collegium Novum Zürich. Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös headed the jury which unanimously voted Pablo Heras-Casado winner of the 2007 Lucerne Festival Conductors’ Competition which included an acclaimed performance of Stockhausen’s Gruppen. Future plans include several projects with Ensemble intercontemporain.
With his original instrument group Compañía Teatro del Príncipe in Aranjuez he has released world premiere recordings of Castel’s La Fontana del Placer and Boccherini’s La Clementina for Harmonia Mundi. His recent recording of Giuseppe Bonno’s L’isola disabitata and a DVD of Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for Naïve were both released in summer 2011. Next year sees him embark on a significant recording collaboration with Harmonia Mundi.
During his young career, Heras-Casado has worked with some of the world’s finest orchestras such as BBC Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Freiburger Barockorchester and Staatskapelle Dresden and has developed long-term relationships with some like Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and Mostly Mozart Festival New York.
In May 2011 he conducted the premiere of Toshio Hosokawa's opera Matsukaze at la Monnaie in Brussels in cooperation with Sasha Waltz & Guests and Vocalconsort Berlin with great acclaim. The production also travelled to Warsaw, Luxemburg and Staatsoper Berlin. Other operatic projects in the 2010/11 season included Mahagonny with Teatro Real Madrid and La Fura dels Baus and Nixon in China with the Canadian Opera Company. For the „Outstanding Musical Direction” of Nixon in China, Pablo Heras-Casado was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Awards in 2011 by The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA).
In the summer 2011, he made his debuts with Houston Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood and Orchestra of St Luke's at Caramoor. Furthermore, he returned to the Mostly Mozart Festival New York as well as to the Canadian Opera Company with Gluck’s opera Iphigénie en Tauride. In October 2011 he will give his debut performance with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Other highlights of the upcoming season 2011/12 include first appearances at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden with Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore as well as with Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and choir, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Göteborgs Symfoniker. A special collaboration with Freiburger Barockorchester will begin with a tour in March 2012 and concentrate on exploring the Romantic repertoire.
Recent seasons have seen Pablo Heras-Casado perform with San Francisco Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Kammerphilharmonie at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Cleveland Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, St Paul Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble Orchestral de Paris. In the theatre, Pablo Heras-Casado has conducted The Elixir of Love at English National Opera, Rigoletto at Welsh National Opera, the world premiere of Marc-Olivier Dupin’s ballet Les enfants du paradis for Opéra National de Paris, and a new production of Offenbach’s La Périchole with Opéra National de Bordeaux. He has worked with stage directors Robert Carsen, Jonathan Miller, Rolando Villazón and La Fura dels Baus, just to name a few.
A champion of contemporary music, Pablo Heras-Casado has worked with Ensemble ACJW at Carnegie Hall, Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, Klangforum Wien and Collegium Novum Zürich. Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös headed the jury which unanimously voted Pablo Heras-Casado winner of the 2007 Lucerne Festival Conductors’ Competition which included an acclaimed performance of Stockhausen’s Gruppen. Future plans include several projects with Ensemble intercontemporain.
With his original instrument group Compañía Teatro del Príncipe in Aranjuez he has released world premiere recordings of Castel’s La Fontana del Placer and Boccherini’s La Clementina for Harmonia Mundi. His recent recording of Giuseppe Bonno’s L’isola disabitata and a DVD of Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for Naïve were both released in summer 2011. Next year sees him embark on a significant recording collaboration with Harmonia Mundi.