Gustavo Gimeno


That evening all of a sudden I learned to like Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony. Thanks to its unique interpretation of Gustavo Gimeno, who without doubt follows in the path of Yevgenij Mravinskij.
Tageblatt Luxembourg

Conductor

Born in Valencia in 1976, Gustavo Gimeno began his international conducting career in 2012 as  assistant to Mariss Jansons, while he was a member of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. He also gained invaluable experience as  assistant to Bernard Haitink and Claudio Abbado, who strongly supported and influenced him in many respects as  a mentor.

Gustavo Gimeno has been Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg since 2015. In the  February 2018 the  he made his debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and was named the designated chief conductor of the orchestra in September of that same year. As the eleventh Chief Conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, he begins his five-year tenure in the 2020–21 season.

He has conducted the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg in a wide variety of concert formats, appearing with the orchestra in many of the most prestigious concert halls throughout Europe. He builds on the successful tours with guest performances in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Turkey and Greece.

Gustavo Gimeno has shared the stage of the Philharmonie du Luxembourg with such soloists as  Daniel Barenboim, Krystian Zimerman, Khatia Buniatishvili, Bryn Terfel, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Leonidas Kavakos, Yuja Wang, Katia and Marielle Labèque. He conducted the Cleveland Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony, the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the St Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington), the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI (Torino), the Munich Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (Amsterdam).

Gustavo Gimeno made his opera debut in 2015 with Bellini’s Norma at the Valencia Opera House. In 2017 he conducted Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra and Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg. He appeared at the Zurich Opera for the first time in January 2019 with Verdi’s Rigoletto, in a production directed by Tatjana Gürbaca. In February 2020 Gustavo Gimeno conducted Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg in the world premiere of Francisco Coll’s new Violin Concerto.

Gustavo Gimeno and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg will continue their series of recordings on the classical label Pentatone, which was launched in 2017. Since this collaboration began, the symphonies No. 1 of Shostakovich and Bruckner, Ravel’s complete ballet music to Daphnis et Chloé and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 have been released.
Information for April 2020

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