Josep Caballé Domenech

Josep Caballé Domenech
Background information
Born 1973
Barcelona, Catalonia
Occupation(s) Conductor, musician
Website www.josepcaballedomenech.com

Josep Caballé Domenech (born 1973) is a Spanish musician and conductor. Designated Music Director of the Bogotá Philharmonic (from 2018),[1] General Music Director of the Opera and Staatskapelle Halle-Saale[2] (Germany), and now in his seventh season as Music Director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic [3] (USA), Josep Caballé Domenech enjoys combining his conducting career with a great symphonic and operatic repertoire.

Life and career

Josep Caballé-Domenech was born in Barcelona, Spain, into a family of musicians. He studied piano, percussion, singing and violin and took conducting lessons with David Zinman and Jorma Panula at the Aspen Music Festival, Sergiu Comissiona, and also at Vienna's University of Music and Scenic Arts.

Conducting career

Josep Caballé Domenech has worked with an impressive list of orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with whom he recorded "Respighi's Roman Trilogy" for Onyx Classics, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, WDR Cologne, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stockholm Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Munich Radio Orchestra, RSO Wien, Bern Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfónica Milano Giuseppe Verdi, the New Japan Philharmonic, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Galicia Symphony Orchestra, Euskadi Symphony Orchestra, Extremadura Orchestra, Orchestra of RTVE Madrid, Houston Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and OFUNAM México among others. His most recent debuts were with the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Orchestre National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon, the Chile Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra,[4] the Bilken Philharmonic Orchestra in Ankara and Orchestre national du Capitole du Toulouse, among others. Additionally he is a regular guest at summer festivals like Aspen Music Festival, Texas Music Festival Houston, Wintergreen Festival in the USA, Londrina Festival in Brasil and Moritzburg Festival in Germany.

Recognized also for his work with operatic repertoire, Maestro Caballé Domenech made his opera debut at Barcelona's Liceu conducting performances of Mozart's Così fan tutti. Subsequent productions at the Liceu include Haydn's Il mondo della luna, Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Granados's Maria del Carmen, and Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. He has also led Liceu productions at the Savonlinna Festival and at La Fenice in Venice. Subsequently, Josep Caballé Domenech was invited by further European opera companies, including Le nozze di Figaro at the State Opera Stuttgart, Vienna's Volksoper (new production of "Tosca", among others) and Theater an der Wien with Plácido Domingo in the principal role, Teatro San Carlo Lisbon, Capitol du Toulouse, ABAO in Bilbao, Komische Oper Berlin, Teatre Royal du Versailles in Paris, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Essen Aalto-Theater and Semperoper Dresden.

Recent Highlights includes the premiere of E. Palomar ballet "Negro Goya" at the 60th International Granada Festival, debut at the Royal Albert Hall London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, debut at the Semperoper Dresden with Mozart's Nozze di Figaro and a new production of Bizet's Carmen[5] and performances of Rossini's Barbier, Kömische Oper Berlin, Teatre Royal du Versailles in Paris, Montpellier Orchestra, Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Radio Chamber Orchestra, Euskadi Symphony Orchestra, Belo Horizonte Philharmonic in Brasil, Tampere Philharmonic in Finland, Puccini's Boheme[6] at the Staatsoper Berlin and Wagner's Ring[7] in Halle, Strauss' Salome at the Teatro Mayor[8] in Bogotá, Donizetti's Roberto Devereux at ABAO in Bilbao, Puccini's Fanciulla del West at the Staatsoper Hamburg, a South American Tour with the Staatskapelle Halle and a concert with Yo Yo Ma that marked the 90th Anniversary Gala of the Colorado Springs Phiharmonic Orchestra,[9] among others.

Caballé-Domenech's 2017/18 Season includes Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana at The Hamburg Staatsoper, Der Fliehende Holländer, Aida, Tosca, Adrianna Lecovreur and Sweeney Todd in Halle, Rosenkavalier in Bogota, and concerts with Dresden Festspielorchester at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg,[10] Nürenberg Philharmonic, Spanish National Symphony Orchestra, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra,[11] Navarra Symphony Orchestra and the debut at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid.

Awards

Josep Caballé-Domenech was awarded the Aspen Prize from the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen. He was selected to be 'Sir Colin Davis' Protégé' in the first Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative's inaugural cycle (2002–2003).

References

  1. ↑ "Josép Caballé Domenech confirmado como director artístico de la OFB". Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá D.C. 14 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "La Staatskapelle Halle y Caballé-Domenech, premio a la mejor programación". 14 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Caballé-Domenech to Stay with Philharmonic Indefinitely". KRCC Southern Colorado's NPR Station. 25 January 2016.
  4. ↑ "Maestro Josep Caballé Domenech makes his debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in an All-Beethoven program". BSO. 24 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Josep Caballé-Domenech estrena en Dresde una "Carmen" con sorpresas". EFE. 27 September 2013.
  6. ↑ "Caballé-Domenech debuta con "La Boheme" navideña de la Staatsoper de Berlín". EFE. 20 December 2013.
  7. ↑ "El Maestro Caballé Domenech dirige la Tetralogia de El Ring de R. Wagner en la Oper Halle". OperHalle. 6 November 2015.
  8. ↑ "Caballé Domenech hace historia en Colombia al convertirse en el primer director que lleva 'Salomé' de Strauss a ese país". Codalario Revista de Música Clásica. 6 February 2016.
  9. ↑ "Colorado Springs Philharmonic hosts Yo-Yo Ma for 90th anniversary". Gazzete. 22 February 2017.
  10. ↑ "Josep Caballé, el primer director español que debuta en la Elbphilharmonie en Hamburgo". Clásica 2 Revista de Ópera y Música Clásica. 29 September 2017.
  11. ↑ "Granados, Falla y Palomar con la OBC y Josep Caballé Domenech". Platea Magazine. 6 November 2017.
Cultural offices
Preceded by
Lawrence Leighton Smith		 Music Director, Colorado Springs Philharmonic
2011–present		 Succeeded by
incumbent
Preceded by
Karl-Heinz Steffens		 General Music Director, Staatskapelle Halle
2013–present		 Succeeded by
incumbent
Preceded by
Enrique Diemecke		 Artistic Director, Bogotá Philharmonic
2018–present		 Succeeded by
incumbent
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