ERNEST MARTINEZ IZQUIERDO

Born in Barcelona in 1962, Ernesto Martínez Izquierdo has held the position of music director of the Navarre Symphony Orchestra of Pamplona since 1997 and was music director of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra from 2002 to 2006. He has also conducted the principal Spanish orchestras. Internationally he has worked with orchestras including the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, Philharmonique de Radio France, Helsinki Philharmonic, Orchestra Comunale di Bologna, Beethoven Academie of Antwerp, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich and ensembles such as the Ensemble Contemporain of Montreal, the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, the Austrian group Klangforum Wien and the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra in Helsinki.

In opera outstanding productions include Kaija Saariaho’s opera Adriana Mater, staged by Peter Sellars, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, staged by Emilio Sagi and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, staged by La Fura dels Baus. He has recorded for Telarc, Harmonia Mundi, Col Legno, Ircam, Stradivarius and Naxos. He has been awarded the Spanish National Radio Critical Eye prize, (1995), the Catalan Roland Journalism Prize for Classical Music (2000), and the Latin Grammy (2006). Since 2006, he has been a member of the Catalan Saint George Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

For further information, please visit www.ernestmartinezizquierdo.com.

Role: Conductor
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