
David Giménez Carreras © Sonia
Balcells/Fidelio Artist
David Giménez Carreras (born
in Barcelona
in 1964) is a Spanish
conductor. He is the
Music Director of the
Orquestra Simfònica del
Vallès. and a principal guest conductor of the
George Enescu Philharmonic
Orchestra. Giménez Carreras is the nephew of
tenor José Carreras
and has conducted many of his concerts, including the 1998 outdoor
concert in Barcelona attended by 50,000 people to mark the 10th
anniversary of the José Carreras International
Leukemia Foundation.
Career
Giménez
Carreras began his musical training at the Conservatori Superior de Música del
Liceu
in Barcelona. He then joined the
Hochschule für Musik in
Vienna
, studying with Prof. Karl Osterreicher.
He later
studied for three years at the Royal Academy of Music
in London, with Colin
Metters and Sir Colin
Davis. He made his professional debut as a conductor in
1994 in a concert given by José Carreras and has gone on to conduct
concerts featuring many prominent opera singers including
Montserrat Caballé,
Agnes Baltsa,
Plácido Domingo,
Dennis O'Neill,
Bryn
Terfel,
Angela Gheorghiu and
Roberto Alagna.
His debut at London's
Royal Opera
House
came on December 27, 1999 when he conducted a
concert by Alagna and Gheorghiu. He also conducted the
couple's joint concert at the Théatre de l´Opéra in Monaco
in 1997, and
most recently Roberto Alagna's 2008 'Viva Verdi' concerts at the
Auditorio Baluarte in Pamplona
, the
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
in Paris
, and the
Teatro
Real
in Madrid
.
Giménez
Carreras's debut as an opera conductor came in 1995 when he
conducted Carmen at the Staatsoper
Stuttgart
, an opera he was later to conduct at the Hungarian
State Opera House
in Budapest
(1996), the Macerata
Opera Festival (2006), and the Festival Jardins del Cap Roig in
Calella de
Palafrugell
(2007). On June 4, 2000 he made his debut at the
Gran Teatre
del Liceu
conducting Ermanno
Wolf-Ferrari's Sly in the
Liceu's first ever performance of the opera. His other European
opera performances have included Fedora, with Agnes Baltsa in the title
role and Plácido Domingo and José Carreras alternating in the role
of Count Loris Ipanov at Zurich Opera
(1998); The Merry Widow
(1998), Manon (2004) and Don Pasquale (2006) at the Festival de
Ópera de Las Palmas
; The Barber of
Seville at the Opéra National de Bordeaux
(2003); Rigoletto
at the Teatro Principal de Mahon
(2003);
Aida at the Romanian
National Opera
in Bucharest
(1999) and the Deutsche Oper Berlin
(1999); Werther at
the Festival
Internacional de Santander (2004); La forza del destino at the
Festival Terre Verdiane in Busseto
(2004), and
La bohème at the Teatro Real
in Madrid
(2006).
Further
afield, he made his local debut in Israel
in 2003,
conducting Simon
Boccanegra at the Israeli National Opera.
He has
also conducted in many major concert halls in China
, Japan
and Australasia, largely in performances by José
Carreras, including the tenor's reprisal of the title role in
Sly for Washington
National Opera's Japan Tour in 2002. Giménez Carreras
made his North American debut in 1994, conducting the
Colorado Symphony Orchestra.
Since
then, he has conducted many of José Carreras' US concerts, as well
as Montserrat Caballé's 1995 concert at the Ravinia
Festival
in Illinois
. In addition to his concert work in the US,
he has conducted
Tosca (1999) and
Madame Butterfly (2000)
for
Fort Worth Opera;
Faust (2001) for
Baltimore Opera;
La bohème (2001)
and
L'elisir d'amore
(2002) for
Portland Opera; and
Rigoletto (2003) for
New
Orleans Opera.
Selected discography
- Montserrat Caballé, Montserrat Martí: Two Voices, One
Heart, (Gran Teatre de Liceu Symphony Orchestra, David Giménez
Carreras conductor), RCA Victor/BMG Classics, 1995.
- José Carreras: My Romance, (Tallis Chamber Choir, The
London Musicians Orchestra, David Giménez Carreras conductor),
Erato, 1997.
- Wolf-Ferrari: Sly, (José Carreras (tenor), Isabelle
Kabatu (soprano), Sherrill Milnes
(baritone), Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre de Liceu, David
Giménez Carreras conductor), Koch Schwann, 2001.
- Por amor: Romanzas y dúos de zarzuela (María Gallego (soprano), José Bros
(tenor), Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, David Giménez Carreras
conductor), Discmedi Blau, 2007.
References
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