Pedro Halffter

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Cydebot (talk | contribs) at 01:12, 8 June 2010 (Robot - Moving category Spanish conductors to Spanish conductors (music) per CFD at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 May 24.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Pedro Halffter Cato (born Madrid, 1971) is a Spanish conductor. He is artistic director of the Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Teatro de la Maestranza (Seville) and Music Director of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria in Las Palmas.

Born in Madrid, he studied conducting at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, receiving a degree in 1995. He has been the recipient of the Jugend musiziert Prize, Young Composers Prize of the Deutsche Musikrat, Young Conductors Prize of the European Union, as well as grants from the Juventudes de Madrid and the Banco de España, and a Fulbright scholarship for composition studies in New York.[1]

Notes and references