Carlos Domínguez-Nieto

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Carlos Domínguez-Nieto (born May 9, 1972 in Madrid ) is a Spanish conductor . He is chief conductor and artistic director of the “Orquesta de Córdoba” in Spain and artistic director of the chamber orchestra “concierto münchen”.

life and career

Domínguez-Nieto began to develop an interest in music at the early age of three. He studied piano, violoncello, composition and conducting in Madrid, Vienna a. a. with Leopold Hager and in Salzburg with Dennis Russell Davies and Jorge Rotter .

In 1995 he made his debut with the Buenos Aires Philharmonic at the Teatro Colón . In 1997 he was assistant conductor of the Spanish National Youth Orchestra, where he worked with Mstislav Rostropovich and András Ligeti . In 1999 he won the conducting competition of the Budapest Festival Orchestra and became the orchestra's assistant conductor with Iván Fischer . In the same year he made his debut at the Hungarian National Opera in Budapest with a Spanish gala program. In 2001 he won first prize at the 8th International Conducting Competition in Lisbon.

In the past few years he has developed a broad opera repertoire and directs new opera productions in Europe and America, from Salzburg ( Der Freischütz ) to La Paz in Bolivia ( The Barber of Seville ) . He conducted the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, the Hungarian National Orchestra, the Buenos Aires Philharmonic, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Bruckner Orchester Linz , the Orquesta Metropolitana de Lisboa and numerous concerts in Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela and Spain. In Germany he is a regular guest with the Staatskapelle Halle , the Münchner Rundfunkorchester and the Münchner Symphoniker . In the 2008/09 season he made his debut with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne with Igor Stravinski's Firebird and with the Munich Philharmonic . Since August 2009 he has been chief conductor and from 2010 to 2015 GMD at the Landestheater Eisenach . He is the founder and artistic director of the concierto münchen chamber orchestra.

Recordings are available from Sony-BMG and Bayerischer Rundfunk with the Münchner Symphoniker , the Münchner Rundfunkorchester and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria .

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personal data
SURNAME Domínguez-Nieto, Carlos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish conductor
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid