Maximiano Valdés

Maximiano Valdés (born June 17, 1947 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean conductor .

biography

Valdés first studied piano and violin in Santiago de Chile before completing his studies at the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome , where he also studied composition and conducting. After receiving his diploma in piano, he decided to focus on the career of a conductor and assisted Franco Ferrara in Bologna , Siena and Venice as well as with Sergiu Celibidache in Stuttgart and Paris . This was followed in 1976 by an assistant position at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice and in 1978 in the same position in Tanglewood under Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa .

His first successful guest appearance in North America in October 1987 with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra was followed in 1989 by his appointment as music director of the same orchestra, whose position he held until 1998. Through his work in Buffalo , he gained a high profile in the United States and was therefore invited as a guest conductor by well-known orchestras. Including St. Louis , Montreal , Baltimore , Seattle , Houston , Dallas of the New World Symphonies and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra . It was inevitable that afterwards he was offered engagements as a guest conductor worldwide. Further positions as chief conductor or music director were at the Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturia in Spain and at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile. Since 2008 he has been music director of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra .

Engagements in North America

Other orchestral engagements

Orquesta Sinfónica de la Juventud Venezolana Simón Bolívar (1978–1982)
Dresden Philharmonic
Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Sinfonia Varsovia
Krakow Philharmonic
National Symphony Orchestra of Polish Radio
Orchester Philharmonique de Nice
Lisbon Philharmonic
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Orquesta Sinfonica d'Estado de São Paulo

Summer festival engagements

Individual evidence

^ History of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. BPO archive, accessed on March 29, 2017 (English).
^ New World Symphony. Retrieved March 29, 2017 (English).
↑ biography. CM Artists New York, accessed March 29, 2017 .
^ Michael Huebner: Conductor profile Maximiano Valdés. September 24, 2013, accessed March 30, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Valdés, Maximiano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 17, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Santiago de Chile

[1] History of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. BPO archive, accessed on March 29, 2017 (English).

[2] New World Symphony. Retrieved March 29, 2017 (English).

[CM_Artists-3] biography. CM Artists New York, accessed March 29, 2017 .

[4] Michael Huebner: Conductor profile Maximiano Valdés. September 24, 2013, accessed March 30, 2017 .