Josep Caballè-Domenech
Sundry
Born
Barcelona
Studies
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Highlights
Music Director Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra
Music Director Opera and Staatskapelle Halle / Saale
Prizes
Aspen Prize of the American Academy of Conducting
Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative’s Cycle (2002-2003) als ‘Sir Colin Davis’ Protégé’
Recordings
Onyx, Tritó, BBC
Short Biography
Newly appointed General Music Director of the Staatskapelle Halle (Germany), where he will be in charge of the Philharmonic Orchestra and the Opera House, and now in his third Season as Music Director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic (USA), Josep Caballé-Domenech was born in Barcelona, Spain, into a family of musicians. He studied piano, percussion, singing and violin and took conducting lessons with David Zinman and Jorma Panula at the Aspen Music Festival, Sergiu Comissiona, and also at Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts.

He has conducted orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic in London, Tonhalle Zurich, WDR Cologne, Swedish Radio Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, Deutsches Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, Munich Radio Orchestra, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Baden Baden Philharmonic, Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra in Milan, Trondheim Symphony, New Japan Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, and OFUNAM México, among others and includes the production of Torroba’s Luisa Fernanda at the “Theater an der Wien” with Plácido Domingo and the RSO Wien, the World Premiere of Enric Palomar’s “La Cabeza del Bautista” at the Barcelona Gran Teatre del Liceu, Puccini’s “Tosca” new production at the Vienna Volksoper, debut at the Royal Albert Hall London and a recording of Respighi’s Roman Trilogy for Onyx Classics with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.

Future engagements include a new production of Bizet’s Carmen at the Semperoper Dresden and performances of Rossini’s Barbier and Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro, Puccini’s Boheme at the Staatsoper Berlin and new productions in Essen and Toulouse.

2014/2015
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