PABLO HERAS-CASADO
A conductor of “glowing reputation”
September 2020
Pablo Heras-Casado is principal conductor of New York’s Orchestra of St. Luke’s and principal guest conductor of Madrid’s Teatro Real. Additionaly he regularly directs the leading orchestras and ensembles of Europe and North America. The Spanish artist, described by The Telegraph as a conductor of “glowing reputation,” Pablo Heras-Casado enjoys an unusually varied and broad-ranging career and has achieved remarkable success in repertoire ranging from renaissance polyphony and 19th-century grand opera to works by Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös and George Benjamin.
Pablo Heras-Casado was born in Granada on 21 November 1977, the son of a policeman and a housewife. His remarkable artistic journey began seven years later when, encouraged by his parents, he joined his elementary school choir; soon after he began piano lessons and progressed to study music at the Granada Conservatory.
In great demand as guest conductor, he regularly appears in Europe with the Philharmonia and London Symphony orchestras, Orchestre de Paris, Münchner Philharmoniker, amongst numerous others. He has also conducted the Berliner and Wiener Philharmoniker, The Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra. Heras-Casado was Principal Conductor of Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York between 2011 and 2017, having performed at Carnegie Hall and recorded together with it.
In the operatic field, he currently leads Wagner’s complete Ring Cycle at Teatro Real in Madrid, where he is Principal Guest Conductor, over four consecutive seasons.
Musical America’s 2014 Conductor of the Year, Pablo Heras-Casado holds the Medalla de Honor of the Rodriguez Acosta Foundation, Medalla de Andalucia 2019 and Ambassador Award of this region. He is Honorary Ambassador and recipient of the Golden Medal of Merit by the Council of Granada, as well as Honorary Citizen of the Province of Granada, his hometown. In 2018 he was awarded the title Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic.
Highly committed to the Spanish charity Ayuda en Acción as a Global Ambassador, Heras-Casado supports and promotes the charity’s work internationally, and conducts an annual charity concert at Teatro Real in Madrid.
In celebration of Beethoven’s anniversary in 2020, Heras-Casado releases of six recordings, including Symphony No.9, the complete Piano Concerti and Choral Fantasy.
You’ll find all the details about the conductor and his outstanding artistic career, in his official webpage: http://pabloherascasado.com/