Pablo Heras-Casado Conductor

2021 Artist of the Year at the International Classic Music Awards, Pablo Heras-Casado regularly appears in Europe with Philharmonia Orchestra, Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Münchner Philharmoniker, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, SWR Symphonieorchester, Wiener Symphoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Paris Orchestra and London Symphony. In North America he is regularly invited by the symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Philadelphia, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

He was Principal Conductor of Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York between 2011 and 2017. He enjoys a fruitful, long-term collaboration with Freiburger Barockorchester, featuring extensive touring and recording projects. In 2023, they tour and record together Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. His recent projects include Mozart’s Don Giovanni at La Scala, Monteverdi’s operatic trilogy (L’Incoronazione di Poppea, L’Orfeo, and Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria) with Wiener Staatsoper, and the Ring at Teatro Real in Madrid.

In the summer 2023, he will make his debut as guest conductor at the Bayreuth Festival with Parsifal. A dedicated educator, Pablo Heras-Casado makes a personal commitment to work with young musicians all over the world. Highly committed to the Spanish charity “Ayuda en Acción”, he conducts an annual charity concert at Teatro Real in Madrid. In 2018 he was granted the title Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic. A recipient of numerous awards, including two “Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik”, two “Diapason d’Or”, and a “Latin Grammy”, he also recorded many albums for Deutsche Grammophon, Decca and Sony Classical.

At the Paris Opera: Les Enfants du paradis, 2008