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Gustavo Gimeno is Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg (OPL) and incoming Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO).
Gustavo Gimeno made his Canadian debut with the TSO—to public and critical acclaim—in February 2018 with a virtuosic concert program featuring music by Beethoven, Ligeti, and Dvořák. Gimeno has signed a five-year contract with the TSO to begin in the 2020/2021 season. He will be the TSO’s 11th Music Director starting in the Orchestra’s 99th season. He will return to Toronto on June 29 & 30, 2019 to conduct The Firebird—a program anchored by the famous Stravinsky suite, also featuring works by Sibelius and Prokofiev.
Since he became Music Director of the OPL in 2015 he has conducted the orchestra in a wide variety of concert formats, appearing with the orchestra in many of the most prestigious concert halls throughout Europe. In 2017 the OPL and Gustavo Gimeno extended their contract until the 2021/2022 season inclusive. In the current season he builds on the successful tours of previous seasons with guest performances in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Turkey and Greece. During past seasons, Gustavo Gimeno has shared the stage of the Philharmonie Luxembourg with soloists such as Daniel Barenboim, Krystian Zimerman, Khatia Buniatishvili, and Bryn Terfel. Guest artists during the 2018/2019 season will include Leonidas Kavakos, Yuja Wang and Katia and Marielle Labèque.
Gustavo Gimeno and the OPL will continue their series of recordings on the classical label PENTATONE, which was launched in 2017. Since this collaboration began, the First Symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich and Anton Bruckner, Maurice Ravel’s complete ballet music to Daphnis et Chloé, Gustav Mahler’s Fourth Symphony and, most recently Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”, the ballet music to “Jeu de cartes”, “Agon” and the re-discovered “Chant funèbre” have been released.
Gustavo Gimeno is also a much sought-after guest conductor worldwide. In 2018/2019, he returns to the Cleveland Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony, the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. He makes his debut conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Gustavo Gimeno will again appear with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, which specializes in historically informed performance practice, conducting symphonies by Robert Schumann.
