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caballe.jpg Born in Barcelona, Spain, into a family of musicians, Josep Caballé-Domenech studied piano, percussion, singing and violin at the Barcelona Conservatory, and conducting with his father. He took further lessons with David Zinman and Jorma Panula at the Aspen Music Festival, with Sergiu Comissiona and also at Accademia Chigiana in Sienna, and at Vienna's University of Music and Scenic Arts.
He was awarded the Aspen Prize from the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, which he attended during 2000 and 2001. David Zinman then invited him to be Assistant Conductor of the 2002 Aspen Music Festival to where he returned in 2003 to conduct a concert in his own right.
Highlights of recent seasons include engagements with BBC Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National, Bamberg Symphony, Barcelona Symphony, Zurich Tonhalle, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Frankfurt Radio, Malmo Symphony, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi and a New Year's concert with WDR Cologne. As well as return visits to many of those orchestras, future engagements include debut performances with Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at the Prague Autumn Festival, Orchestre National de Belgique and BBC National Orchestra of Wales. From July 2005 Josep Caballé-Domenech becomes Principal Guest Conductor of Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, with whom he will conduct approximately six programmes per season.
In the opera world, he made his debut with the Liceu in Barcelona in spring 2004 in performances of Mozart's Così fan tutte. He conducted a new production of Haydn's Il mondo della luna in Barcelona in May 2004 and returned in Spring 2005 for a production of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore and for performances of Granados Goyescas at the Savonlinna Festival in summer 2005. He has also conducted Portugal's Teatro Sao Carlo in a production of Puccini's La Bohème in autumn 2004 at the Figueira da Foz Festival, and in 2005 and 2006 conducts performances of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at Stuttgart State Opera and at Vienna Volksoper. The 2005/06 Season also sees Josep Caballé-Domenech's debut for the Royal Swedish Opera.
Selected to be 'Sir Colin Davis' Protégé' in the first Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative's inaugural cycle (2002-2003), Josep Caballé-Domenech is also the winner of the 13th Nicolai Malko International Competition for Young Conductors (Denmark, 2001).
Photo credit Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative