Diego García Rodríguez — Conductor
Galician conductor Diego García Rodríguez leads an intense international career spanning the operatic and symphonic worlds, acclaimed for his versatility, technical precision, and profound musical insight.
He made his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona conducting Puccini’s Turandot, and has since appeared regularly at leading opera houses including the Teatro Real in Madrid—where he has conducted Hänsel und Gretel, Aida, Don Carlo, and Turandot—and the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, where he led a gala opera performance. His international engagements include Macbeth at the National Opera and Ballet of North Macedonia in Skopje, Carmenat the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk, and numerous productions of Verdi and Rossini classics such as Rigoletto, Macbeth, Il trovatore, and Il barbiere di Siviglia in Vigo and San Sebastián. He has also conducted Kurt Weill’s Die Dreigroschenoper for the Centro Dramático Galego.
Deeply committed to contemporary creation, García Rodríguez has premiered works including Simone Spagnolo’s It Makes No Difference… at London’s Tête à Tête Festival, Torsten Rasch’s Die träumenden Knaben at the Two Moors Festival in Devon, and Nani García’s O loro de Carlos V in A Coruña. He was also invited to conduct productions of Madama Butterfly and Le nozze di Figaro at the Dartington Summer Festival.
As a guest conductor, he has collaborated with a wide range of orchestras across Europe, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia, the Galicia Symphony Orchestra, the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra, the Principality of Asturias Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Valencian Community, the Extremadura Orchestra, the Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra (Zlín), the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, the Bydgoszcz Academy Orchestra, and the Galicia Youth Symphony Orchestra, among others.
García Rodríguez is the founder and artistic director of the Taller Atlántico Contemporáneo (TAC), an ensemble dedicated to the performance and promotion of contemporary music and its intersections with other artistic disciplines. With TAC, he has performed at prestigious venues and festivals such as the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, the Semana de Música Religiosa de Cuenca, the Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada, the Festival Internacional de Santander, and the Quincena Musical Donostiarra.
A native of Escarabote (A Coruña, Spain), Diego García Rodríguez began his musical studies in piano and chamber music at the Conservatory of Santiago de Compostela and the Conservatory of Lausanne. He later earned a master’s degree in orchestral conducting at the Hochschule der Künste Zürich under Professor Johannes Schlaefli, and furthered his training with Diego Masson. He also took part in the inaugural Young Conductors Programme of the London Sinfonietta.