Diego GarcíaRodríguez — Conductor
Galician conductor Diego GarcíaRodríguez pursues an intense international career that unfolds with authority between the operatic and the symphonic repertoire, earning recognition for his versatility, technical command, and profound musical insight.
He made his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona conducting Turandot by Giacomo Puccini, marking the beginning of a close relationship with major opera houses. At the Teatro Real, Madrid he has conducted Hänsel und Gretel, Aida, Don Carlo, and Turandot, and at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, València he led a gala opera performance. Internationally, he has conducted Macbeth at the National Opera and Ballet of North Macedonia, Carmen at the Baltic Opera, Gdańsk and numerous productions of Verdi and Rossini classics—including Rigoletto, Macbeth, Il trovatore, and Il barbiere di Siviglia—in Vigo and San Sebastián. He also conducted Die Dreigroschenoper by Kurt Weill for the Centro Dramático Galego.
Deeply committed to contemporary creation, GarcíaRodríguez has premiered It Makes No Difference… by Simone Spagnolo at the Tête à Tête Festival, London Die Träumenden Knaben by Torsten Rasch at the Two Moors Festival, and O loro de Carlos V by Nani García in A Coruña. He was also invited to conduct Madama Butterfly and Le nozze di Figaro at the Dartington Summer Festival.
As a guest conductor, he has collaborated with leading European orchestras including the Real Filharmonía de Galicia, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, the Orquesta de Extremadura, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga, the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, the Bydgoszcz Academy Orchestra, and the Xove Orquestra Sinfónica de Galicia, among others.
He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Taller Atlantico Contemporaneo (TAC), an ensemble dedicated to the performance and promotion of contemporary music and its dialogue with other artistic disciplines. With TAC, he has appeared at prestigious venues and festivals such as the Auditorio Nacional de Musica, the Semana de Musica Religiosa de Cuenca, the Festival Internacional de Musica y Danza de Granada, the Festival Internacional de Santander, and the Quincena Musical Donostiarra.
Born in Escarabote (A Coruña, Galiza), GarcíaRodríguez 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 Zurich University of the Arts under Professor Johannes Schlaefli, and furthered his training with Diego Masson. He also participated in the first “Young Conductors Programme” of the London Sinfonietta.