BIO
Pedro Halffter Caro is a conductor and composer, and member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría. Artistic Director of the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville from 2004 to 2018, he has also served as Principal Guest Conductor with the Nürnberger Symphoniker, Principal Conductor of the Bayreuth Festival Youth Orchestra, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, and Artistic Director of the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla. He has appeared in such prestigious concert halls as the Vienna Musikverein, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London or Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and has occupied the podium of ensembles like the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. On the opera stage, he has conducted Die schweigsame Frau at the Bavarian State Opera and Munich’s Opera Festival, Salome and Der ferne Klang in Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, and Turandot at the Nationaltheater Mannheim.
