Palm Beach Symphony

RAMÓN TEBAR
Resident Conductor

Recently appointed Music Director of the Palm Beach Symphony, Ramón Tebar is establishing himself as one of the most exciting Spanish conductors of his generation. His schedule is getting busier since his arrival to the United States in 2005, when he was invited by B. Aprea and appointed Assistant Conductor of Palm Beach Opera. Since then, he has been with the company for four seasons, working in around 20 opera productions. Currently, he is working in his third season with Palm Beach Symphony and Cincinnati Opera, while maintaining a full schedule in Europe.

He has worked as Assistant Conductor for the 50th Spoleto “Festival di Due Mondi”, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and in recordings for BBC London, Naxos and Telarc labels. He has been a Specialist Teacher at Valencia Conservatorio in Spain, and teacher and guest conductor at Skive Opera Academy in Denmark

Ramón Tebar started studying piano at a very early age. Very interested in conducting, he began professionally in the opera world at the age of fifteen. After beginning his conducting career, he was invited to study orchestral conducting by B. Aprea, Main Teacher and Head of Conducting at Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, Italy. As comfortable in the operatic repertoire as in the symphonic, he became very soon Assistant Conductor of the Youth National Orchestra of Spain. In the meantime, he graduated with honors, and was awarded with two Honorary Mentions and Special Honor Award in Piano and Chamber Music Degrees, the Bärenreiter Prize, Special Prize in the Musical Youth of Spain Competition, Medaille d´Honneur “Villa de Claira” (France) and awarded in the Third International Conducting Competition “Luigi Mancinelli” (Italy). A large number of grants enabled him to study and meet artists like T. Koopman, L. Berman, A. de Larrocha, J. Achúcarro, Labeque Sisters, M. Maisky and M. Rostropovich.

Since then, and while his operatic repertoire has broadened to more than 30 operatic titles during recent seasons, he continues to constantly expand his symphonic repertoire. So far, he has worked with orchestras like: Youth National Orchestra of Spain, Extremadura Symphony Orchestra and Spanish Radio Television Orchestra in Spain; Ishjek Opera Orchestra and Lugansk Philharmonic in Russia; Pilsen Philharmonic in Czech Republic; Jutland Ensemble in Denmark; Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, Orchestra Sinfonica di Bari and Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Italy; Miami Orchestra, Naples Opera Orchestra, Palm Beach Opera Orchestra, Palm Beach Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony and Atlanta Symphony in the United States.

Among the soloists he has worked with are singers like: M. Caballé, T. Berganza, I. Cotrubas, L. Lima, V. Zeani, R. Scotto, R. Ann-Swenson, D. Dessi, F. Armiliato, D. Upshaw, and has been assistant to conductors such as Biondi, Frizza, Harth-Bedoya, Serebrier, Zedda, Spano, Lynn-Wilson, Kellog, Korsten and Muller. He has performed in theaters like Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Zaragoza Auditorium, Koln Philharmonie, National Auditorium in Madrid, Cincinnati Music Hall, Raymond Kravis Center and Adrienne Arsht Center in US, etc.

Highlights of last season are two concerts for the Concert Association of Florida in Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center; Don Pasquale, Madame Butterfly, Italiana in Algeri, La Boheme with Renata Scotto as stage director; a broadcasted concert with Spanish Radio Television Orchestra (RTVE); the Opening Night Concert at the 2009 Santo Domingo Music Festival with Deutsche Gramophon artist Ben Heppner; a tour performing Puccini’s Messa di Gloria in Valle d’ Itria Festival in Martina Franca (Italy); and a very successful new production of the Italian premiere of Iphigenie auf Tauris by Gluck in R. Strauss revision; two subscription concerts with the Palm Beach Symphony; a documentary for London BBC program Musical Prodigies, and an invitation by maestro Philippe Entremont to be his assistant. He has also been assistant conductor for Sir Roger Norrington’s Le nozze di Figaro and Ainadamar, Golijov’s new opera at the Cincinnati Summer Festival 2009.

Among his future engagements are performances of Lucia di Lammermoor with the Florida Grand Opera and Eglise Gutierrez, in Miami; three subscription concerts with the Palm Beach Symphony; The Battleship Potemkin with music by Shostakovich with the same orchestra at Kravis Center’s Regional Arts Series; a concert with Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra of Czech Republic; an invitation to conduct again in Martina Franca’s Festival della Valle d’Itria, in Italy; an invitation by Montserrat Caballé to conduct the Grand Final with orchestra of the Caballé International Singing Competition in Spain; and a reinvitation to conduct the Opening Night at the Santo Domingo Festival next season.

He has recently been honored with the 2010 Henry C. Clark Conductor Award by Florida Grand Opera in US.
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