Spanish conductor Pablo González is a highly articulate and intelligent musician with a provocative wit and an infectious passion for music making.  In September 2010 he took up the position of Music Director of Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya.   

In addition to his commitments in Barcelona and guest conducting appearances with all the major orchestras in Spain, highlights of the current season include concerts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonkünstler Orchestra and Nationaltheater Orchester Mannheim.  He also enjoys a regular relationship with Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, with whom he recently completed a recording project of works by Schumann, released to acclaim on Hänssler Classic. Other plans include appearances with Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra della Svizzera italiana and Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège.

Highlights of recent seasons include the London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitol de Toulouse, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Danish Radio Sinfonietta, City of London Sinfonia, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and Winterthur Musikkollegium.

In the opera house Pablo González conducted Bizet’s Carmen in San Sebastian in 2008 and last season he completed a highly-successful run of performances of Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias for Opera de Oviedo.  Plans include Strauss’s Daphne in concert at Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona and Janáček’s Jenůfa in Gran Canaria.

Soloists with whom González has appeared include Anne-Sophie Mutter, Maxim Vengerov, Truls Mørk, Renaud Capuçon, Viviane Hagner, Alban Gerhardt, Violetta Urmana and Christopher Maltman.

Born in 1975 in Oviedo, González studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.  A previous winner of the Donatella Flick Competition, he has held the positions of Associate Conductor with both the London Symphony Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, as well as Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra of the City of Granada.  He was also the winner of the Eighth Cadaqués International Conducting Competition in 2006.