Newly appointed Artistic Director of the Orquesta de Extremadura from the 2025/26 season and Principal Guest Conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra, Valencia-born Roberto Forés Veses is a winner of the Evgeny Svetlanov Conducting Competition and Luigi Mancinelli International Opera Conductors Competition. From 2011 until 2021, he was Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Orchestre National d’Auvergne.

 

The many orchestras he has conducted include the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Saint-Petersburg Symphony, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid, Osaka Philharmonic, Nagoya Philharmonic, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Israel Chamber Orchestra and Israel Camerata Jerusalem. Opera is also close to his heart — he has conducted at the Opernhaus Zurich, Bolshoi Opera, Teatro Regio di Torino, at the opera companies of Montpellier, Lausanne, Helsinki, Lyon, Rouen, Saint-Etienne and elsewhere.

 

Forés Veses regularly performs at many international festivals, including La Folle Journée de Nantes and Tokyo, Printemps des Arts (Monaco), Les Flâneries musicales de Reims, Festival de Polignac and the Berlioz Festival.

 

Maestro Forés Veses has made more than a dozen recordings. They include Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Alena Baeva (Warner Classics, ICMA Award-nominated); Strauss’s Metamorphosen with Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht; Mahler’s arrangement of Schubert’s Death And the Maiden.

 

This is his first appearance at the IPO.