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Spanish-American conductor François López-Ferrer’s

international career has been marked by recent debuts

with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles

Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orquesta Nacional

de España, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orquesta

Sinfónica Radio Televisión Española, Verbier Festival

Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Opéra de

Lausanne, and George Enescu Philharmonic.

Upcoming engagements include debuts with the Detroit

Symphony Orchestra, Opéra de Paris, Orquesta de la

Comunidad de Madrid, Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico,

and The Orchestra San Antonio, as well as returns to the

Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, Orquesta Sinfónica de

Castilla y León, and the Philharmonisches Orchester Hagen.

His journey began as Associate Conductor of the Cincinnati

Symphony (CSO) and May Festival. In January 2022 he

stepped in for Louis Langrée with the CSO for the US

premiere of Mark Simpson’s Violin Concerto. López-Ferrer’s

artistry was further refined during his tenure as a 2021-

22 Dudamel Fellow with the LA Phil, as well as Resident

Conductor of the Opéra de Paris’s Académie. He was a

featured conductor in the 2022 Bruno Walter National

Conductor Preview alongside the Louisiana Philharmonic.

As a 2018 Verbier Festival Conducting Fellow, he made a

memorable debut stepping in for Iván Fischer in a shared

program alongside Sir Simon Rattle and Gábor Takács-

Nagy. Furthermore, he is a winner of the inaugural 2015

Neeme Järvi Prize at the Menuhin-Gstaad Festival, and

former member of the Deutsche Dirigentenforum.

López-Ferrer holds a master’s degree in Orchestral

Conducting from the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne

and a bachelor’s in Composition from the University

of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Born in

Switzerland and raised in the United States, he embodies

a rich multicultural lineage, with a Cuban mother and

Spanish father, and speaks six languages fluently.

THE SOLTI FELLOW - 2024

FRANÇOIS LÓPEZ-FERRER

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