Biography
RAÚL MIGUEL
ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR
Raúl Miguel Rodríguez is one of the most complete musicians of the musical panorama of our country.
Awarded 2nd prize at the London International Conducting Competition organized by the London Classical Soloists Orchestra (2015). His training as a conductor has gone hand in hand with the prestigious conductor George Pehlivanian having received advice from masters such as Jorma Panula, André Waignein, José Rafael Pascual Vilaplana, Octav Calleya, Lorenzo Ramos or Achim Holub.
Outstanding trumpet player, student of Martín Baeza and José Maria Ortí, he has participated with a scholarship in the first Puebla Instrumenta meeting in Mexico, collaborating with the Festival Orchestra and with the brass ensemble German Brass. He has been first trumpet of several orchestras, among them: Joven Orquesta Sinfónica Fundación Coca-Cola and Orquestas de Cámara, Sinfónica y de Música Contemporánea del Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, Filarmónica de Madrid and Orquesta Filarmonía de España.
He has collaborated with orchestras such as the Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquesta de Cámara Reina Sofía, Orquesta Staatskapelle de Berlín, Deuscht Oper, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Filarmónica Arturo Toscanini, under the baton of maestros such as Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Metha, Christian Thielemann, Marc Minosky, Rafael Frubeck de Burgos, George Pehlivanian, Eliau Inbal, etc.
Works
He has made numerous collaborations with different artists, including the recording of “Historia del Soldado” by Igor Stravinsky with Paquito D’Rivera, with which they have been awarded a Latin Grammy for best classical music album.
His concern for a humanistic education led him to pursue doctoral studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. With the highest grades and “CUM LAUDEN”.
He has conducted numerous ensembles, including London Classical Soloists, Ho Chi Min City Ballet and Oper Orchestra (Vietnam), Orquesta Sinfónica de la ESMUC, Orquesta de Extremadura, Orquesta de Tenerife, ADDA Simfónica, Orquesta Nacional de Cuba, Orquesta Nacional de Guatemala, Orquesta Sinfónica de UAEH, Joven Camerata del Salvador, Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil de UAA-UAZ, Banda Sinfónica de Zacatecas (Mexico), Banda Sinfónica Complutense de Alcalá de Henares, Banda de Conciertos de San José (Costa Rica), Banda de conciertos de Heredia, European Soloists Orchestra, the Almansa Festival Orchestra, Krasnoyarsk Chamber Orchestra (Russia), Orquesta de Camerata de Castilla la Mancha, as assistant conductor in the JONDE, JORCAM (Brass and Percussion Group).
He has conducted soloists of the stature of Reinhold Friedrich, Manuel Blanco, James Ackley or Eriko Takezawa, and his most immediate project is to conduct different orchestras in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Bulgaria, Romania and Italy.
Videos
LONDON
II Mov. Symphony No. 7 Beethoven.
Dir: Raúl Miguel Rodríguez
Final concert of the International Conducting Competition, organized by the London Classical Soloists Orchestra in January 2015.
BRUSSELS
First Movement. 3rd Symphony by Felix Mendelssohn.
Dir: Raúl Miguel Rodríguez
ESMUC Symphony Orchestra, Touquet International Music Master.
Master George Pehlivanian.
April 2014
MEXICO
Sheherezade
Nicolái Rimsky Kórsakov
Dir: Raúl Miguel Rodríguez
May 2019.