“One of the music world’s rising stars…Put him in front of an orchestra and he becomes a human dynamo.”
“Startlingly excellent…Treviño maintains irresistible momentum, absorbing each detail into the general crescendo…he doesn’t skimp on the menace, but he and his musicians keep swinging to the end, dancing into darkness.”
Mexican-American conductor Robert Treviño has rapidly emerged as one of the most exciting maestros of the younger generation performing today. He serves as the Music Director of the Basque National Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI.
The 2024-25 season will see Robert Treviño make debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony (Tokyo), while there will be welcome returns to regular collaborators including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Orchestra della Svizzeria Italiana and Osaka Philharmonic. And, of course exciting projects, including recordings, with the Basque National Orchestra and Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI.
Other orchestras Robert Treviño has conducted include the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Münchner Philharmoniker, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Dresdner Philharmonie, SWR Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, NDR Hannover, Gürzenich Orchester Köln, MDR-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Bamberger Symphoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, Filarmonica della Scala and Helsinki Philharmonic. He has also conducted a wide variety of orchestras in North America – among them the symphony orchestras of Cleveland, Baltimore, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Utah, Toronto and Detroit. Further afield he has conducted leading ensembles such as the São Paulo Symphony, NHK Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic, Osaka Philharmonic, China Philharmonic, Russian National Orchestra and St Petersburg Philharmonic. He has led orchestras at many leading festivals, among them Mahler Festival Leipzig, Milan Mahler Festival, Enescu Festival, Puccini Festival and Interlochen Festival. Treviño’s opera work has included productions at Washington National Opera, Opernhaus Zurich, and La Fenice (Venice).
His recording contract with Ondine has resulted in a widely-praised complete Beethoven symphonies cycle, two much-acclaimed Ravel albums, a Rautavaara album, Respighi’s Roman Trilogy, and “Americascapes” – a hugely-admired survey of little-known American masterpieces, that won ‘Best Recording of 2021’ from Presto Music and was shortlisted for a Gramophone Award. “Americascapes 2 – American Opus” is to be released in November 2024. Additionally, a cycle of Bruch symphonies with the Bamberger Symphoniker was released by CPO, to universally positive reviews. Between them, Robert Treviño’s recordings have garnered more than 15 accolades from respected reviews publications around the world.
Robert Treviño has commissioned, premiered and worked closely with many leading composers, among them John Adams, Philip Glass, Sofia Gubaidulina, George Walker, Jennifer Higdon, Andre Previn, Augusta Read Thomas, Shulamit Ran, Ramon Lazkano and John Zorn.