Spanish conductor Francisco Valero-Terribas returns as guest conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica for the fourth concert of the 2025 Official Season, taking place on 30 May and 1 June at the historic National Theatre of Costa Rica in San José.
"It was a great concert thanks to the extraordinary work of the guest conductor. Francisco Valero-Terribas can boast today of an unblemished musical career in clear progression".
"Lorin Maazel himself pointed out his innate abilities and presented him as one of the conductors to follow in the immediate future".
"The list of maestros with whom he has had the opportunity to work is evidence of the talent he possesses".
"From what we have seen and heard in Cordoba, Valero-Terribas makes body movement the essential vehicle of this communication and the orchestra, magnetised by the magic of the moment, transcribes it into sounds".
"One is astonished by the continuous impression of naturalness achieved. Few concerts have been witnessed in the Gran Teatro with such an orchestral performance".
"The first moments of the Prelude alerted us to the fact that we were about to listen to a version of great quality, with a precise control of intensity - restrained emotion - and of breathing - exact silences.
"The sound lived and the music unfurled in the hall leaving an inexplicable sense that the way it was presented was as it was meant to be."
"A musician who has performed in Cordoba giving proof of his enormous class. Few occasions like this
The ‘Messe in C’ op. 86 will bring to a close the International Festival of Sacred Music of Bogotá 2024 which takes place during the month of September in the Colombian capital and which brings together a large line-up of soloists, orchestras and specialised ensembles in an edition which this year has as its theme ‘La Consagración’ (The Consecration).
The closing concert, which will take place on October 6th in the centrally located Church of San Ignacio, will include, in addition to the aforementioned Mass in C, the overture ‘Die Weihe des Hauses’ op. 124 by the same composer. Valero-Terribas will be conducting two ensembles belonging to the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá: the Coro Filarmónico Juvenil and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Mujeres.
The Grand Closing Concert is expected to be a multitudinous ceremony that will bring to an end a month full of concerts, conferences and exhibitions that make this Festival a benchmark in its genre.
On his return to Spain, Valero-Terribas will conduct the second subscription concert of the 24/25 season of the Orquesta de Córdoba in the Gran Teatro of the Andalusian capital. On October 17th and 18th, under the title ‘Introspection and Vitality’, he will present a programme that includes a premiere by the young composer M. Jesús Amaro as well as the Suite from Fauré's ‘Pelléas et Mélisande’ and Francis Poulenc's Sinfonietta.
The Spanish conductor Francisco Valero-Terribas will perform on April 20th in the 23/24 season of the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, which will take place in the colossal concert hall of the Zorlu PSM Turkcell Sahnesi with a capacity of more than 2300 seats.
The programme, based on fables, includes works by Stravinsky and Prokofiev, with the participation of the PerPoc Puppet Company and the narration of the Turkish actor Öner Erkan.
Thus continues an intense season in which Valero-Terribas has given concerts in emblematic halls such as the Seoul Arts Center or the Palacio Euskalduna together with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao, Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga or Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia.
Valero-Terribas replaces Chloé van Soeterstède in the next programme of the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa's 2023-2024 season, entitled "Alena Baeva and the Romanticism of Schumann".
The concerts will take place on the 11th and 12th at the Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao and feature the renowned violinist Alena Baeva as guest soloist.
Valero-Terribas, who has taken on the entire programme with less than 48 hours' notice, includes Lili Boulanger's "D'un matin du printemps" in first audition for the BOS, Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 with Alena Baeva and R. Schumann's brilliant and complex Symphony No. 2.
The 16th edition of the Gran Concierto de Fin de Año del Teatro Cafam not only celebrates the beginning of a new year, but also celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Teatro Cafam and the Fundación Orquesta Sinfónica de Bogotá FOSBO, and will be an ode to love in different musical languages, from opera to zarzuela and ending with our beloved Colombian music.
And for this important celebration we will have luxury guests, starting with the soprano Julieth Lozano, who recently received the award for best voice in the category Dame Kiri Te Kanawa in Cardiff Singer of the World 2023, along with more than 70 artists from the Orquesta Sinfónica de Bogotá and the Sociedad Coral de Bogotá, all under the baton of Francisco Valero-Terribas, one of the most acclaimed contemporary conductors in Spain, the maestro who has conducted major orchestras around the world.
Guest Conductor: Francisco Valero-Terribas (Spain)
Valero-Terribas conducts the Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra in the 310th season concert entitled Rachmaninoff Ritual at the Seoul Arts Centre.
In this concert, dedicated to Rachmaninoff's 150th birthday and featuring Korean pianist Hyo-Sun Lim, some of his most representative scores such as Vocalise, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Symphonic Dances will be performed.
"The baton -full of musicality, strength and honesty- of Francisco Valero-Terribas, was in charge of the conducting"
"Valero-Terribas baton full of contrasts, expressiveness and musicality: the connection with the audience was immediate. Indeed the delicacy and, in turn, the compositional strength of Sibelius was technically codified by a dedicated and resolute Valero-Terribas"
"an audience who admired a Philharmonic conducted with expressiveness and a seductive communicative capacity"
"From the podium, Valero-Terribas received prolonged applause that confirmed the strength and expressiveness of what is, without doubt, one of the best conductors of his generation.
With KBS Symphony Orchestra and Jongho Park in Seoul Arts Center
