“
As a conductor,
I would rather give up some decibels
to give importance to the balance and phrasing.
”
An inspired and highly sensitive conductor, Tomàs Grau is characterized by his precise and clear gesture and by the sincerity of his musical readings, which seek to transmit the light, delicate emotions of each of the scores, sharing with the audience his love for the music.
He has conducted many international soloists, including Anne-Sophie Mutter, Maria João Pires, Midori, Maxim Vengerov, Lisa Batiashvili, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Mischa Maisky, Ivo Pogorelich, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Gil Shaham, Ermonela Jaho, Gautier Capuçon, Seong-Jin Cho, Anna Fedorova, Javier Perianes, Sabine Meyer, Steven Isserlis, Paul Lewis, Alexei Volodin, Stephen Kovacevich, Reinhold Friedrich, Edgar Moreau, Mark Padmore, Alice Sara Ott and Jasmine Choi in all the main concert halls in Spain, as well as internationally at the Carnegie Hall in New York, Dubai Opera and Tonhalle Zürich.
Nowadays, Tomàs is the Music Director of the Franz Schubert Filharmonia, and he is often invited to conduct other orchestras, such as the Tokyo Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia, Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, North Czech Philharmonic, Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, ADDA Simfònica, Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia, Orquesta de Córdoba and Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, among others. He has recorded for labels such as SONY Classical, ARS Produktion (label of the year at the International Classical Music Awards) and Discmedi.
Among his immediate engagements, he will be conducting such soloists as Yulianna Avdeeva, Paul Huang and Leticia Moreno, and orchestras as the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia and Orquesta Filarmónica de Boca de Río y Veracruz, with repertoires as important as Mahler’s Second Symphony, Brahms’ Requiem and Turandot.
Born in Barcelona in 1979, Tomàs Grau studied music at the Superior Conservatory of Music in his own city. He continued his conducting studies at the Superior School of Music of Catalonia, where he graduated in Orchestral Conducting, with top ratings. His Orchestral Conducting studies were completed in the Wiener Meisterkurse.
He has conducted many international soloists, including Anne-Sophie Mutter, Maria João Pires, Midori, Maxim Vengerov, Lisa Batiashvili, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Mischa Maisky, Ivo Pogorelich, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Gil Shaham, Ermonela Jaho, Gautier Capuçon, Seong-Jin Cho, Anna Fedorova, Javier Perianes, Sabine Meyer, Steven Isserlis, Paul Lewis, Alexei Volodin, Stephen Kovacevich, Reinhold Friedrich, Edgar Moreau, Mark Padmore, Alice Sara Ott and Jasmine Choi in all the main concert halls in Spain, as well as internationally at the Carnegie Hall in New York, Dubai Opera and Tonhalle Zürich.
Nowadays, Tomàs is the Music Director of the Franz Schubert Filharmonia, and he is often invited to conduct other orchestras, such as the Tokyo Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia, Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, North Czech Philharmonic, Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, ADDA Simfònica, Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia, Orquesta de Córdoba and Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, among others. He has recorded for labels such as SONY Classical, ARS Produktion (label of the year at the International Classical Music Awards) and Discmedi.
Among his immediate engagements, he will be conducting such soloists as Yulianna Avdeeva, Paul Huang and Leticia Moreno, and orchestras as the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia and Orquesta Filarmónica de Boca de Río y Veracruz, with repertoires as important as Mahler’s Second Symphony, Brahms’ Requiem and Turandot.
Born in Barcelona in 1979, Tomàs Grau studied music at the Superior Conservatory of Music in his own city. He continued his conducting studies at the Superior School of Music of Catalonia, where he graduated in Orchestral Conducting, with top ratings. His Orchestral Conducting studies were completed in the Wiener Meisterkurse.