Gustavo Gimeno

Biography

Gustavo Gimeno has been Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg since the 2015/16 season and Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He has led the OPL in multiple concert formats in Luxembourg and performed with the orchestra at numerous leading concert halls in Europe and South America. In addition, he is a sought-after guest conductor throughout the world. In 2021/22 he makes his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and returns for concerts with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich as part of the Grafenegg Festival as well as conducting a new Calixto Bieito production of Fiery Angel at Teatro Real in Madrid. He has a special working relationship with the Concertgebouworkest, which he leads regularly in Amsterdam and on tour. A native of Valencia, Gustavo Gimeno began his international conducting career in 2012 – when he was a member of the Concertgebouworkest – as an assistant to Mariss Jansons. He gathered essential experience as an assistant to Bernard Haitink and Claudio Abbado, who mentored him intensely and had a lasting influence on his career in numerous ways.