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Montaño, Carlos Mena and La Madrileña in the 23-24 Music Season of the BBVA Foundation
José Antonio Montaño y La Madrileña estarán junto al contratenor Carlos Mena en la Temporada de Música 23-34 de la Fundación BBVA para presentar el programa de concierto DIXERUNT, fruto de su último trabajo discográfico publicado por Sony Classical. Se interpretarán...
Montaño conducts Beethoven and Mendelsson with the Forum Musikae Symphony Orchestra
José Antonio Montaño, as director of the Forum Musikae Symphony Orchestra, will conduct the first concert of the 2023-2024 season. On this occasion the program to be performed will be "Das Märchen von der schönen Melusine" by Felix Mendelssohn and the Fifth Symphony...
José Antonio Montaño again with the I Pomeriggi Musicale orchestra from Milan
José Antonio Montaño returns to Italy to conduct the I Pomeriggi Musicale orchestra in Milan, with which he made his debut last season. On this occasion, Montaño will conduct the program Silent Carmen with original music by Timothy Brock for the silent films Carmen...
José Antonio Montaño debuts with SONY CLASSICAL label
The conductor, Founder and artistic and musical director of La Madrileña period instrument orchestra, José Antonio Montaño, makes his debut at the prestigious Sony Classical company with an exquisite work of historicist recovery product of years of work, which comes...
Mozart and Brunetti Symphonies in the Royal Palace of Madrid with La Madrileña
José Antonio Montaño and La Madrileña will appear in the 2022 musical season of the Patrimonio Nacional in an evening of symphonies by Mozart and Brunetti chosen expressly for this cycle by Maestro Montaño. The concert will take place in the Royal Palace of Madrid in...
Maestro José Antonio Montaño returns to Italy to debut with the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali
After more than a decade conducting all seasons in Italy, opera and ballet productions as well as symphonic concerts in some of the best opera houses such as La Scala Theater in Milan, the Teatro Comunale of Ferrara, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa or the Teatro...
Conductor José Antonio Montaño returns to the Teatro Real in Madrid
José Antonio Montaño returns to the Teatro Real in Madrid to conduct the concert Recuerdas de una vida, a concert in tribute to the Spanish classical guitar where works by the composer and guitarist Ángel G. Piñero will be performed. Maestro Montaño held the position...
BBVA Foundation awards the prestigious Leonardo Grant to José Antonio Montaño
José Antonio Montaño has been selected by the BBVA Foundation as the 2021 winner of its prestigious Leonardo Grant, which is offered to researchers and cultural creators in the category of Music and Opera. Thanks to this grant, Maestro Montaño will be able to produce...
José Antonio Montaño joins the Forum Musikae High School of Music as Director of its Symphony Orchestra
Drawing on his broad experience in conducting and the building of youth orchestras, José Antonio Montaño has joined the Forum Musikae High School of Music as the director of its symphony orchestra for the 2021-2022 school year. Not only has José Antonio Montaño’s...
Montaño joins the research team at the Didone Project of the Complutense Institute of Musical Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid
José Antonio Montaño has joined the research team of the Didone Project, a research project at the Complutense Institute of Musical Sciences (ICCMU) at the Complutense University of Madrid. His work on this project strengthens his profile as researcher, a role he has...
Maestro José Antonio Montaño returns to the Stresa Festival to conduct the Milan Symphony Orchestra
José Antonio Montaño returns to the Stresa Festival in Italy to conduct the Milan Symphony Orchestra where he will share billing with artists such as Gianandrea Noseda, András Schiff and Javier Perianes. Maestro Montaño made his debut in 2019 at the prestigious Stresa...
Excellent press reception of the CD “Requiem” of José de Nebra recorded by Montaño on the Pan Classics label
This recording of the historical «Requiem» by Spaniard José de Nebra, composed and premiered in 1758 on the occasion of the death of Doña Bárbara de Braganza, Queen of Spain, is the very first internationally of this masterpiece of the 18th Century Spanish Baroque....
Montaño conducts the Concert “Baroque Europe”
La Madrileña, the orchestra of period instruments under the direction of maestro José Antonio Montaño are returning to the International Festival of Sacred Music of the Community of Madrid. The early music ensemble will collaborate with soprano María Espada in a...
Montaño, La Madrileña and soprano María Espada inaugurate the Sacred Music Series of Las Rozas
Coinciding with the "European Early Music Day", as well as the anniversary of the birth of J.S. Bach, the period instrument orchestra La Madrileña, under the direction of José Antonio Montaño, and soprano María Espada will open the Sacred Music Series of Las Rozas...
José Antonio Montaño presents the first-ever recording of the Requiem by José de Nebra
José Antonio Montaño has given us the first-ever recording of one of the great musical works of 18th Century Spain—José de Nebra’s Requiem Mass and Office of the Dead. This historic recording follows on the heels of Maestro Montaño’s performance of the work in...
Montaño conducts the Symphony Orchestra of the High Performance Advanced School Of Music-ESMAR
José Antonio Montaño will be the guest conductor at the next orchestral event at the ESMAR (High Performance Advanced School of Music). The concert by student musicians under Montaño´s direction will take place in the Auditorio Catarroja in Valencia on Saturday,...
José Antonio Montaño Conducts the Orchestra of Córdoba
Maestro José Antonio Montaño makes his debut with the Orchestra of Córdoba as conductor in two special concerts in the Gran Teatro de Córdoba on the 1st and 2nd of January, 2020. The conductor from Madrid will lead the Córdoba orchestra in a New Year´s program...
José Antonio Montaño cover of the prestigious music magazine Melómano.
"José Antonio Montaño, versatility and commitment by Lucía Martín-Maestro Verbo. José Antonio Montaño, conductor and founder of "La Madrileña", has been on the podium of the best orchestras, theaters and festivals both in our country and in Europe for the last twenty...
Montaño makes his debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia in the Spanish premiere of “The Fall of the House of Usher” by José M. Sánchez-Verdú
After his success at the prestigious Stresa Festival in Italy conducting the Milan Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of The Fall of the House of Usher, Maestro José Antonio Montaño is set to oversee the Spanish premiere of this new composition by José M....
José Antonio Montaño conducts the Orquesta Clásica Santa Cecilia with guitarist Rafael Aguirre in a tribute concert to Joaquín Rodrigo
José Antonio Montaño will conduct the Orquesta Clásica Santa Cecilia of the Fundación Excelentia in a concert paying homage to composer Joaquín Rodrigo. The program, comprised entirely of the compositions of Maestro Rodrigo, commemorates the 80 years since the...
Maestro José Antonio Montaño debuts at the Italian Stresa Festival with the Milan Symphony Orchestra in a world premiere by composer José M. Sánchez-Verdú.
José Antonio Montaño will conduct next August 31, 2019 the world premiere of music composed by José M. Sánchez-Verdú for the film La Chute de la Maison Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher). This premiere was commissioned by the Stresa Festival in collaboration with...
José Antonio Montaño with La Madrileña Orchestra at the National Music Auditorium of Madrid
Maestro José Antonio Montaño and La Madrileña period instrument orchestra will be present at the Symphonic Hall of the National Music Auditorium of Madrid in the season 18-19. The program includes the W. A. Mozart’s 41st symphony (Jupiter), the Spanish Vicente Martín...
Maestro José Antonio Montaño again with l’Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano
After his greatly successful performances with the Orchestra Sinfonica of Milan during last two seasons, Maestro José Antonio Montaño is invited again by the prestigious Italian ensemble to conduct a concert which will take place in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, on...
Baroque Zarzuela by José de Nebra with Maestro Montaño, La Madrileña and soprano Susana Cordón
Following the hugely successful performance of the Oficio y Misa de Difuntos (Requiem Mass) during the Festival Internacional de Arte Sacro (International Festival of Sacred Art) in Madrid, in which Maestro José Antonio Montaño conducted La Madrileña in conjunction...
Montaño conducts the Requiem by José Nebra with La Madrileña, Victoria Choir and Schola Antiqua
Maestro José Antonio Montaño is conducting La Madrileña, Coro Victoria and Schola Antiqua in the interpretation of the Requiem by José de Nebra (1702-1768). The concert which conmemorates the 250 anniversary of Nebra´s death has been requested by the Festival...
José Antonio Montaño invited to conduct l’Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala of Milan
José Antonio Montaño has been invited by l'Orchestra dell'Accademia Teatro alla Scala to teach master classes which involve preparing a concert program that will be performed in La Scala in Milán on September 15th and 18th, featuring Plácido Domingo, Jorge de León and...
Maestro Montaño conducts Ravel, Falla, Piazzolla & Cañizares with l’Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano
After his greatly successful performance with l'Orchestra Sinfonica of Milan during last season, Maestro José Antonio Montaño is invited again by the prestigious Italian ensemble to conduct two more concerts which will take place in the auditorium Largo Mahler in...
Montaño and Cañizares at the Baluarte Theater in Pamplona with the Navarra Symphony Orchestra
After having conducted the world premiere of the Ballet El laboratorio del Dr.Fausto (a production by the Teatro Real of Madrid), Maestro José Antonio Montaño returns to the Baluarte Theater in Pamplona, accompanied by the Navarra Symphony Orchestra. On this occasion,...
José Antonio Montaño with the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra
Maestro José Antonio Montaño makes his debut with the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra in a concert that will take place in the square of the emblematic Cathedral of Zamora on July 28th 2017. The concert features the Mexican tenor Héctor Sandoval and...
Montaño returns with l’Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano conducting Bernstein, Gershwin, Márquez & Cañizares
After his greatly successful performance with l'Orchestra Sinfonica of Milan during last season, Maestro José Antonio Montaño is invited again by the prestigious Italian ensemble to conduct two more concerts which will take place in the auditorium Largo Mahler in...
The public votes La Madrileña, conducted by Montaño, as finalist in “BEST SPANISH ANCIENT MUSIC GROUP ” category
La Madrileña, an orchestra conducted by José Antonio Montaño, has been voted by the public to be finalist under "BEST SPANISH ANCIENT MUSIC GROUP" category in the GEMA AWARDS- Association of Spanish Groups of Ancient Music. www.lamadrilegna.com...
José Antonio Montaño Interview at MozartCircle
Thanks to your intense activity as conductor, artistic director, music scholar and critical editor, you managed to develop an important series of music projects on a very special Viennese triad: Mozart, Haydn and Martín y Soler. So you really re-create, this way, that...
José Antonio Montaño with La Madrileña at Teatro Real of Madrid
The orchestra conductor and music director José Antonio Montaño, returns to the Teatro Real de Madrid with La Madrileña, a period instrument orchestra, joined by the soprano Susana Cordón, in a concert included in the presentation activities of the production La...
Concert “Gems of the Spanish Baroque Zarzuela” with La Madrileña
José Antonio Montaño is to lead again La Madrileña, his period instrument orchestra, to interpret the program Gems of the Spanish baroque zarzuela along with the soprano Susana Cordón. The program provides a journey through the XVIII century with a selection of...
Debut with the Milan Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra conductor José Antonio Montaño visits Italy again to debut with Milan Symphony Orchestra in two symphonic concerts that will take place in the Auditorio Largo Mahler of Milan on October the 14th and the 16th 2016. Celebrating the "Día de la Hispanidad" (Day...
Recording with Madrid Symphony Orhestra and Tenor Dmitry Korchak
Maestro José Antonio Montaño will work again along Maestro Evelino Pidó in the musical direction of the new CD recording for tenor Dmitry Korchak that includes a selection of arias and choruses by composers such as Mozart, Rossini, Donizzeti or Bellini. Montaño is to...
Bellini’s I Puritani at Teatro Real in Madrid
Maestro José Antonio Montaño reappears at Teatro Real in Madrid to work along the Maestro Evelino Pidó in the musical direction of the opera I Puritani by Bellini with Emilio Sagi as stage director and Daniel Bianco as scenographer. In the leading roles we have the...
Tribute concert to the Tenor José Ferrero with the Albacete Symphonic Orchestra
A great number of celebrated artists will play a tribute concert to the late tenor José Ferrero with José Antonio Montaño as the conductor of the Albacete Symphony Orchestra. The touching gala will take place in the Teatro Circo in Albacete on May the 5th 2016....
“Zaguán & Alento” with the Spanish National Ballet and the Murcia Symphony Orchestra
Maestro José Antonio Montaño continues his intensive collaboration with the Spanish National Ballet and will conduct again the "Zaguán & Alento" after he has been in charge of its whole opening at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid last season. On this occasion,...
Montaño presents La Madrileña Period Instrument Orchestra
La Madrileña, a Period Instrument Orchestra conducted by José Antonio Montaño, will make its first public appearance on the 15th of January in Madrid, in the concert hall of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes of San Fernando (Madrid). The programme includes works...
José Antonio Montaño debuts at Festival Internacional of Santander
Conductor José Antonio Montaño makes his debut at Festival Internacional de Santander conducting Fantochines, an opera by composer Conrado del Campo and libretto by Tomás Borrás. Fantochines, premiered under Montaño last March thanks to a Fundación Juan March and...
World premiere of “Zaguán & Alento” at Teatro de la Zarzuela, a Spanish National Ballet production
Maestro José Antonio Montaño returns to Teatro de la Zarzuela to conduct the World Premiere of the Spanish National Ballet’s new production Zaguán & Alento, original score by Fernando Egozcue. This is Montaño’s fourth production with the Spanish National Ballet....
Premiere and recovery of “Fantochines”, Opera by Conrado del Campo
José Antonio Montaño will conduct the 21th century premiere of Fantochines, an opera by composer Conrado del Campo with libretto by Tomás Borrás. Fantochines is a Fundación Juan March and Teatro de la Zarzuela coproduction. Montaño has led the revision of the edition...
José Antonio Montaño’s debut at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa (Italy)
Orchestra conductor José Antonio Montaño makes his debut at Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa. Teatro Carlo Felice's Orchestra and Spanish National Ballet will be under Montaño's direction in his return to Italy. Suite Sevilla will be performed in this event. It is not the...
Opera in the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid
Maestro José Antonio Montaño returns to the Teatro de la Zarzuela of Madrid for the 2014-2015 season following the great success achieved there last year with the Spanish National Ballet. On this occasion the Teatro, in collaboration with Institution Juan March, has...
World premiere of “Arrión” composed by José Antonio Montaño
On April 26, 2014, Maestro José Antonio Montaño's composition Arrión will enjoy its world premiere. The piece, commissioned by the Coro de Cámara de Madrid, will be performed at the XVI Gran Premio Nacional de Canto Coral to be held in Zaragoza. More information at...
Concert with the Orquesta de Extremadura
Maestro Montaño once again conducts the Orquesta de Extremadura, welcomed back after the successful performances of Medea with the Orchestra and with the Spanish National Ballet at the Festival Internacional del Teatro Clásico de Mérida. In this occasion listeners...
“Medea” with the Spanish National Ballet and the Orchestra of Extremadura in the Ancient Roman Theater of Mérida
After winning both critical and popular acclaim in a collaboration with the Spanish National Ballet at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Maestro José Antonio Montaño will once again conduct the emblematic Medea by M. Sanlúcar. This time he will be conducting the...
Concert in the National Auditorium in Madrid with the Madrid Symphony Orchestra OE
May 31, José Antonio Montaño will close out the current season of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra OE with a concert at the National Auditorium of Music in Madrid. The program includes the overture from Don Giovanni and the Symphony Nº 38 in D major, K. 504 "Prague" by...
Cimarosa’s Opera “Il Matrimonio Segreto” in the Teatro Comunale of Ferrara (Italy)
Maestro José Antonio Montaño makes his debut at the Teatro Comunale of Ferrara. Once again takes the podium conducting the Orchestra Filarmonia Veneta to help bring D. Cimarosa’s opera, Il matrimonio segreto, to the stage. www.teatrocomunaleferrara.it More information...
Haydn’s Opera “Il Mondo Della Luna” in the Teatro Arriaga of Bilbao
José Antonio Montaño has previously conducted Haydn’s opera La vera costanza in Spain, France, Italy and Belgium, and now is working on another of Haydn’s opera, Il mondo della luna. He will serve as Assistant to Maestro Jesús López Cobos at the Teatro Arriaga in...
Pergolesi’s “La Serva Padrona” at Teatro Real in Madrid
After last season’s production of Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev at Teatro Real in Madrid, José Antonio Montaño will again work with the Etcétera Company to produce Pergolesi’s opera La serva padrona in the Teatro Real. www.teatro-real.com www.osm.es More information...
Concert with the Madrid Symphony Orchestra OE and the Chamber Choir of Madrid
Conductor José Antonio Montaño leads the Madrid Symphony Orchestra OE and the Chamber Choir of Madrid in a concert with works by Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart, in the Santa Teresa & San José Church in Madrid on March 23, 2013. www.osm.es More information at SCHEDULE...
Concert with the Madrid Symphony Orchestra at the National Auditorium in Madrid
José Antonio Montaño will be at the harpsichord to interpret, along with violinists Rafael Khismatulin and Margarita Sikoeva, the Concerto Grosso No. 1 for two violins, harpsichord, prepared piano and strings, by Alfred Schnittke. Maestro Pinchas Steinberg conducts...
Cimarosa’s Opera “Il Matrimonio Segreto” in the Teatro Comunale of Treviso (Italy)
The Teatro Comunale of Treviso, Italy, awaits the return of Maestro José Antonio Montaño, seen here previously in the production of Haydn’s opera La vera costanza. On this occasion he will be conducting the Orchestra Filarmonia Veneta in a production of D. Cimarosa’s...
Montaño with the Spanish National Ballet and the Orquesta de la Comunidad of Madrid in the Teatro de la Zarzuela
After completing the recording of Suite Sevilla, José Antonio Montaño will collaborate again with the Ballet Nacional de España to bring M. Sanlúcar’s Medea to the stage. On this occasion he will lead the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid in performances in October...
Maestro Montaño jury for the Toti Dal Monte International Competition for Singers
Maestro José Antonio Montaño has once again been invited to sit on the jury for the XLII Toti Dal Monte International Competition for Singers, which will take place in the Teatro Comunale Mario Del Monaco in Treviso between June 25 and July 1, 2012. The work which to...
Beethoven’s Symphonies with Conductor José Antonio Montaño and the Madrid Symphony Orchestra OE
José Antonio Montaño will lead the Madrid Symphony Orchestra OE in concerts of the Third and Fifth Symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven. www.osm.es www.teatro-real.com More information at SCHEDULE 2012
Recording of “Suite Sevilla” for the Spanish National Ballet
After the premiere of the Spanish National Ballet production of Suite Sevilla in the Teatro de la Zarzuela of Madrid, José Antonio Montaño will record this music with the Madrid Symphony Orchestra OE. The sound engineer will be José Vinader, with whom they previously...
Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” in the Teatro Real of Madrid
José Antonio Montaño will lead the musical and theatrical workshop based on Monteverdi’s opera L’Orfeo which is programmed to be performed in the Teatro Real beginning March 24, 2012. www.teatro-real.com More information at SCHEDULE 2012 [wc_spacing...
Haydn’s “La Vera Costanza” at l’Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège
Having already conducted Franz Joseph Haydn’s La vera costanza in Spain, Italy and France, José Antonio Montaño will again participate in this co-production in various European theaters. This latest production will be in the Royal Opera of Wallonie-Liege in Belgium,...
Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” at Teatro Real in Madrid
As part of the concert series of the teaching project of the Teatro Real of Madrid, José Antonio Montaño will once again take the podium to lead the Madrid Symphony Orchestra OE. On this occasion they will perform Sergei Prokofiev’s wonderful symphonic tale Peter and...
Baroque Concert with Maestro Montaño at Teatro Monumental in Madrid
After their acclaimed performance of A. Rodríguez de Hita’s zarzuela Las labradoras de Murcia in the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, José Antonio Montaño will lead the Period Instrument Orchestra La Tropa Barroca of Madrid in concert in Madrid’s Teatro...
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