ANGEL GIL-ORDÓÑEZ, conductor Resume ____________________________________________________ PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Leadership Positions Music Director and Co-founder PostClassical Ensemble Washington, DC 2002-Present Artistic and Educational Advisor Trinitate Philarmonia León, Mexico 2009-Present Principal Guest Conductor Perspectives Ensemble – New York 2012-Present Music Director (Adjunct Professor) Georgetown University Orchestra Washington, DC 2012-Present Music Director and Co-founder IberArtists New York, Inc. 1997-Present Director of Orchestral Studies (Adjunct Professor) Music Director and Conductor Wesleyan Ensemble of the Americas Wesleyan University Orchestra Wesleyan University Concert Choir Professor of Conducting Director of Private Lessons, Chamber Music and Ensembles Program Wesleyan University (Connecticut) 1998-2012 Music Director and Founder musica aperta washington Washington, DC 1997-2001 Associate Conductor National Symphony Orchestra of Spain Madrid, Spain 1991-1993 Music Director and Founder Academia de Madrid Principal Guest Conductor Classical Orchestra of Madrid Angel Gil-Ordóñez Page 2 Music Director and Conductor Orchestra and Choir of the Spanish Cultural Institute Munich, Germany 1986-1991 Guest Conducting ORCHESTRAS: -China: Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra -France: Paris Philharmonic Orchestra -Germany: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra University of Mainz Symphony Orchestra Gauting Symphony Orchestra. -Italy: Opera di Trieste Symphony Orchestra -Mexico: Opera de Bellas Artes Symphony Orchestra (Mexico City) Xalapa Symphony Orchestra Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra. -Panama: National Symphony Orchestra -Peru: National Youth Symphony Orchestra -Spain: National Orchestra of Spain Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra Symphony Orchestras of Madrid, Galicia, Asturias, Bilbao, Castilla y León, Málaga, Córdoba, and Valencia. Classical Orchestra of Madrid Academia de Madrid Camara XXI Chamber Orchestra Andrés Segovia Chamber Orchestra Reina Sofía Chamber Orchestra Sa Nostra Chamber Orchestra. -Switzerland: Angel Gil-Ordóñez Page 3 Solists de Berne Chamber Orchestra -USA: Brooklyn Philharmonic (New York) American Composers Orchestra (New York) Orchestra of St. Luke’s (New York) National Gallery Orchestra (Washington DC) Pacific Symphony Orchestra (California) Hartford Symphony Orchestra (Connecticut) Boulder Philharmonic (Colorado) Perspectives Ensemble (New York) Colorado Opera Symphony Orchestra (Denver) Santa Fe Chamber Orchestra (New Mexico) CHOIRS: -Germany: Schütz Choir of Munich Choir of the University of Mainz -Spain: Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid Coro de Valencia Escolanía de Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados (Valencia) Coro Ars Nova (Madrid) Coro del Teatro Lírico Nacional de Madrid -USA: Opera Colorado Choir (Denver) Woodley Ensemble (Washington, DC) St. Paul’s Parish Boy and Girl Chorister and Men’s Schola (Washington, DC) The Collegiate Chorale (New York City) Morgan State University Choir (Baltimore) Georgetown University Chamber Singers (Washington, DC) Washington Bach Consort (Washington, DC) Choral Arts Society (Washington, DC) Washington National Cathedral Boy and Girl Choristers (Washingotn, DC) Angel Gil-Ordóñez Page 4 OPERA: -Italy: Opera de Trieste -Mexico: Bellas Artes Opera -Spain: Teatro Lírico Nacional -USA: Opera Colorado (Denver) Mount Vernon College Opera Company (Washington DC) Strathmore Music Center (Bethesda, MD) BALLET: -Mexico: Pilar Rioja Ballet Company (Mexico City) -Spain: Ballet de Víctor Ullate (Madrid) -USA: María Benítez Ballet Company (New Mexico) Gabriela Granados Ballet Company (New York) Pilar Rioja Ballet Company (New York) Peridance Contemporary Dance Company (New York) FESTIVALS: -Germany: Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival -Mexico: Festival Internacional Cervantino (Guanajuato) -Spain: Festival Internacional de Galicia Festival de Peralada (Barcelona) Festival de Sagunto (Valencia) Festival de Fuengirola (Málaga) Angel Gil-Ordóñez Page 5 Recordings RTVE Label: Los Sueños de Manuel de Falla. Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra of Spain SGAE Label: Young Spanish Composers. Camara XXI chamber orchestra Trompa Records: Música Cinematografica by Manuel Balboa. Symphony Orchestra of Galicia NickelOdeon II Records: Film music by Jose Luis Garci. Soundtrack from Academy Award “El Abuelo”. Madrid Symphony Orchestra. Naxos DVDs and CDs: Restored Soundtrack of New Deal Documentaries The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River by Virgil Thomson. PostClassical Ensemble. Floyd King, narrator (DVD and CD). World Premiere recording (Naxos Artist of the Week) Restored Soundtrack of The City by Aaron Copland. PostClassical Ensemble. Francis Guinan, narrator (DVD). World Premiere recording (Naxos Artist of the Week) Discover Film Music. PostClassical Ensemble. Works by Virgil Thomson (CD) Xavier Monsalvatge. Madrigal. Perspectives Ensemble. Sasha Cooke and Tim Fain, soloists. CD Hiawatha Melodrama. Beckerman/Horowitz. Arrangements by Angel Gil-Ordóñez. PostClasscial Ensemble. Kevin Deas, narrator and bass soloist. CD PRIZES Composition Prize at the II Certamen de Música Coral Alavesa Alava (Spain) 1985 WAMMIE award in the category of best conductor from the Washington DC association of professional musicians 2011 Angel Gil-Ordóñez Page 6 HONORS In 2006, the King of Spain awarded Mr. Gil-Ordóñez the country’s highest civilian decoration, the Royal Order of Queen Isabella, which is equivalent to a knighthood, for his work in advancing Spanish culture in the world, in particular for performing and teaching Spanish music in its cultural context. EDUCATION -Conducting Studies With Sergiu Celibidache 1986-1992 Münchner Philharmoniker (Munich, Germany). Mainzer Universität-Musikhochschule (Mainz, Germany). Seven Semesters Five Master Classes (Cluny and Paris, France) Three Conducting Courses at the Scuola di Alto Perfezionamiento Musicale (Saluzzo, Italy) Two Assistantships at the Orchesterakademie des Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (Germany) -Germany: Composition studies with Günter Bialas, Paul Engel and Friedrich Schwenk (Munich) Violin Master Classes with Rony Rogoff (Oberuff) -France: Studies of Contemporary Music at the Centre Acanthes (Paris) Iannis Xenakis (Composition), Irvin Arditti (Violin), James Wood (Choral Conducting) Claude Helffer and Rudolph Frisius (Analysis) Centre Acanthes Conducting Master Classes with Pierre Boulez (Avignon) -Spain: Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Summer Courses Musical Analysis Master Classes with Paul Badura-Skoda Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid Violin, Polyphony and Choir Conducting, Harmony, Counterpoint, Music History Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid Violin Master Classes with Wladimiro Martín Violin studies (privately) with Angel Ortiz Valverde Choral Conducting studies with M. Carmen Ruiz-Simó and Pascual Ortega Grant for the XV Curso Internacional Manuel de Falla (Granada) Grant for the XXVII Curso de Música en Compostela (Santiago de Compostela) Curso de Dirección Coral Castillo de la Mota (Valladolid) Voice studies (private) with Ana María Iriarte Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid Musical Analysis Master Classes with Jacques Chailley 1987-1990 1989 1985 1988 1989 1978-1985 1982 1983-1985 1984 1984-1985 1985 Angel Gil-Ordóñez Page 7 OTHER STUDIES Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Ingeniero de Obras Públicas (Hidrología) 1975-1980 STUDY GRANTS Centre Acanthes (Paris) Banco de España Performing Arts Grant Ministerio Español de Cultura Performing Arts Grant 1985 1989 1990 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Research Grant at the Residencia de Estudiantes 1991-1993 OTHER TEACHING CONDUCTING: 1987-1992 Maestro Celibidache Conducting Class (Assistant): Courses in Munich (Munich Philharmonic), University of Mainz, SchleswigHolstein Orchesterakademie, France (Cluny), Italy (Scuola di Alto Perfezionamiento Musicale, Saluzzo) 1990 Choir Conducting Course at the National Conservatory in Madrid 1993, 1994 and 1995 Master Classes at the National Symphony Orchestra of Panama. 1997 Master Classes at the National Conservatory, Mexico City 2011 Master Classes at the National Conservatory, Perú CHAMBER MUSIC, CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA: 1988 and 1989 Académie Internationale du Languedoc (France) 1993, 1994 and 1995 National Conservatory (Honorary Professor since 1994) and Universidad Santa María la Antigua, Panama Angel Gil-Ordóñez Page 8 MEMBERSHIPS Since June 2006, Mr. Gil-Ordóñez is a member of the Cosmos Club Historic Preservation Foundation in Washington, DC. LANGUAGES Spanish, English, French, German, and Italian