Lina González-Granados made her Hollywood Bowl debut on August 11th, leading the LA Philharmonic in a program that included Nina Shenkar’s “Lumina”, the arrangement of Paganini’s “Sonata per la Grand Viola” and Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade”. 

 

Los Angeles Times said:  

 

Conductor Lina González-Granados makes a big splash in the big outdoors in her Bowl debut 

“González-Granados, in fact, seemed already right at home at the Bowl.” 

 

“Her Scheherazade…was Solti-like.” “…this “Scheherazade” came on

strong and pretty much stayed that way.” 

 

“González-Granados made it simply a show of raw power, an aural force to glue you to your seat (or bench).” 

 

Full review HERE 

 

Appointed Resident Conductor by the LA Opera, post to be held thru June 2025, Lina González-Granados will open their 2022-23 season leading the production of Lucia de Lammermoor. 

 

Last June, she stepped in for Maestro Riccardo Muti, conducting the Chicago Symphony (barely without rehearsal) in a program featuring Beethoven Violin Concerto, with Anne-Sophie Mutter as soloist, and Brahms Symphony No.1 in the second half, receiving rave reviews from the critics. 

 

Lina was the winner of the Fourth Chicago Symphony Orchestra Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition, and became the new Solti Conducting Apprentice under the guidance of Maestro Riccardo Muti, from February 2020 and continuing through June 2023. She has also held positions as Conducting Fellow of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Seattle Symphony. 

 

Her spirited interpretations of the orchestral repertoire, as well as her dedication to highlighting new and unknown works by Latin-American composers, have earned her international recognition, most recently as the recipient of the 2021 Sphinx Medal of Excellence, the Third Prize and ECHO Special Award of La Maestra Competition, and the 2020 and 2021 Solti Foundation US Career Assistance Award. 

 

Her 2021-22 season highlights included her debut with the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony (USA), Houston Symphony, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Barcelona Symphony, Nürnberger Symphoniker, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Kristiansand Symphony, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Polish National Radio Symphony, Orquesta del Principado de Asturias, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León and Tenerife Symphony. 

She also led the production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Dallas Opera. 

 

The current 2022-23 season will see her return to the Seattle Symphony, and bring debuts with the Orchestre Metropolitain, NACO, Indianapolis Symphony, Sarasota Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Pasadena Symphony, Philadelphia Opera, Borusan Philharmonic, Aalborg Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia, as well as performances at Caramoor and Grafenegg Festivals.  

 

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