Josep Caballe-Domenech
music director
Josep Caballé Domenech is in his 12th season as Music Director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and has recently been appointed Principal Conductor of the Moritzburg Festival (Germany). Besides, former General Music Director of the Staatskapelle Halle (Germany) from 2013 to 2018, Music Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogotá (Colombia) during 2018 as well as principal guest conductor of the Norköping Symphony (Sweden) from 2005 to 2007. Caballé Domenech enjoys combining his conducting career with a great symphonic and operatic repertoire.
Caballé-Domenech has worked with prominent orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic, with which he recorded Respighi’s “Roman Trilogy” on Onyx Classics, BBC Philharmonic, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Hr-Sinfonieorchester, Bayerischen Rundfunk, Bamberg Symphony, WDR Sinfonieorchester, DSO Berlin, Dresden Festspielorchester, Czech Philharmonic, RSO Wien, Tonkünstler Symphony, Belgian National Symphony, Antwerp Symphony, LaVerdi Milano, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Orchestre National du Capitol de Toulouse, Spanish National Symphony, Barcelona Symphony, New Japan Philharmonic, and the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Houston, San Antonio and Fort Worth, among others. He is also frequently invited to international summer festivals such as Aspen, Texas, Chautauqua, Moritzburg and Granada.
Recognized for his work with operatic repertoire, Caballé-Domenech made his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and has conducted the company at the Savonlinna Festival and La Fenice in Venice. Caballé-Domenech has led new productions at the Staatsoper Berlin, Hamburg Staatsoper, State Opera Stuttgart, Dresden Semperoper, Theater an der Wien (with Plácido Domingo), Vienna’s Volksoper, Komische Oper, Essen Aalto Theater, Capitol du Toulouse, Theatre Royal du Versailles, San Carlo di Napoli, ABAO, Sao Carlos in Lisbon and Beijing National Opera.
Recent and future highlights include Wagner’s Ring, The Flying Dutchman, Aida, Tosca, Adriana Lecouvreur and Sweeney Todd at the Halle Opera; Fanciulla del West, Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana at the Hamburg Staatsoper; Salomé, Rosenkavalier and Wozzeck at Teatro Mayor in Bogotá; debuts at Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, at the Teatro Real in a concert with Bryn Terfel; appearances with Nuremberg Philharmonic, Dortmund Philharmonic, Tucson Symphony, Camera Musicae at the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, a collaboration with Lang Lang and the Orquesta del Palau de les Arts in Valencia, and a concert with Yo-Yo Ma in the 90th Anniversary Gala of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra.
Born in Barcelona into a family of musicians, Josep Caballé-Domenech studied piano, percussion, singing and violin. He took conducting lessons with David Zinman and Jorma Panula at the Aspen Music Festival, Sergiu Comissiona, and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He was awarded the Aspen Prize from the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen and selected as “Protégé” in the inaugural cycle of the Sir Colin Davis Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative 2002-03.
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Thomas Wilson
associate conductor
Thomas Wilson is Associate Conductor of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Music Director of the Chamber Orchestra of Colorado Springs, and serves on the music faculties at Colorado College, the Colorado Springs Conservatory, and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Wilson holds a bachelor’s degree in Music Education from the University of Northern Colorado, where he graduated summa cum laude and received the School of Music’s highest honor—the Departmental Scholar Award. He has a master’s degree in conducting from Colorado State University.
In addition to guest conducting, Wilson also freelances as an arranger and orchestrator for several studios and prominent solo artists. His compositions have been performed on four continents.
Wilson has long been an advocate for collaboration among arts groups, blending genres and mediums to create new possibilities and strengthen arts organizations. He is also a passionate advocate for music education and will be conducting the 2016 Colorado All-State Orchestra.
In recent years, Wilson has been researching, writing and presenting in-depth educational experiences for concertgoers. With cutting-edge scholarship, utilizing audiovisual content and bringing orchestras and actors into the mix, Wilson has led audiences to a deeper understanding of essential repertoire, including Mozart’s Requiem and Copland’s Appalachian Spring.
In his free time, Wilson seeks joy in family, friends, and fitness. He is a voracious reader, a chess player, and an animal advocate who is always happiest in Monument Valley Park with his two nefarious hounds.
