Spanish conductor Pablo González is a highly articulate and intelligent musician with an intense musicality and an assured technique, resulting in concerts that are full of character and great artistic integrity. In September 2010 he took up the position of Music Director of Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya.

In addition to his commitments in Barcelona, including recordings as well as a full subscription series, Pablo appears as a guest throughout the world, frequently receiving immediate reinvitations, such as the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Netherlands Philharmonic and many more. Recently Pablo González made acclaimed debuts with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Japan and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

With Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern he has recorded two CDs, the first being a disc of works by Schumann for Hänssler Classics and the winner of a 2011 International Classical Music Award.

Also active in opera, in autumn 2013 Pablo makes his UK operatic debut conducting L’elisir d’amore for Glyndebourne on Tour. In addition, his operatic work sees several appearances at Teatro del Liceu Barcelona, San Sebastian and Opera de Oviedo.

Soloists with whom González has appeared include Anne-Sophie Mutter, Maxim Vengerov, Truls Mørk, Nicola Benedetti, Renaud Capuçon, Viviane Hagner, Viktoria Mullova, Alban Gerhardt and many more.

Born in 1975 in Oviedo, Pablo studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. A previous winner of the Donatella Flick Competition, he has held the positions of Associate Conductor with both the London Symphony Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.He was also the winner of the Eighth Cadaqués International Conducting Competition in 2006.

From Ireland, Paul McNamara is an honours music graduate of University College, Cork. He has been the recipient of many prizes and awards, including the Opera scholarship of the Royal College of Music in London and the Bayreuth Bursary of the British Wagner Society.

Currently based in Berlin, he has sung in several German theatres where his many notable successes have included his critically acclaimed début at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in Braunfels’ ›Szenen aus dem Leben der heiligen Johanna‹ and the title roles in Wagner’s ›Tannhäuser & Parsifal‹ at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, for both of which he was nominated as ›Singer of the Year‹ in the German magazine ›Opernwelt‹.

In addition to numerous Wagner-roles Paul McNamara’s extensive repertoire encompasses roles in operas from Mozart, Weber, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Rimsky-Korsakov, Janácek, Leoncavallo, Richard Strauss, Berg, Britten and many more. Also a keen recitalist and concert singer, in December 2001 he made his début at the Berlin Philharmonie singing Finzi’s cantata Dies Natalis with the Deutsches Kammerorchester. Other concert engagements include appearances with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the SWR-Rundfunkorchester, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the American Symphony Orchestra or the dutch Radio Filharmonisch Orkest.

Recently he gave his debut as ›Giovanni‹ in Max von Schillings Mona Lisa at the Carnegie Hall in New York.

German-born mezzo-soprano Eva Vogel studied at Mannes College of Music in New York and at Yale University in the US. Privately she worked with Christa Ludwig and Brigitte Fassbaender. Having completed her studies in the USA, Eva Vogel became a member of the opera studio at Cologne Opera fort wo years, before being engaged as a permanent soloist at Düsseldorf Opera as well as Innsbruck Opera, where she was able to extend her wide repertoire with roles such as Orfeo (Gluck), Ramiro (La Finta Giardiniera), Goffredo (Rinaldo) Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana), Cherubino (Nozze di Figaro), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Oktavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Flora (La Traviata) and Carmen.
Ms Vogel became a sought-after guest soloist throughout Europe and made appearances with houses such as the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Staatstheater Nuremberg, Theater Bremen and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. The mezzo-soprano could be heard in various Wagner parts at festivals such as Aix-en-Provence festival and the Salzburg Easter Festival. Eva Vogel has worked with renowned conductors such as John Eliot Gardiner, Pietari Inkinen, Axel Kober, Jonathan Nott, Ingo Metzmacher, Simon Rattle and Edo de Waart.
Equally at home on the concert stage, Eva Vogel has appeared in numerous symphony concerts and recitals, for example at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Palais des Beaux Arts Brüssel, Philharmonie Berlin, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Philharmonie Essen, Auditorium Milan, as well as New York, Alabama, Winnipeg and Seoul.