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update 11/05

Maestro Alberto Hold-Garrido was born in Barcelona and raised in Denmark. He studied choral and orchestral conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen between 1988-91, and continued his studies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in the legendary conducting class of Jorma Panula between 1991-94. He also took classes with Sergiu Celibidache in Mainz, Germany. From 2001 to 2003 he served as Music Director and Principal Conductor at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm.

After his graduation in 1994, conducting Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte in collaboration with the Sibelius Academy opera school, Alberto Hold-Garrido started working as assistant conductor at the Finnish National Opera. He conducted Verdi’s I due Foscari, Salome, Traviata and Il Barbiere di Siviglia. During this time he worked in closely with the stage directors August Everding, Götz Friedrich and Gian Carlo del Monaco. In the summers of 1996 and 1997, he assisted Leif Segerstam in the production of Tannhäuser at the Savonlinna Opera Festival.
Previous to his nomination as Music Director, he already directed a large number of productions in Stockholm, among them Norma, Fliegende Holländer, Rheingold, Otello, Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci, Carmen, Carmina Burana, Lustige Weiber von Windsor, The Barber of Seville and Don Carlos In January 1998 he lead a triumphant performance of Norma with Metropolitan singer Marina Mescheriakova as Norma at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as part of the Royal Swedish Opera’s tour.
In the summer of 2001, Mr. Hold-Garrido conducted Verdi’s Aida at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and Verdi’s Macbeth at the Dalhalla Festival in Sweden. In fall 2001 he toured with the Welsh National Opera with La Traviata and made his debut with the same work at the Frankfurt Opera. In 2002 he directed the new productions of Puccini’s La Rondine in Helsinki and Wagner’s Tannhäuser in Stockholm. He then returned to Savonlinna Opera Festival reviving Rigoletto and took the production on tour to Scandinavia, featuring Dimitri Hvorostovsky. In 2003 he toured with the Savonlinna’s Macbeth production to Santiago de Chile.
Highlights of the 03/04 season include a new production of Verdi’s Il Trovatore at the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff, Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore in Stockholm, and Bellini’s Norma, staged by Renata Scotto, at the Finnish National Opera. In summer 2005 Maestro Hold-Garrido returned to Savonlinna with Aida, to Stockholm with L’elisire and conducted Tosca at the Hedeland Festival in Denmark. In the season 2005/06 he returned to the Finnish National Opera with Norma, Salome and André Chenier directed by Giancarlo del Monaco. In this season he will also conduct Norma in St Gallen, Switzerland and a symphony concert with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz in Germany.

Before ending up to the opera-field, Mr. Hold-Garrido worked with many symphony orchestras in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Italy and Spain. His symphonic repertoire encompasses works from Bach till Henze, with preference on the classical-romantic and the late-romantic repertoire, as well as impressionism and expressionism.
 

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