ORQUESTA SINFÓNICA DE VALENCIA
The Orquesta Sinfónica de Valencia OSV [Valencia Symphony Orchestra] was created on February 16, 1916. Its first Music Director was Arturo Saco del Valle, who conducted it until 1925, the year in which José Manuel Izquierdo replaced him. In the course of his musical life, the OSV has been conducted by renowned musicians such as Maurice Ravel, Alexander Glazunov, Heinz Unger and the Spaniards Enrique Fdez. Arbós, Bartolomé Pérez-Casas, José Lasalle and Enrique Granados, collaborating with soloists such as Artur Rubinstein, Fritz Kreisler , José Iturbi, etc.
After a period of renewal, the Valencia Symphony Orchestra returned to Valencian musical life in 1991, with the same foundational goals: a private orchestra, with a stable season dedicated mainly to the preservation and diffusion of the classical repertoire, support for Spanish music and musicians and to the creation of new audiences.
The OSV has collaborated in the programming of the Palau de la Música de Valencia - Festival Puccini-, was a resident orchestra of the lyrical season of the Teatro Principal de Valencia- Teatres de la Generalitat Valenciana-. In his last seasons he has participated in his programming of with the titles: Lucia di Lamermour, Tosca, Don Giovanni, Cosí fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, Turandot, Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, among other titles and also as ballet orchestra with tittles as Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker or ‘Lacrimosa Dies Illa’ a ballet with music from the W. A. Mozart’s Requiem.
Outstanding interventions in recent years are: interpretation and recording the Concierto de Aranjuez by maestro Joaquín Rodrigo for the National Ballet of Spain at the Teatro Principal in Valencia, Spanish representative at the World Expo in Hannover (Germany), the participation in the Eclèctic Festival held in the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia or the collaboration with the Nusantara Symphony Orchestra in a concert/recording held in Jakarta (Indonesia) to benefit the victims of the tsunami that hit this country.
The Valencia Symphony Orchestra has been conducted in this new stage by conductors among others such as: Manuel Galduf (Musical Director 1991-1993), Niholas Cleobury, Ernest Martínez Izquierdo, Bertrand de Billy, Pedro Halffter, Antonello Allemandi, Laurent Pillot, Mark Gibson, Randall Behr, Enrique García Asensio, Álvaro Albiach, Tiziano Severini, Marco Guidarini; also outstanding soloists such as: Alicia de la Rocha, Teresa Berganza, Agustín León Ara, Annello Desiderio, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Vladimir Popov, Joan Pons, Lucía Aliberti, Bolko Zvetanov, Francisco Valls, Georg Vassillev, Maurice André, Nelly Miricioiu, David Rendall, Vsvolod Grivnov, Silvano Carrolli, Giovanna Casolla, Kristian Johannsson, Isabelle Kabatu, Paolo Barbacini, Elena de la Merced, Ángela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Juan Diego Flórez, etc.
Joan Cerveró is currently the Musical Director of the OSV.
‘Ritual Fire Dance’ & ‘Sortilege’, Live-recorgding of ‘Gala Concert Tribute Manuel de Falla’,
Orquesta Sinfónica de Valencia,
Carmen Linares, cantaora.
Joan Cerveró, Conductor.
Video Direction and Lighting Designer, Lorenzo Cutúli
ECLÉCTIC | International Festival at the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias de Valencia (Spain), 2003