GONZALO HIDALGO

CONDUCTOR AND SOLOIST

 

His name is written among the new promises of conducting from the renowned Venezuelan social and musical program, known as El Sistema. Gonzalo Hidalgo has been leading the most important youth and professional orchestras in Venezuela for the last seven years. From the conducting school of Eduardo Marturet and Teresa Hernandez, his current teacher, Gonzalo has assumed with enthusiasm and confidence, programs that include works by Wagner, Ravel, Debussy, Rimski-Korsakov, Beethoven, Fauré, Shostakovich, Mahler, Brahms, Mozart, Verdi, Weber, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Márquez, Ginastera, Carreño, Estévez, Villa - Lobos, Moncayo and Tchaikovsky, among other repertoires.

 

As the first bassoonist of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, directed by maestro Gustavo Dudamel, Gonzalo Hidalgo has also prepared himself as a soloist.  His repertoire includes works by Mozart, Weber, Telemann, Jolivet, Jacob, Vivaldi, Boutry, Bitsch, among others. Gonzalo has been under the baton of Eduardo Marturet, Alfredo Rugeles, Dudamel and the maestro Claudio Abbado, with whom he made the Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He is currently perfectioning his work with the first bassoonist of the Berlin Philharmonic, Stefan Schweigert.

 

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