Robert Trevino

Robert Trevino has rapidly emerged as one of the most exciting American conductors performing today, one of the most in-demand talents of the younger generation.

He is immensely proud to have been named the incoming Music Director of the Basque National Orchestra.

Trevino burst into the international spotlight at the Bolshoi Theater in December 2013, leading a new production of Verdi's "Don Carlo". He was nominated for a Golden Mask award, and one reviewer wrote, "There has not been an American success of this magnitude in Moscow since Van Cliburn".

He caught the eye of David Zinman, with whom he studied as a Conducting Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and was awarded the James Conlon Prize. Immediately afterwards, in 2011, James Levine invited Trevino to be the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood. He was also invited to study with Michael Tilson Thomas, and to assist Leif Segerstam at the Helsinki Philharmonic.

Trevino has served as Associate Conductor at the Cincinnatti Symphony Orchestra (2011-2015) and, prior to that, as Associate Conductor to New York City Opera at Lincoln Center (2009-2011).

Recent seasons have seen an ever-growing number of major debuts -among them the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestre Nationale de France, St Petersburg Philharmonic and many others.

Immediate reinvitations have frequently followed his debuts - the Orchestra Philharmonique de Monte Carlo even invited him to extensively tour Europe and Asia, including inaugurating the new hall, Opera di Firenze of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino- and his performances are regularly broadcast, including a special profile feature on the Arte Channel.

Coming seasons will bring him to the Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, HR Sinfonieorchester, Tonkuenstler Vienna, MDR Leipzig, Maggio Musicale Florentino, Helsinki Philharmonic, Bournemouth & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras as well as opera productions at the Washington National Opera.