Treviño conducts Wagner & Tchaikovsky

A car trip can lead to many places. It was Mozart's Requiem on a car radio that lit a spark. Mexican-American Robert Treviño was driving with his father, who was tuning into a classical music radio channel, and then he knew what the meaning of life was, so to speak: He wanted to be a conductor. He was only 8 years old then. He was not from a musical family, and it was only as a teenager that he could begin actual music lessons. Then he threw himself into the bassoon and several other instruments to get a feel for what an orchestra is. Robert Treviño was educated in the USA, but had his professional debut as a conductor in Germany when he was just 20. Since then he has been associated with orchestras both in the USA and Europe, from Malmö in Sweden, where he, among other things, recorded Beethoven's symphonies with the orchestra, to the Basque Country in northern Spain, where he is head of the Basque National Orchestra, with whom he has both recorded Ravel and rarely heard American works - he ranges widely. Wagner and Tchaikovsky are what he is excited about in South Jutland – music about love and its conflicts. Love songs, and a symphony from Tchaikovsky's divided mind.

Program:

R. Wagner: Overture to The master singers of Nuremberg
R. Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder
PI Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

Conducter

Robert Trevino

Soloist:

Justina Gringyte, mezzo-soprano