Direction and guest artists

Isabel Rubio, director

Conductor of the Murcian Orchestra, currently Associate Conductor of the Vigo 430 Orchestra and the Granada Youth Symphony Orchestra. Recently, she was a finalist in the competition for the position of assistant conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Kirill Petrenko.

Winner of the 1st Orchestra Conducting Competition in Aspe, the 1st International Conducting Competition City of Villena and winner of the 1st Orchestral Conducting Meetings in Bilbao. She has been selected to participate in several conducting competitions in France, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy, where she was a semi-finalist in the Guido Cantelli International Competition.

Previously, she was assistant conductor of the Valencia Orchestra and assistant to Lucas Macías at the National Youth Orchestra of Spain. She has been assistant conductor of different opera productions such as Gat Montés at the Campoamor Theater in Oviedo within the Spanish Lyric Theater Festival.

Isabel Rubio

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Isabel Rubio directing

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She has conducted the Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra, Valencia Orchestra, Murcia Region Symphony Orchestra, Oviedo Filarmonia Orchestra, Menorca Island Chamber Orchestra, Valencian Community Federal Orchestra, Castellón Youth Orchestra, Valencian Orfeón, Sine Tempore Chamber Orchestra and the professional bands of Madrid, Bilbao, Alicante, Pontevedra, Santiago de Compostela and Vitoria. She served as Principal Conductor of the Sant Pere del Pinatar and Santomera Bands in Murcia, and the Lalín Band in Pontevedra. She was a member of the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chapelle Musicale de Tournai in Belgium, and the Murcia Region Symphony Orchestra.

She conducts festivals such as the Pärnu Music Festival in Estonia, the International Festival of Religious Music Week in Cuenca, the Lugo Organ Festival, the Composition Meetings of the Valencia Orchestra, the Ourearte Music Fest in Portugal, the CullerArts International Violin Competition and the Malaga International Film Music Festival.

This year she has been appointed as the principal conductor of the Jove Orquestra de les Comarques Gironas until 2027.