Robert Trevino

The 2024/25 season will see Robert Treviño make debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Tokyo, while there will be welcome returns to regular collaborators including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestra della Svizzeria Italiana, Osaka Philharmonic and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

Other orchestras Robert Treviño has conducted include the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Münchner Philharmoniker, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Dresdner Philharmonie, SWR Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, NDR Hannover, Gürzenich Orchester Köln, MDR-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Bamberger Symphoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, Filarmonica della Scala and Helsinki Philharmonic. He has also conducted a wide variety of orchestras in North America – among them the symphony orchestras of Cleveland, Baltimore, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Utah, Toronto and Detroit. Further afield he has conducted leading ensembles such as the São Paulo Symphony, NHK Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic, Osaka Philharmonic, China Philharmonic, Russian National Orchestra and St Petersburg Philharmonic. He has led orchestras at many leading festivals, among them Mahler Festival Leipzig, Milan Mahler Festival, Enescu Festival, Puccini Festival and Interlochen Festival. Treviño’s opera work has included productions at Opernhaus Zurich, La Fenice and Washington National Opera.

His recording contract with Ondine has resulted in a widely-praised complete Beethoven symphonies cycle, two much-acclaimed Ravel albums, a Rautavaara album, Respighi’s Roman Trilogy, and “Americascapes” (‘Best Recording of 2021’ – Presto Music, Gramophone Award-shortlisted). Additionally, a cycle of Bruch symphonies with the Bamberger Symphoniker was released by CPO, to universally positive reviews. Between them, Robert Treviño’s recordings have garnered more than 15 accolades from respected reviews publications around the world.

Treviño burst into the international spotlight at the Bolshoi Theater in December 2013, leading a new production of Verdi’s Don Carlo at short notice. The Russian press wrote, “There has not been an American success of this magnitude in Moscow since Van Cliburn.” He was subsequently nominated for a Golden Mask award for “Best Conductor in a New Production”.

Robert Treviño has commissioned, premiered and worked closely with many leading composers, among them John Adams, Philip Glass, Sofia Gubaidulina, George Walker, Jennifer Higdon, Andre Previn, Augusta Read Thomas, Shulamit Ran, Ramon Lazkano and John Zorn.