2013

Jan 1, 2013

Makes Carnegie Hall main stage debut conducting Orchestra of St. Luke’s, a performance that prompted the New York Times to call Pablo “the thinking person’s idea of a hotshot young conductor.”; three-city tour (Dortmund, Essen, and Cologne) with Mahler Chamber Orchestra Academy; conducts world premiere of Peter Eötvös’s violin concerto DoReMi with Los Angeles Philharmonic and Midori; conducts West Coast premiere of Peter Eötvös’s opera Angels in America with Los Angeles Philharmonic; conducts West Coast premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Expo with San Francisco Symphony; makes Münchner Philharmoniker debut at Munich’s Postgaragen; profiled in Die Welt, German national daily newspaper

Debuts

Münchner Philharmoniker
Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, September 2013
Metropolitan Opera, November 2013
Philadephia Orchestra, December 2013
Carnegie Hall

Honors

Named Musical America’s 2014 Conductor of the Year
Named Honorary Ambassador of Granada by the city’s mayor José Torres Hurtado on June 26, 2013

Operatic Projects

Eötvös’s Angels in America at Los Angeles Philharmonic (West Coast Premiere)
Verdi’s Rigoletto at Deutsche Oper Berlin (New Production)
Verdi’s Les vêpres siciliennes at Frankfurt Opera, June 2013 (New Production)
Catán’s Il Postino at Teatro Real, Madrid, July 2013 (New Production)
Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera, November 2013

Recording Projects

Deutsche Grammophon’s Archiv Label announces partnership with Pablo, naming him an Archiv Ambassador. Planned projects include the label’s first recording of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice and an album that spotlights Farinelli.

Harmonia Mundi releases Schubert Symphonies 3 & 4 with Freiburger Barockorchester. Album is honored as “Choc de Classica.”