2012

Nomination for a Dora Mavor Moore Awards of the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) in the category of “Outstanding Musical Direction” for Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, Canadian Opera Company; Crain’s New York Business names Pablo Heras-Casado one of the “40 Under Forty” who are pioneers in business and nonprofits; Named one of the “100 Most Powerful New Yorkers” by Gotham Magazine; Included in the “Best of 2012” list of the most noteworthy cultural personalities by Neue Zürcher Zeitung; Tours with Freiburger Barockorchester to Lisbon, St. Pölten, Freiburg, Stuttgart, Berlin, New York; ARTE broadcasts the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden prduction of L’elisir d’amore, December 24

Debuts

Balthasar Neumann Ensemble
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Freiburger Barockorchester
Göteborgs Symfoniker
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
New World Symphony
Staatskapelle Berlin
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Salzburg Festival
Lucerne Festival
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Orchestra della Academia Santa Cecilia Roma
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Honors

Awarded Gold Medal of Merit by Council of Granada
Honored with Medal of Honor by the Fundación Rodríguez-Acosta for his distinguished career as a conductor and its international projection
Receives award from Spanish newspaper IDEAL for promoting the region of Granada throughout the world
Named one of the “40 Under Forty” who are pioneers in business and nonprofits by Crain’s New York Business
Named one of the top five conductors under 40 by the Canadian Broadcast Corporation
Named one of the “100 Most Powerful New Yorkers” by Gotham Magazine

Operatic projects

Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Bizet’s Carmen at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

Recording Projects

harmonia mundi announces recording partnership, beginning with Schubert’s Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 with the Freiburger Barockorchester to be followed by Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2 with Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks