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Committed to the music

Josep Pons - Director

“I experience music as truth, in each concert I experience an intimate emotion.”

With this deep commitment, Josep Pons has directed the Gran Teatre del Liceu since 2012, where he has made a career marked by passion and excellence. Over these years, he has promoted a refreshing take on the great repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries, consolidating an artistic vision that thrills and transforms.

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Upcoming concerts

Immerse yourself in Josep Pons’ discography: a musical journey that transcends, inspiring emotions and revealing the greatness of his musical vision.

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November 7, 2025

JOHN DOWLAND: Lachrymae Antiquae 

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 61 – Frank Peter Zimmermann

JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU : Suite from Dardanus

MAURICE RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin 

Deutsche Radio Philharmonie
Congresshalle, Saarbrücken
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November 8, 2025

JOHN DOWLAND: Lachrymae Antiquae 

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 61 – Frank Peter Zimmermann

JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU : Suite from Dardanus

MAURICE RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin 

Deutsche Radio Philharmonie
Forum am Schlosspark, Ludwigsburg
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December 4, 2025

RICHARD WAGNER: Ring without words

Orquestra de València
Sala Iturbi, València
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December 14, 2025

JOHANN STRAUSS JR: Kaiserwalzer

ALBAN BERG: Sieben frühe Lieder

GUSTAV MAHLER: Des Knaben Wunderhorn

FRANZ LEHÁR: Die lustige Witwe

Katharina Konradi, Sopran / Bo Skovhus, Baritone

Deutsche Radio Philharmonie
Congresshalle, Saarbrücken
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January 1, 2026

JOHANNES BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances, No.1 in G minor, No. 3 in F major

ANTONIN DVORAK: Slavonic Dances, Op.72

ZOLTÁN KODÁLY: Dances of Galanta

BORODIN arr BABIN: Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutracker)

GIUSEPPE VERDI: Macbeth

ALBERTO GINASTERA: Estancia, Op. 8A.

Deutsche Radio Philharmonie
Rheingoldhalle, Mainz
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Discography

Immerse yourself in Josep Pons’ discography: a musical journey that transcends, inspiring emotions and revealing the greatness of his musical vision.

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La música de Picasso

¡Nuevo Tango! – Astor Piazzolla

Goyescas de Granados

Concerto en sol, Le Tombeau de Couperin & Alborada del gracioso

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Reviews

“Here, Josep Pons makes a kind of symphonic summary of the score, tackling the key moments of this human tragedy. He deftly mixes the purely orchestral passages and those in which the vocal interventions are to a great extent supported by a very active orchestra… Josep Pons’ musical direction enthusiastically emphasizes the epic work in a display of orchestral dynamics, from the most delicate pianissimos to the tragic fortissimos.”

Classic Toulouse

January 2016

“During the whole concert, Josep Pons is as usual very efficient, the gesture is precise and the orchestra responds perfectly.”

Classique info

“Pons began the programme with a vital and warmhearted account of Stravinsky’s Scherzo à la Russe, and created an immaculately textured underlay for Frank Peter Zimmermann’s lyrically rhapsodic approach to the Brahms Violin Concerto…”

The Guardian

Georges Hall

August 2013

“Pons is not used to working with the SCO, and Falla is not a composer with whom they have worked very often; but exciting results can come from such circumstances, and so it proved tonight with an exciting, throbbing performance of both works that pulsed with Latin life and gleamed with Mediterranean sunlight.”

Seen and Heard International

Simon Thompson

December 2014

“In this superbly well executed performance, the BBCSO of smaller size showed what a first-class orchestra is. A great merit in this sense belongs to Josep Pons.”

Classical Source

Parsifal at the Teatre del Liceu “A transparent, meticulous and clarifying vision of the inexhaustible background of the score.”

Beckmesser

June 2023

“[…] The idiomatic baton of the Spanish maestro Josep Pons conjured an air of authenticity. His opening gambit, the brooding Interlude and sizzling Dance from Manuel de Falla’s unfairly neglected opera La Vida Breve, displayed an instinct for subtle grace and building dramatic tension.”

The Guardian

Clive Paget

July 2023

“Josep Pons duly brought out the drama of the initial pages of de Falla’s La Vida Breve, before heading into a rendition of the main section such as (rightly) predicated suavity over rhetoric, while not lacking for impetus as this music reached its effervescent close”

Arcana

Richard Whitehouse

July 2023

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