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Josep Pons - Conductor

“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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August 26, 2026

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Rapsodie espagnole
Piano Concerto in G major
Alborada del gracioso
Boléro

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Suite No. 2 (The Three-Cornered Hat)

Bertrand Chamayou, piano

Orchestre National Capitole de Toulouse
Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
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August 30, 2026

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Roman Carnival
Symphonie fantastique

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826), arranged by Hector Berlioz
Invitation to the Dance

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Suite No. 2 from The Three-Cornered Hat

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Alborada del gracioso
Boléro

Orchestre National Capitole de Toulouse
La Côte-Saint-André
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September 6, 2026

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Piano Concerto in G major
Daphnis et Chloé, Suites Nos. 1 and 2

Javier Perianes, piano

Deutsche Radio Philharmonie
Congresshalle, Saarbrücken
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September 25, 2026

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Scenes from Goethe’s Faust: Overture

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Mephisto Waltz No. 1

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
A Faust Overture, WWV 59

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Hungarian March from La damnation de Faust, Op. 24

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Don Quixote, Op. 35

Deutsche Radio Philharmonie
Congresshalle, Saarbrücken
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October 9 i 10, 2026

Nino Rota (1911-1979)
The Leopard, Dances
Divertimento for Double Bass and Orchestra
La strada, Ballet Suite

Joaquín Arrabal, double bass

Orquesta Ciudad de Granada
Auditorio Manuel de Falla, Granada
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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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Jeux de miroirs

Berio Sinfonia

Goyescas

Sacre · Pétrouchka

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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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