The RTVE Symphony Orchestra (''Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española''), also known as the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra is a Spanish
radio orchestra
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servicing
RTVE
The Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española, S.A. (; ), known as Radiotelevisión Española or RTVE, is the state-owned public corporation that assumed in 2007 the indirect management of the Spanish public radio and television service know ...
, the Spanish national broadcasting network.
The Orchestra is based at the
Teatro Monumental
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in
Madrid
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, Spain.
Conductors
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Pablo González (2019–)
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Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez
Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez (born 1949 in Granada, Spain
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(2016–2019)
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Carlos Kalmar
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Biography
Kalmar began violin studies at age six. At age fifteen, he enrolled at the Vienna Academy of Music where his conducting teacher was Karl ...
(2011–2016)
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Adrian Leaper
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Biography
Leaper studied horn and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music and for eight years was co-principal horn of the Philharmonia Orchestra. He was Principal Conductor of the ''Orquesta ...
(2001–2010)
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Enrique García Asensio
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(1998–2001)
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Sergiu Comissiona
Sergiu Comissiona (June 16, 1928 – March 5, 2005) was a Romanian-Israeli-American conductor and violinist.
Biography
Early life
Born in Bucharest, Romania in a Jewish family, he began violin studies at the age of five, was hired as a violin ...
(1990–1998)
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Arpad Joó
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Early life
Maestro Joó (pronounced: Yo) was born in Budapest in 1948. His grandmother was an eminent pupil of István Thomán, at the Franz Lis ...
(1988–1990)
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Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez
Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez (born 1949 in Granada, Spain
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(1984–1987)
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Odón Alonso
Odón Alonso Ordás (28 February 1925 – 21 February 2011) was a Spanish conductor and composer, best known for his film scores.
Alonso was born at La Bañeza, León, Spain. He studied in Madrid, Siena, Salzburg and Vienna. His first engage ...
(1968–1984)
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Enrique García Asensio
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The Madrid Royal Conservatory ( es, Real Conservator ...
(1965–1984)
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(1965–1967)
Principal guest conductors
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Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez
Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez (born 1949 in Granada, Spain
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(1988–1991)
* David Shallon (1997–1999)
See also
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Community of Madrid Orchestra
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Madrid Symphony Orchestra
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Spanish National Orchestra The Orquesta Nacional de España (Spanish National Orchestra) is a symphonic orchestra that is based in Madrid, Spain.
History
Although the orchestra originated as of 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, it was legally founded in 1940, by the mergin ...
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Queen Sofía Chamber Orchestra
The Queen Sofía Chamber Orchestra ( Orquesta de Cámara Reina Sofía in Spanish), founded in 1984, is a professional chamber orchestra based in Madrid, Spain.
History
The Orchestra’s first performance took place at the Teatro Real in 1984 ...
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Teatro Real
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National Auditorium of Music
The Auditorio Nacional de Música (''National Auditorium of Music'') is a complex of concert venues located in Madrid, Spain and the main concert hall in the Madrid metropolitan area. It comprises two main concert rooms: a symphonic hall and a cham ...
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Teatro Monumental
The Teatro Monumental (Monumental Theatre) is a concert hall in Madrid. The theatre, designed by Teodoro Anasagasti Algan, was built between 1922 and 1923 as a movie theatre (''Teatro Cinema Monumental'') and later was transformed to house concer ...
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References
External links
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