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Rubén Dubrovsky, Artistic director

Rubén Dubrovsky, born in Buenos Aires into a Polish-Italian family of artists, now lives in Vienna. As co-founder and artistic director of the Bach Consort Wien, founded in 1999, he regularly conducts at renowned venues such as the Vienna Musikverein, Theater an der Wien, Bolshoi Theatre, Brucknerhaus Linz, Mozartwoche Salzburg and the Handel Festival Halle.

From 2016 to 2023, Dubrovsky conducted the Chicago-based Third Coast Baroque. Since September 2023, he has been chief conductor at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich. He is also co-founder and artistic director of the festivals Baroque and Beyond in Chicago and Festival Hohe Tauern in Austria, which explore and live the boundaries between classical and traditional music.

His operatic work focuses on the stage works of George Frideric Handel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His productions include Handel's "Giulio Cesare", "Rinaldo", "Mitridate" and Mozart's "Idomeneo", "La Clemenza di Tito", "Le nozze di Figaro" and "Die Zauberflöte". Other highlights include the premiere of Monteverdi's "L'incoronazione di Poppea" at the Semperoper Dresden, the Moscow premiere of Handel's "Rinaldo" at the Bolshoi Theater and the opening of the Martín y Soler Hall at the Palau de Les Arts Valencia with "L'arbore di Diana". He has also conducted works by Scarlatti, Lully, Vivaldi, Gluck, Rossini and Stravinsky.

His symphonic repertoire ranges from the 18th to the 21st century with composers such as Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Ravel, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Pärt and Strasnoy. As a guest conductor, he has conducted the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Bach Ensemble and numerous opera houses in Leipzig, Bonn, Cologne, Mannheim, Dresden, Kiel, Darmstadt, Hanover, Karlsruhe, Sankt Gallen, Munich, Schwetzingen and Vienna.

Dubrovsky's passionate exploration of Latin American music and its connections to European Baroque music culminated in the 2015 television production "Bach to the Roots" and the CD "Vidala" (Gramola), which was nominated in two categories for the German Record Critics' Award.

In the 2024/25 season, he will conduct the operas "Carmen", "Alcina", "Tosca" and "Don Giovanni" at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Handel's "The Triumph of Time and Truth" at the Theater an der Wien and "Orlando" and "Giulio Cesare" in Cologne, among others. He also conducts concerts at the Vienna Musikverein with the Bach Consort Wien and a symphony concert series at the Gärtnerplatztheater.

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