Borja Quintas

The prolific conductor Borja Quintas has developed his career in the most diverse projects and places, his two most active countries being Russia and Spain. He has performed in most European capitals and in the Middle East in countries such as Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan, conducting some of the best orchestras in the world, such as the London Symphony Orchestra and the New Russia Symphony Orchestra.

He has always combined the symphonic and lyrical worlds, and cultivated different genres such as theatre, flamenco, sacred drama and audiovisual media. He has collaborated with artists as diverse as Roque Baños, Kuzma Bodrov, Dmitry Krymov, Lucas Vidal, Lucero Tena, Valery Sokolov or Ara Malikian and has had the honour of accompanying the most acclaimed voices on the international scene, such as Plácido Domingo, Javier Camarena, María Bayo or Ainhoa Arteta, among many others. He has also made an important immersion in the music of the 20th and 21st centuries with recordings for labels such as Naxos.

Strongly committed to young symphonic groups as a driving force for artistic and social change, he is currently Artistic Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica, Coro y Escolanía JMJ, the Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de Navarra, the Orquestas Sinfónica y Filarmónica del CSMA and the Orquesta Sinfónica UCAM. He has also conducted the Russkaya Opera Theatre in Moscow, the Children’s Choir of the Community of Madrid and the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Soria.

He also teaches as Professor of Orchestra Conducting at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón and as Academic Director of the Master’s Degree in Conducting at the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska, with dozens of students of great current projection.

With scholarships from various entities such as the Barrié de la Maza Foundation, he trained entirely as a conductor at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Professor Vladimir Ponkin, obtaining the Red Diploma of excellence.