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‘Conducting is the result of synergies inwhich the artists develop relationships and emotions
suggested by the music. It is of primordial importance to balance the naturalness and
unbalance dialogues and the plurality of ideas in the same élan.’
Alejandro Garrido Porras was born in Seville in 1976. He began his musical studies there before
entering the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he trained in the
class of Bruno Pasquier (viola), then that of Christophe Coin (Baroque cello) in the postgraduate
cycle. He then went on to further viola study in Tabea Zimmermann’s class in Frankfurt.
He had the opportunity to study conductingwithDaniel Harding (Mahler Chamber Orchestra),
Sir Colin Davis (Bandart Orchesra) and Claudio Abbado (Lucerne Festival Orchestra).
His relationship with art is based on a social compromise that has led him to take part in the
projects of the SaludArte Foundation, based in Miami, Caracas and Madrid. Since 2003 the
foundation has organised artistic, educational and social programmes in Venezuela with,
notably, the participation of the NewWorld Symphony.
Alejandro Garrido has been musical and artistic director of the Orchestra of the Deià Festival
(Mallorca) and the Joven Orquesta del Bicentenario. He has also appeared regularly as a
conductor withThe London Soloists, the JovenOrquesta Nacional de España and the Orquesta
Sinfónica de Castilla y León, with which he has accompanied such soloists as Gordan Nikolić,
Christophe Coin, Javier Perianes and Nicolas Dautricourt.
Thanks to his interest inmusic played on period instruments and gut strings,Alejandro Garrido
has developed a symphonic compromise between Baroque, Classical and modern-style
performance.
He also conducts interdisciplinary spectacles with Andrés Marín’s flamenco dance company.
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