LuisToro Araya
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General management with Askonas Holt
Partner manager:
Ibermusica: Spain, Portugal and Latin America
About Luis
Chief Conductor of Universidad de Concepción Symphony Orchestra
Luis Toro Araya was recently appointed Chief Conductor of Universidad de Concepción Symphony Orchestra from March 2025.
This season, the Chilean conductor continues to attract international attention, making debuts with Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and Orchestre de Picardie. He also maintains a close relationship with Orquesta Nacional de España returning for a programme including Mahler.
The 2023/24 season saw Chilean conductor, Luis Toro Araya make debuts with Dresdner Philharmonie, Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal, Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española and Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago, as well as return to Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias. Luis was a 2022/23 Los Angeles Dudamel Fellow, making his debut with the orchestra that season.
Other recent highlights include concerts with Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege, Staatsorchester Braunschweig, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Camerata Salzburg, Berner Symphonieorchester, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Filharmonie Hradec Králové and Olten Filarmoni of Izmir.
Representation
General management with Askonas Holt
Partner manager:
Ibermusica: Spain, Portugal and Latin America
Season Highlights
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Luis Toro Araya | Finals with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra | ICCR 2022
Credit: International Conducting Competition Rotterdam
PlayingLuis Toro Araya | Opera Round with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra | ICCR 2022
Credit: International Conducting Competition Rotterdam, Opera Round
PlayingLuis Toro Araya dirigiert Beethovens 4. Sinfonie, Herbert von Karajan YCA Salzburger Festspiele
Credit: Salzburg Festival
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Ginastera & Brahms
Sinfónica de la Región de MurciaJan 2025It is not often that a young musician like Luis Toro Araya (1995) leaves such a good impression as the one perceived in the fifth concert of the current season of the Symphony Orchestra of the Region of Murcia (ÖSRM) in which he has starred as a guest conductor. His understanding and adaptation to the harmonic, melodic and expressive fits that are proposed in each of the twelve small pieces of this composition meant a whole display of technical faculties that demonstrated the versatility of this performer from a well-carved experience, among others, with masters of the stature of Zubin Mehta, Susanna Mälkki or Gustavo Dudamel who, From their different imprint, they have had a great influence on the personality of this Chilean maestro, diversifying in him a series of skills that were reaffirmed throughout the concert.First of all, we must highlight his attention to detail of the notation and consequent reading. This was manifested at all times in the varied orchestral rehearsal represented by these variations of Ginastera. Also the sensitive and natural knowledge of how the composer's musical voice should sound, based in this case on airs and rhythms of folkloric roots materialized with a modern instrumental treatment, a character that he confirmed in a resounding way in the Malambo with which he concludes the set of these variations. Continuing with his abilities, his technical prowess was decisive, driven by a very careful kinetics without the slightest motor exaggeration, an essential imprint to communicate an expressiveness that he anticipated in each measure, achieving that adequate correlation between gesture and sound, which allowed that breath of perceptual serenity to emerge that always requires an execution, even if it is of a lively and accelerated passage. All this baggage Luis Toro deployed in the varied composition, allowing the soloists involved in each variation to show off their best qualities such as those already shown by the harp and cello in the presentation of the theme. In the same way, all of them must be valued, highlighting the fifth for viola, the eighth for violin and the eleventh for double bass, as far as strings are concerned, which, as a whole, confirmed an excellent response in the first interlude.
- Codalario
- 23 January 2025