Currently in his seventh season as music director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya made his Boston Symphony Orchestra debut at Tanglewood in July 2003. His January 2008 concerts with the BSO mark his subscription series debut. Under Mr. Harth-Bedoya’s leadership, both the artistic level of the Fort Worth Symphony and its contribution to the cultural life of the community have grown enormously; the orchestra will make its Carnegie Hall debut under his direction in January 2008. Recently released recordings of the Fort Worth Symphony include an all-Tchaikovsky disc and the first-ever bilingual recording of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf featuring narrations in Spanish and English with Michael York. Mr. Harth-Bedoya’s recordings also include “Sentimiento Latin” with Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez, on Decca, and “Alma dell Perú,” a recording of Peruvian traditional music with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Lima, on Filarmonika. An active guest conductor, Mr. Harth-Bedoya has appeared with the Atlanta Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Boston Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Utah Symphony, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. In Europe he has conducted the BBC Symphony, Berlin Symphony, Birmingham Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Madrid National Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, NDR Orchestra/Hamburg, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, WDR Orchestra/Cologne, and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, among others. Festival appearances include Adelaide, Aspen, Avanti (in Helsinki), the BBC Proms, Blossom, the Hollywood Bowl (for which he received an Emmy), Interlochen, the Oregon Bach Festival, Ravinia, and Tanglewood. Recent and upcoming highlights include subscription debuts with the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, National Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Sydney Symphony in Australia. Increasingly in demand as an opera conductor, Miguel Harth-Bedoya has appeared with Minnesota Opera (for Tosca) and Santa Fe Opera (for Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar with Dawn Upshaw). He returns to Minnesota Opera in September 2007, to conduct Un ballo in maschera, and will conduct several other productions there in the next few seasons. Upcoming debuts include The Barber of Seville with the Canadian Opera Company and a new production of La bohème, directed by Jonathan Miller, at English National Opera in London. Mr. Harth-Bedoya was associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, to which he now returns every year to conduct a subscription week. Winner of the 2002 Seaver/NEA Conductors Award, he has also served as music director of the Auckland Philharmonia, Eugene Symphony, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Lima. Born in Peru, Miguel Harth-Bedoya makes his home in Fort Worth with his wife Maritza and their three children, Elena, Emilio, and Elisa. For more information, please visit miguelharth-bedoya.com and filarmonika.com. Miguel Harth-Bedoya’s BSO debut program at Tanglewood in 2003 included music of Rossini, Mozart, Golijov (Three Songs for soprano and orchestra, with Dawn Upshaw), and Kodály.
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