Beethoven's Fifth
Beethoven's Fifth
Saturday, March 20th, 2027 | 7:30 PM
Sunday, March 21, 2027 | 3:00 PM
The Granada Theatre
Concert Duration: Approximately 100 minutes (including intermission)
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Four notes. The most famous in all of music, and you know them. When Guest Conductor Josep Caballé and The Symphony unleash Beethoven’s Fifth live in The Granada, you will hear why — the sound of fate itself is knocking at the door. Then, from drama to celebration as audiences are transported to Spain. Falla’s Three-Cornered Hat stamps with flamenco fire with dancer Lakshmi Basile, while guitar virtuoso Pablo Garibay debuts in Ponce’s sensuous, sun-warmed Concierto del sur.
The Artists
Josep Caballé Domenech, conductor
Pablo Garibay, guitar
Repertoire
PONCE | Concierto del sur
FALLA | The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No. 2
BEETHOVEN | Symphony No. 5
Josep Caballé Domenech, conductor
Josep Caballé Domenech is considered one of Spain’s most renowned and established conductors. Since 2018, he has been the chief conductor of the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra. Recently, he concluded his twelve-year tenure as Music Director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, where he became the first conductor in the orchestra’s 98-year history to receive the title of “Laureate Conductor.” From 2013 to 2018, he served as General Music Director of the Opera Halle and the Staatskapelle Halle. In 2018, he was Artistic Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogotá and, between 2005 and 2007, Principal Guest Conductor of the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra in Sweden.
Read more about Josep Caballé Domenech
As guest conductor, Caballé Domenech has conducted a prominent list of orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic, with which he recorded Respighi’s “Roman Trilogy” on Onyx Classics, BBC Philharmonic, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Hr-Sinfonieorchester, Bayerischen Rundfunk, Bamberg Symphony, WDR Sinfonieorchester, DSO Berlin, Czech Philharmonic, RSO Wien, Tonkünstler Symphony, Belgian National Symphony, Antwerp Symphony, LaVerdi Milano, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, New Japan Philharmonic and the Symphony Orchestras of Baltimore, Houston, San Antonio, Tucson, Fort Worth and Sichuan, amongst numerous others.
In Spain he has conducted the National Orchestra, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, RTVE Orchestra, Principado of Asturias Symphony Orchestra, Basque National Orchestra, Palau de les Arts Orchestra, Granada City Orchestra, Orchestra of Extremadura, Valencia Orchestra, Navarra Symphony Orchestra, Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Galicia Symphony Orchestra and Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra.
He is also invited to international festivals such as the Aspen Music Festival and School, Texas Music Festival, Chautauqua Festival, the Granada International Music and Dance Festival, George Enescu Festival and ClassicAnd.
Renowned for his career in the operatic field, Caballé Domenech made his debut at the Gran Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona, conducting Così fan tutte and later Il mondo della luna of Haydn, L´elisir d´amore, María del Carmen of Granados and Lucia di Lammermoor and has also conducted the company at the Savonlinna Festival and La Fenice Festival in Venice. Additionally, he has led productions at the Staatsoper Berlin, Hamburg Staatsoper, State Opera Stuttgart, Dresden Semperoper, Theater an der Wien, Volksoper in Vienna, Komische Oper in Berlin, Aalto Theater in Essen, Capitol du Toulouse, Theater Royal du Versailles, San Carlo di Napoli, ABAO-Bilbao Opera, Sao Carlos Theater in Lisbon and the Beijing National Opera.
Opera highlights include Luisa Fernanda de Moreno Torroba at the Theater an der Wien with Plácido Domingo, a Tosca‘s new production at the Volksoper in Vienna, the world premiere of La cabeza del Bautista at the Gran Teatro del Liceo, Wagner’s Ring, The Flying Dutchman, Aida, Tosca, Adriana Lecouvreur and Sweeney Todd at the Halle Opera, Fanciulla del West, Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana at the Hamburg Staatsoper, as well as Salomé and Rosenkavalier at the Teatro Mayor in Bogotá.
Latest highlights are the debuts at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid and the Teatro Real in concert with Bryn Terfel, a collaboration with Lang Lang and the Orquesta del Palau de les Arts in Valencia and a concert with Yo-Yo Ma at the 90th Anniversary Gala of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic. A special mention is the concert for the benefit of the Gute Tat Foundation with the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra at the emblematic Chamber Music Hall at the Berlin Philharmonie.
The recent seasons took him to the Dresden Festival Orchestra, Konzerthaus Berlin, and Kulturpalast Dresden with the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra, as well as to the Niederrheinische Symphoniker, Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra, Memphis and Portland Symphony Orchestras, Asturias Symphony Orchestra in Oviedo, RTVE Madrid, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra, Szczecin Philharmonic, and to concerts with Plácido Domingo in Madrid and Mérida. He also conducted Carmen in Puerto Rico, Ariadne auf Naxos in Bogotá and Lohengrin in Dortmund.
Born in Barcelona into a family of musicians, Josep Caballé-Domenech studied piano, percussion, singing and violin. He took conducting lessons with David Zinman, Jorma Panula, Sergiu Comissiona and pursued studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He was the winner of the 1st Young Conductors Competition of the Principado of Asturias Symphony Orchestra (2000) and the 13th Nicolai Malko International Competition for Young Conductors (2001). Caballé-Domenech was awarded the Aspen Prize from the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, and also selected as “Protégé” in the inaugural cycle of the Sir Colin Davis’ Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative 2002-03.
Pablo Garibay, guitar
The Mexican guitarist Pablo Garibay has established himself as a leading force on the international classical guitar scene, with his pioneering interpretations of well-known classics and impressive performances of lesser-known masterpieces. With a repertoire that includes the great guitar concertos, notably those by Rodrigo, Vivaldi, Giuliani, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Manuel Ponce and Villa-Lobos, Pablo Garibay is particularly known for his interpretations of Latin American music, having performed premières by contemporary composers Ernesto Garcia de León, Juan Helguera, Diógenes Rivas, Mateo Barreiro, Ernesto Cordero, Rodrigo Sigal, and Tomás Barreiro.
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As a concerto soloist, he made his professional début with the Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de Mexico and has since appeared as soloist with orchestras throughout Europe and the Americas. A winner of no fewer than sixteen international prizes, including first prizes at the International Francisco Tárrega Competition, International Julián Arcas Competition (Spain), Manuel Ponce International Guitar Competition (Mexico City), René Bartoli International Competition (Aix-en-Provence, France), JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition (Buffalo, USA), the International Guitar Competition in Aachen, and the International Guitar Competition in Gevelsberg (Germany). He is currently Guitar Professor at the UNAM’s Music Faculty in México City.
La Chimi
Lakshmi Basile, performing under her stage name, La Chimi, is an international master of dance. She is a highly skilled and sought-after flamenco artist and soloist. She is responsible for the production and direction of many of the shows listed in her CV. In 2011, she started her own flamenco company, Luna Flamenca Dance Company.
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La Chimi has been the soloist at many tablaos (flamenco performance venues) throughout Spain. She is said to tener duende – a highly charismatic dancer that enters a trance-like state. Alberto García Reyes, ABC-Sevilla states, “un desgarrador homenaje a los románticos de lo jondo” (“a heart-wrenching homage to the romantics of pure flamenco”).
As an in-demand teacher in the world of flamenco, La Chimi sees the opportunity, from her years of studying and performing the craft, to spread her expertise and the magic of flamenco. More than just teaching steps, La Chimi is sought after for her ability to teach the broad spectrum of moods that is intrinsic to the interpretation of the Flamenco form. From Cante Jondo (characterized by profound emotions and themes of death, anguish or despair), to Cante Chico (with themes of love, humor, and gaiety).
Alma Flamenca is La Chimi’s non-profit organization based in San Diego, California. La Chimi established her non-profit to spread the love of the dance form by hosting monthly peñas – a flamenco club where professionals and afficionados attend.+
Nir Kabaretti
is The Santa Barbara Symphony's world-renowned Music & Artistic Director
Nir Kabaretti has worked with some of the world’s most sought-after musicians. Some of his most well-known collaborators include Lang Lang, Placido Domingo, Joyce Di Donato, Angel Joy Blue, Vadim Repin, Gilles Apap, Hélène Grimaud, and André Watts.
Nir Kabaretti
is The Santa Barbara Symphony's World-Renowned Music & Artistic Director
Nir Kabaretti has worked with some of the world’s most sought-after musicians. Some of his most well-known collaborators include Lang Lang, Placido Domingo, Joyce Di Donato, Angel Joy Blue, Vadim Repin, Gilles Apap, Hélène Grimaud, and André Watts.
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