Jordi Francés develops an interesting activity characterized by a wide perspective on the artistic fact. As a director he coexists between opera, symphonic repertoire and current creation. His most recent commitments include invitations from the Spanish National Orchestra, Teatro Real, Madrid Community Orchestra, Valencia Orchestra, Bilbao Symphony and numerous projects with the Ensemble Sonido Extremo, of which he is the artistic director.
He has also conducted the BBC Philharmonic, RTVE Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, and many other ensembles in Europe and America. In recent years he has regularly collaborated with the National Orchestra of Spain, the Orchestra of Extremadura, the National Youth Orchestra of Spain and the Community of Madrid Youth Orchestra, with which he has also carried out opera, ballet and musical theatre projects.
Also, very interested in contemporary creation, he has made the world premieres of more than 80 works and has worked with composers such as: Birtwistle, Eötvös, Haas, Manoury, Sotelo, López-López, Hurel, Sánchez-Verdú, Camarero, Torres, Río -Couple, Magrané, García-Tomás, Rueda, among many others.
Commitments for the 2022-2023 season include concerts with the Navarra Symphony Orchestra, the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra and his long-awaited debut with the Barcelona and Catalonia National Symphony Orchestra. In addition, after the successful premiere of the opera Tránsito (Jesús Torres), he will return to the Teatro Real to direct Orphée (Philip Glass) and one of the performances of Arabella (Richard Strauss).
He has a degree from the Hogeschool Zuyd in Maastricht (Holland), a postgraduate degree in contemporary repertoire conducting from the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Switzerland and a master’s degree in Musicology from the University of La Rioja. His extensive training as a conductor also includes stays at institutions such as the Manhattan School of Music in New York, the International Järvi Academy in Estonia, the Eötvös Foundation in Budapest or the IRCAM in Paris with professors such as Kurt Masur, Paavo Järvi and Peter Eötvös.
