Alejandro Cantalapiedra is managed worldwide by Interartists Amsterdam.
General management: Hylke van Lingen
Benelux countries: Ydeleine Berntsen
Mediterranean countries: Rozemarijn Tiben
Contact:
E: hylke.v.lingen@interartists.nl
T: +31 6 117 117 20
Spanish conductor Alejandro Cantalapiedra (1994) is raising attention already as an architect of sound. His structural vision of musical works combined with charismatic musicianship enable him to give special character to the great symphonic repertoire.
As of the 2023-24 season, he is assistant conductor to the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and to Dutch National Opera. In the summer of 2022, he made his debut at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam, where is he a regular choirmaster.
He has been chief conductor of Utrecht Young Orchestra since 2019 and was chief conductor and founder of the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid from 2016-2023. With these youth orchestras, he has conducted in important concerts halls such as the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, TivoliVredenburg and De Doelen Rotterdam.
Since 2022, he has been assisting at Dutch National Opera in the productions of Salome, Königskinder and Der Freischütz, working with Cornelius Meister, Marc Albrecht and Patrick Hahn and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic.
Alejandro won the first prize at the II International Conducting Competition in Estoril, conducting the Orquestra de Camara de Cascais e Oeiras as guest conductor, as well as the Varna Symphony orchestra.
Since his residency in Madrid as a student of architecture at the Universidad Politécnica, Alejandro has been developing his artistic career, complementing his musical training in parallel with the creation of youth orchestras, with the aim of attracting an audience that is initially distant from the formalities of the classical concert scene. The JOECOM and Orquesta Sinfónica UPM, both in Madrid, were born out of this endeavour. With these youth orchestras, Alejandro reached in a short time an artistic level that is unimaginable for a musician of his age at the head of such heterogeneous groups. With his great energy, he has guided the youth orchestras to performances of Beethoven’s Eroica and Symphony No. 9 and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at the National Auditorium of Spain, receiving overwhelming acclaim from the audience and the press.
Alejandro started his conducting studies with Juan María Esteban del Pozo and Miguel Romea, before moving to the Netherlands where he continues to study at Codarts Rotterdam with Hans Leenders, Sander Teepen, and Wiecher Mandemaker. He attended masterclasses of Antony Hermus and Karel Deseure, among others
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