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Conductor
Néstor Bayona
MACKERRAS FELLOW AT THE ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA
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Nov 2026
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Gluck, C.W. - Iphigénie en Tauride
English National Opera
David Bates, Conductor
Lyndsey Turner, Stage Director
Nov 2026
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Gluck, C.W. - Iphigénie en Tauride
English National Opera
David Bates, Conductor
Lyndsey Turner, Stage Director
Nov 2026
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Gluck, C.W. - Iphigénie en Tauride
English National Opera
David Bates, Conductor
Lyndsey Turner, Stage Director
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Filarmonica de stat Targu Mures
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Michał Znaniecki, Stage Director
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Biography Highlights
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Néstor has been appointed as the Mackerras Fellow at the English National Opera for the 2026/28 seasons. He was Resident Conductor during the seasons 2022/24 at the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
La Traviata at the English Nationa Opera, debuts at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, Romeo et Juliette by Gounod at the Opera Śląska, Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci at the Hungarian Opera in Cluj-Napoca.
Symphonic concerts with Orquesta de València, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, the Kraków Philharmonic, the Spanish premiere of Ravel’s newly discovered Sémiramis at the Palau de la Música Catalana. Assisting Marin Alsop on Die schwarze Maske by Krzysztof Penderecki at the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw. Norma recording with the Pentatone with the Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra.
Néstor received the Associate of the Royal Northern College of Music (ARNCM) award in 2021 for his professional achievements and received the Ciutat de Lleida International Award 2015 for his cultural contribution to his hometown of Lleida.
Néstor Bayona is the Artistic Director of the Ricard Viñes International Piano Competition & Festival.
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Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio y Televisión Española, Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, Oviedo Filarmonía, Orquesta de Extremadura, Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès, Joven Orquesta Nacional de España, Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, Transilvania State Philharmonic, Târgu Mureş Philharmonic, Bochumer Symphoniker. Assistant conductor to Lawrence Foster for the productions of Pelléas et Mélisande and Lulu at the Enescu Festival. Assistant conductor at the Opera de Marseille for the productions of Candide, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Die Walküre, Don Carlo, Faust, Guillaume Tell, La donna del lago, La traviata, Le nozze di Figaro, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Turandot and Werther. In addition, he assisted at the Komische Oper Berlin for the production of Reimann’s Medea and at the Gran Teatre del Liceu for Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci.
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Morton Gould - Spirituals for orchestra
Morton Gould - Spirituals for orchestra
J. Strauss II: Die Fledermaus - Overture
J. Strauss II: Die Fledermaus - Overture
Interview Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci - Napoca Hungarian Opera
Interview Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci - Napoca Hungarian Opera
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Reviews & Press
Néstor Bayona - Spanish Premiere Semiramis by Ravel
Bayona, conducting without a score, offered a lively and energetic direction, and a reading that drew out all the orchestral imagination of the Andalusian composer, the flamenco gestures, and the Hispanic clichés — in the best sense. (…) In the second part, the final jota was simply spectacular, filling the modernist temple with a small,
frenetic ecstasy.
- Carlos García Reche , Platea Magazine
Néstor Bayona Opens the New Season with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León
Conductor Néstor Bayona, who already has considerable experience as a guest with numerous orchestras, felt very much at ease on the podium and conducted all the works from memory... Together they offered us the opening bars of a season that promises the assurance of an orchestra rightly considered to be on par with the very best.
- Emiliano Allende , El Norte de Castilla
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Names Resident Conductor
Nestor Bayona has been named Resident Conductor of the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. The news comes after the Spanish conductor assisted the orchestra and Marin Alsop on a successful tour to Japan. As the new Resident Conductor, Bayona will join NOSPR and its Music Director Lawrence Foster during the 2022-23 season after a two-year tenure as its Assistant Conductor. Starting in January 2023, Bayona will assist Foster as well as conduct a number of symphonic concerts, leading NOSPR in a variety of different concert programs, and significant projects such as recordings, family, and educational concerts.
- Francisco Salazar , Operawire
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Debut with OSPA
The OSPA, under Néstor Bayona´s accurate baton, knew how to face the difficulties hidden behind the four movements written by the Mallorcan composer. The balance of the Asturian ensemble came to the fore in the lyricism of the "Andante con motto", although surely the most impressive passages would come with the"theme and variations" (third movement), where the strings and woodwinds displayed a more than remarkable level, reserving some marked dynamics and a more powerful volume, with a certain air of solemnity, for the final "Allegro brillante", sealing an hour and a quarter of great musical level and the first edition of a Festival which, judging by the support of the public, seems to have come to stay.
