Robert Trevino Named New Music Director of Basque National Orchestra

Conductor Robert Trevino has been appointed as the new music director of the Basque National Orchestra. The 32-year-old musician was most recently an associate conductor with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and formerly performed in orchestral conducting positions with the New York City Opera, the Aspen Music Festival and the Tanglewood Festival.

Per the Basque National Orchestra's website, the appointment was first made public earlier this month. Trevino has previously conducted the Basque National Orchestra on two occassions in March and September of this year. He will succeed German conductor Jun Markl in the post:

"This new appointment, at the proposal of the general director of the Euskadi Orchestra, Oriol Roch, was approved by the board of directors meeting held this morning at the Miramon headquarters and presided over by the minister for education, language policy and culture of the Basque government, Cristina Uriarte. Robert Trevino will take over from Jun Markl, who will finish his three season contract in June 2017, which he began in autumn 2014."

Trevino will assume his new role for the 2017/2018 season. As indicated in a recent press release from the James Inverne Music Consultancy, Trevino is one of the biggest up-and-coming American conductors. His outlook on music is described in his serious contemplation of the conducting craft:

"Music-making is not a passive activity," says Trevino, "I was always taught that it's about critical investigation, about prodding the soul, heart and mind and even testing your physical capacity to create great art. I went completely against what I was expected to do in my life because I had a compulsion to sacrifice everything for music, and to this day I have that compulsion."

Trevino initially received international acclaim in 2013 as an alternate conductor for Vasily Sinaisky in the Bolshoi Theatre's performance of Verdi's Don Carlo. The feat earned Trevino a nomination for the Golden Mask Award. Before that, Trevino studied as an "Aspen Conducting Fellow" with his mentor, David Zinman, and won the James Conlon Prize for Excellence in Conducting.

Take a look at Trevino's conducting prowess in action below.

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