Angel Gil-Ordóñez
Conductor
2023 Guest Artist
A frequent guest conductor across Europe, the United States, and Latin America, Angel Gil-Ordóñez holds the positions of music director and conductor of PostClassical Ensemble (PCE) in Washington, DC. Called by The Washington Post “wildly adventurous”, PCE challenges and redefines what an orchestra does by radically rethinking the concert experience. In addition, Mr. Gil-Ordóñez is Principal Guest Conductor of New York’s Perspectives Ensemble, and music director of the Georgetown University Orchestra. He also serves as lead advisor for Trinitate Philharmonia, a program in León, Mexico, modeled on Venezuela’s El Sistema. Mr. Gil-Ordóñez is also a regular guest conductor at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine, and at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. He has appeared as guest conductor with the American Composers Orchestra, Opera Colorado, Pacific Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and at the Brevard Music Festival. The former Associate Conductor of Spain’s National Symphony Orchestra, Gil-Ordóñez received the Royal Order of Queen Isabella, the country’s highest civilian decoration, for his devotion to sharing Spanish culture with the world. He has recorded nine albums for Naxos, including PostClassical Ensemble’s three DVDs featuring classic 1930s films with newly recorded soundtracks by Aaron Copland, Silvestre Revueltas, and Virgil Thomson. To learn more about Gil-Ordóñez’ work, visit gilordonez.com
Photo credit: Andrew Chung