Robert Trevino

About Robert

Robert Trevino, Music Director of the Basque National Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra. Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, and Artistic Advisor of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, has rapidly emerged as one of the most exciting American conductors performing today, as well as one of the most in-demand talents of the younger generation.

His multi-year recording contract with the leading classical label, Ondine, has resulted in an internationally praised release of complete Beethoven Symphonies (Malmö), and a highly acclaimed Ravel album (Basque). Ondine will release works of Einojuhani Rautavaara with Trevino and Malmö in 2022. At the end of 2021 Americascapes, a selection of overlooked American masterpieces by Carl Ruggles, Howard Hanson, Charles Martin Loeffler, and Henry Cowell, brought Trevino and the BNO an Editor’s Choice (Gramophone) and Record of the Year (Presto Music).

Having won the “James Conlon Conducting Prize” at the Aspen Music Festival & School, and subsequently serving as Associate Conductor for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and New York City Opera, Trevino burst into the international spotlight at the Bolshoi Theater in December 2013, leading a new production of Verdi’s Don Carlo at short notice. The Russian press wrote, “There has not been an American success of this magnitude in Moscow since Van Cliburn.” He was subsequently nominated for a Golden Mask award for "Best Conductor in a New Production."

In recent seasons Trevino’s European engagements have included the London Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Gewandhausorchester, Wiener Symphoniker, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris and Radio-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. In America he has conducted the Cleveland Orchestra, the symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Toronto and Detroit and led Washington National Opera’s new production of Evgeny Onegin. In 2021-22 he made his debut with the Utah Symphony and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala and Orchestra national du Capitole de Toulouse.

Robert Trevino has commissioned, premiered and worked closely with many leading composers, among them John Adams, Philip Glass, Sofia Gubaidulina, Jennifer Higdon, Andre Previn, Augusta Read Thomas, Shulamit Ran and John Zorn.