JULIO GARCIA-VICO
CONDUCTOR
CLASSICAL
General Manager: Javier Manzana
Territory: Worldwide
“García Vico’s reading, with a hyper-expressive conducting, without baton or score, was splendid… The orchestra was extraordinary, precise, brilliant… The result was a memorable performance that earned, deservedly, one of the longest standing ovations of the season”
ABOUT
Winner of the 2021 Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition, Julio García-Vico is Assistant Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, where he works closely with conductors Sir Simon Rattle, Gianandrea Noseda, François-Xavier Roth, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Barbara Hannigan and Antonio Pappano. He is also assistant to Maestro Nicola Luisotti at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
Julio is also winner of the 2019 International German Conductors’ Award (First Prize, Audience Award of the Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung 2019, and the Prize of the Opernfreunde Bonn 2019) where he conducted Strauss’s Don Juan from memory with the WDR Sinfonieorchester at the Kölner Philharmonie; the jury described him as “an extraordinary talent.”
He has been the musical director of the Opera Studio at the Krefeld and Mönchengladbach theaters in Germany, and has debuted as guest conductor with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra, Spanish National Orchestra, RTVE Orchestra, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada and at the Mariinsky Theater.
Upcoming engagements will see him appear with the Barcelona Symphony, Tenerife Symphony, Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, Mantova Chamber Orchestra and also in Seoul and at Carnegie Hall conducting the International Sejong Soloists.
Julio graduated in conducting from the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf with Prof. Bohn, has been academist at the renowned Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, and also has pursued studies in philosophy, piano, repetition and viola.
He speaks fluently seven languages, including Spanish, English, German, Italian and Japanese.
“A Star is born. The absolute highlight of the evening was the Sextet of Cosi fan tutte, conducted by Julio Garcia Vico. Perfectly balanced vocal lines, precisely worked out orchestral parts, the magic of the opera appeared [...] with Freischütz he proved that he also mastered romantic opera.”