BORJA QUINTAS

Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra, Choir, and Choral School JMJ, the University of Navarra Symphony Orchestra, the Young Symphony Orchestra of Soria, the UCAM Symphony Orchestra, and the CSMA Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also served as Director of the Russkaya Opera Theater in Moscow and the Children's Choir of the Community of Madrid.

He has been invited to conduct some of the world's most important ensembles, such as the London Symphony Orchestra and the New Russia Symphony Orchestra, and has shared the stage with soloists of the caliber of Plácido Domingo, Javier Camarena, María Bayo, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Valery Sokolov, Oxana Yablonskaya, Ara Malikian, and Lucero Tena, among many others.

He has performed in the most important venues in Russia and Spain, in major European capitals, and in the Middle East in Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyzstan. He has collaborated with prestigious record labels such as Naxos in promoting 20th and 21st-century music and with leading Spanish and Russian media outlets.

Recipient of scholarships from various entities such as the Barrié de la Maza Foundation, he trained at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow under professors Vladimir Ponkin and Viktor Merzhanov and at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid under professor Joaquín Soriano.

He also actively engages in teaching as the Academic Director of the Master's Degree in Conducting at the Katarina Gurska Higher Center and as a professor of Orchestral Conducting at the Higher Conservatory of Music of Aragon.