Pablo González

Pablo González brings passion, insight and a theatrical sensibility to communicating music to both orchestras and audiences. From September 2025, he serves as Principal Guest Conductor of Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. Previous positions have included Principal Conductor and Artistic Adviser of Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra (RTVE), and Music Director of Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (OBC).
González enjoys a diverse repertoire, from which he draws compelling programmes. At RTVE he devised themes such as Music under Suspicion, focused on Soviet composers under Stalin’s rule, Echoes of the Belle Époque, culminating in a semi-staged performance of Carmen, and Roots, exploring the influence of folk elements on 19th and 20th-century orchestral repertoire. While drawn instinctively to the passion and power of Russian repertoire, he also presented surveys of Berlioz, Mahler and Szymanowski, music by Spanish contemporary composers, and full Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms cycles.
As Music Director in Barcelona, he conducted full Mahler and Schumann cycles; led a central European tour, including an acclaimed appearance at Vienna’s Konzerthaus; recorded and released three volumes of orchestral works by Granados, and Bizet’s Carmen and L’Arlesienne suites (Naxos); and championed many new pieces by Catalan and Spanish composers. He strengthened the orchestra’s community focus, developing a collaborative social project Et toca a tu, bringing the musicians of the OBC together with children who were at risk of social exclusion.
Trained as an actor, he brings a dramatic understanding of music and stagecraft to opera and choral music. While in Barcelona, he conducted productions at Teatre Liceu including Strauss’s Daphne, Wagner’s Rienzi, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Puccini’s Il tabarro, as well as all of Mahler’s orchestral lieder. Highlights of recent seasons include the world premiere of Zarqa Al Yamama, the first Arabic-language Grand Opera, by Lee Bradshaw; Turandot for Latvian National Opera; and Tosca, Don Giovanni and Madama Butterfly at Opera de Oviedo.