Enrique Arturo

DIEMECKE

Enrique Diemecke is Artistic General Director of the world renowned Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and is the first internationally acclaimed conductor to hold the position as artistic leader of the 110 year old acoustical and architectural marvel, considered by many to be the greatest opera house in the world. In the rich 110 year artistic history of the current Teatro Colón, hundreds of the world’s greatest artists of their day have brought their artistry to that stage. Among them Arturo Toscanini, Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Enrico Caruso, Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, Eduardo Mata, Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Rudolph Nureyev. Celebrated composers who have conducted their own works at the Colón include Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky and Camille Saint-Saëns. 
Arturo Diemecke

Maestro Diemecke began his rise to musical leadership at the Teatro Colón as Music Director of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic, an anchor ensemble of the theater. He continues at the helm of the Philharmonic an unprecedented 14 years on, and has overseen all artistic activities of opera, concerts and ballet, since February of 2017. Maestro Diemecke has also 31th seasons as Music Director of the award-winning Flint Symphony Orchestra in Michigan in the 2019-2020 season. 

In 2018 and 2019 Diemecke conducted the orchestras of the Teatro Colón in massive concerts for 160 thousands people in Rosedal Square of Palermo, Buenos Aires, and San Martín Square, Mar del Plata, with the program El Colón Federal. Also, in 2017 he has been awarded with the medal “Mérito en Artes” by the Asamblea Legislativa of Mexico City, and in 2018 the prix “Mexicano Distinguido” from the Chancellery of the Government of México.

Enrique Diemecke presented this year his biography Enrique Arturo Diemecke. Biografía con Música de Mahler, written by poet José Angel Leyva for Siglo XXI Editors in México. This edition includes Maestro Diemecke’s version of the Mahler’s First Symphony, Titan with the Blumine.
Enrique Diemecke enjoys an international recording, operatic, and concert career. He brings an electrifying balance of passion, intellect and technique to his performances.  Warmth, pulse, and spontaneity are all hallmarks of his conducting –conducting that has earned him an international reputation for performances that are riveting in their sweep and dynamism. In the words of The New York Times, Diemecke is a conductor of “fierceness and authority.”  A noted interpreter of the works of Mahler, Maestro Diemecke has been awarded a Mahler Society medal for his performances of the composer’s complete symphonies. Diemecke has been recently named Honorary Director of Mahler Society of México.
Maestro Diemecke is a frequent guest of orchestras throughout the world, most notably the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, French National Orchestra, BBC Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, L’Orchestre de Paris, Residentie Orkest in The Hague, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Residentie Orkest in The Hague, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Brisbane, the Russian National Orchestra, the Bogotá Philharmonic, the Puerto Rico Symphony, Simón Bolivar Orchestra in Caracas, l’Orchestre National de Lorraine, the National Orchestra of Montpellier, the Valladolid Symphony, the ORCAM Madrid, L’Orchestre de Isle de France, and the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Houston, Minnesota, and Auckland. He is also frequently invited to festivals such as the Lincoln Center Summer Festival, the Hollywood Bowl Festival, Wolf Trap, Autumno Musicale a Como (Italy), Europalia (Brussels), World Fair Expo Sevilla (Spain), Festival International Radio France, and the World Orchestra Festival in Moscow where he led the Bogotá Philharmonic.