Roberto González-Monjas

The violinist and conductor Roberto González-Monjas, who was born in Valladolid, Spain, in 1988, studied with Igor Ozim at Salzburg’s Mozarteum University and with David Takeno at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has served as concertmaster with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and with the Musikkollegium Winterthur, which appointed him its Principal Conductor in 2021. He has been leading the Swedish chamber orchestra Dalasinfoniettan since 2019, and with the start of the 2022-23 season he will additionally take up the position of Principal Guest Conductor with the Belgian National Orchestra. Roberto González-Monjas has worked with such orchestras as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra and Camerata Salzburg, the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, the Orchestre national d’Île de France, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. He regularly performs with the Berlin Baroque Soloists, most recently as a soloist in Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. His musical partners also include the violinist Lisa Batiashvili; the singers Joyce DiDonato, Ian Bostridge and Juan Diego Flórez; the pianist Sir András Schiff; and the cellist Steven Isserlis. In 2015, together with conductor Alejandro Posada, he founded the non-profit organization Iberacademy, which aims to sustainably promote musical education in Latin America. Among the recordings released by Roberto González-Monjas, who is a professor of violin at London’s Guildhall School, are accounts of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos with the Berlin Baroque Soloists and Reinhard Goebel and of serenades by Mozart and Schoeck with the Musikkollegium Winterthur. He plays the “Filius Andreae” violin built by Giu-seppe Guarneri in 1710, the purchase of which was made possible by five Winterthur families and which is made available to Roberto González-Monjas by the Rychenberg Foundation.

Lucerne Festival debut on 18 March 2018 with the Iberacademy Orchestra in a program of works by Mozart and Beethoven.

August 2022