20171009_MUN_NewUNAV YouthOrchestra

Borja Quintas is the new director of the Joven Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de Navarra. The training musical undertakes a new stage with the vocation of becoming a university orchestra of reference letter at international level. Its operation is inspired by that of university orchestras in the United States and Central Europe. Quintas, who has already conducted several youth orchestras, intends in this new project a professionalization of the group, as well as to facilitate the musical, cultural, social and human training of young musicians, to participate actively in the cultural life of Pamplona and Navarra, and to promote links and exchanges with other national and international universities, through music.

No cost and many benefits for young musicians

There will be no cost for participating musicians to join the orchestra, as it is a free activity offered by the Museum.

The first of the auditions will be held in this center on October 19 and may be presented, with previous application, all those interested persons under 28 years old who have studied or are studying programs of study music in any of the instruments of the symphony staff: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, trombone, bass trombone, tuba, percussion, piano, harp, violin, viola, cello and double bass.

In this way, the orchestra will admit students from the University and other university centers, other young students or active professionals, teachers, music students from conservatories and music schools. Candidates may be residents of Navarra, Aragon, La Rioja, Basque Country or any other location that allows them to travel to the place of the weekly essay , on Mondays from 18h to 21h in the theater of the Museum, in Pamplona. The approximate level will be that of Higher Education or the last years of Professional Education. Non-official music students may also be admitted, who should indicate this status at application.

Participants will receive recognition of participation, either in the form of university credits, as recognition of external internships or certification of issue of hours and academic staff, depending on the interests and circumstances of each participant.

Career path of Borja Quintas

The new director of the Joven Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de Navarra has been invited to conduct some of the most important ensembles in the world, such as the London Symphony Orchestra or the New Russia Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has worked in the most diverse genres, including an intense operatic activity in Russia, accompanying singers of the stature of María Bayo, María José Montiel or Alexander Vedernikov and a special attention to the music of the XX and XXI centuries, leading the "Studio for New Music Ensemble" in Moscow and with numerous premieres.

In Spain he has done important work with young symphonic ensembles, including the Joven Orquesta Nacional de España, the Joven Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, the Orquesta Sinfónica JMJ, and many others. He has also conducted choral groups such as the Orfeón Donostiarra or the Escolanía de El Escorial. In his symphonic programs, he has shared the stage with soloists such as Oxana Yablonskaya, Valery Sokolov, Gustavo Díaz-Jerez, Nikita Borisoglebsky or Alexander Trostiansky.

Born in Madrid, he graduated in Orchestra and Opera Conducting at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Full Professor Vladimir Ponkin. As a pianist he studied programs of study at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid with Full Professor Joaquín Soriano and at the Moscow Conservatory with Full Professor Viktor Merzhanov.

Borja Quintas has made several recordings for prestigious labels such as Naxos and Melomics Records and has collaborated with the main media in Spain and Russia. He has performed in the most important halls of these two countries, in other European countries such as England, Austria, France, Belgium or Italy and in the Middle East and Asia in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan.

Since 2012, he is a trustee of the Eutherpe Foundation. He also works at teaching as Full Professor in orchestral conducting at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón and at the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska. He is Director of the Russkaya Opera Theater in Moscow.