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A MESSAGE FROM
MAX BRAGADO-DARMAN
Dear Friends,
Welcome to the Monterey Symphony. We are pleased that you have
found our website which provides more information on our next
performances.
Please
click here for the latest information.
I look forward to the upcoming concerts
which contain some of my favorite works in the repertoire.
All the best,
Max Bragado-Darman
Valladolid, Spain |
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Max Bragado-Darman,
music director
Monterey Symphony |
 In
rehearsal with the
Monterey Symphony |
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MAX BRAGADO-DARMAN,MUSIC
DIRECTOR OF THE MONTEREY SYMPHONY
Spanish conductor Max Bragado-Darman
was named music director of Monterey Symphony by a unanimous
vote of the orchestra's music director search committee on March
17, 2004. His
duties as music director began on July 1, 2004. He is the
eleventh music director of the 63-year-old orchestra which
serves the communities of the Monterey Bay, Salinas, Salinas
Valley, Big Sur, and San Benito County. |
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For nine years, Max Bragado was music director and
conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of Castile and León, considered one of the
most prestigious orchestras in Spain. Under his
direction, the orchestra performed for enthusiastic audiences in all the
major cities of Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and Germany. He recorded
with this ensemble many unknown works of the Spanish repertoire, as well
as most of the orchestral works of Turina and Rodrigo which are available on the Naxos
label. He also recorded all of the works for cello and orchestra by
Alberto Ginastera with Mr. Ginastera's wife, Aurora Anatola, as soloist,
as well as many works of the traditional
repertoire. |
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Monterey Symphony Music
Director Designate Max Bragado-Darman and then President Alyce Nunes
at the contract signing ceremony on Wednesday, March 17, 2004. |
Max Bragado was music director and conductor of The Louisville Orchestra
from 1995-1998. Under his direction, the orchestra grew in popularity
due to his rapport with audiences and his innovative programming. He has
worked with Alicia de Larrocha, Teresa Berganza, Horatio Gutierrez,
Elmar Oliveira, Anne Akiko Myers, Andre Watts, Angel Romero, Gary
Graffman, Dubravka Tomsic, Oxana Yablonskaya, and Aaron Rosand, among
many others.
As guest conductor, Max Bragado has performed with many symphony
orchestras in the United States including those located in the cities of
Honolulu, San Diego, Nashville, Cleveland, Savannah, Oklahoma City, Fort
Worth, Austin, and the New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; the London
Symphony, the National Orchestra of Mexico, most major orchestras of
Spain, and a large number of distinguished European ensembles.
Born in Madrid in 1945 and trained as a pianist, Max Bragado graduated
from the Royal Conservatory of Madrid and received advanced degrees at
Oberlin College and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Max Bragado lives in New York City with his wife Mary. He has two adult
children Julio and Ilia. |
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 Outside
Carmel's Sunset Theater |
 Surrounded
by members of the Monterey Symphony's auxiliary, the Friends of
the Symphony. |
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The Monterey Symphony is a not for profit, public benefit corporation,
supported, in part, through the fundraising efforts of the Friends of
the Monterey Symphony and generous grants from the James Irvine
Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Harden Foundation,
Stanton Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County, Monterey
Peninsula Foundation, Chapman Foundation, McGraw-Hill Foundation and many generous individual donors.
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