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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

 Max Bragado-Darman, music director
Monterey Symphony
In rehearsal with the
Monterey Symphony
  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.

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.  

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.
  Outside Carmel's Sunset Theater

Surrounded by members of the Monterey Symphony's auxiliary, the Friends of the Symphony.   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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