Lina González-Granados Conducts the SF Symphony
July 30 & 31, 2021
Overview
Lina González-Granados makes her SF Symphony debut with the spirited Spanish dance rhythms of music from Manuel de Falla’s ballet The Three-Cornered Hat. Then, the haunting melodies of Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto with Pablo Ferrández, and the enthralling Hungarian folk inflections of Zoltán Kodály’s Dances of Galánta.
Program
Manuel de
Falla
The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No. 1
Robert
Schumann
Cello Concerto
Zoltán
Kodály
Dances of Galánta
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Lina González-Granados
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Conductor
Lina González-Granados was named one of Bloomberg Línea’s 100 Influential Latinos of 2022 and was the recipient of the 2021 Sphinx Medal of Excellence, third prize and Echo Special Award of La Maestra Competition, and two Solti Foundation US Career Assistance Awards. After winning the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition, González-Granados was named the Solti Conducting Apprentice, and served as the assistant to Riccardo Muti from 2020–23. In 2022, she was appointed resident conductor by the LA Opera, a post she will hold through June 2028. She was also the inaugural conducting fellow of the Philadelphia Orchestra and a conducting fellow of the Seattle Symphony.
González-Granados’s 2025–26 season started on tour with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Anne-Sophie Mutter, performing across France, Germany and Austria, followed by debuts with Orquestra Sinfónica de Minería, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Taiwan Philharmonic, Istanbul State Orchestra, and National Orchestra of Spain. This season she returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra, Kristiansand Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra Ireland, Quebec’s Orchestre Métropolitain, and LA Opera. Recent highlights include debuts with Opera Philadelphia, the Indianapolis Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, New World Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Quebec Symphony, and Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut in July 2021.
Born and raised in Cali, Colombia, González-Granados made her conducting debut in 2008 with the Youth Orchestra of Bellas Artes. She holds a master’s degree and graduate diploma from New England Conservatory and a doctorate from Boston University.
González-Granados’s 2025–26 season started on tour with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Anne-Sophie Mutter, performing across France, Germany and Austria, followed by debuts with Orquestra Sinfónica de Minería, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Taiwan Philharmonic, Istanbul State Orchestra, and National Orchestra of Spain. This season she returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra, Kristiansand Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra Ireland, Quebec’s Orchestre Métropolitain, and LA Opera. Recent highlights include debuts with Opera Philadelphia, the Indianapolis Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, New World Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Quebec Symphony, and Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut in July 2021.
Born and raised in Cali, Colombia, González-Granados made her conducting debut in 2008 with the Youth Orchestra of Bellas Artes. She holds a master’s degree and graduate diploma from New England Conservatory and a doctorate from Boston University.
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Pablo Ferrández
Cello
Pablo Ferrández was a prizewinner at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015. This season, he debuts at the BBC Proms with the Royal Philharmonic and with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He tours Spain with the Musikkollegium Winterthur Orchestra and Germany with the BBC Philharmonic, and also appears at the Verbier Festival.
Recent seasons have taken Ferrández to the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Filarmonica della Scala, Toronto Symphony, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Beijing NCPA Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, and Seoul Philharmonic, among others.
His debut album, Reflections (2021), released on Sony Classical, won the Opus Klassik Award. His second album, released in 2022, paired him with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis in the Brahms Double Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic and Manfred Honeck, as well as in Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio. His most recent release, Moonlight Variations (2025), featuring Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, topped streaming charts and received critical acclaim.
Ferrández plays Antonio Stradivarius’s “Archinto” cello of 1689, on a generous lifelong loan from a member of the Stretton Society. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in May 2024.
Recent seasons have taken Ferrández to the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Filarmonica della Scala, Toronto Symphony, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Beijing NCPA Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, and Seoul Philharmonic, among others.
His debut album, Reflections (2021), released on Sony Classical, won the Opus Klassik Award. His second album, released in 2022, paired him with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis in the Brahms Double Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic and Manfred Honeck, as well as in Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio. His most recent release, Moonlight Variations (2025), featuring Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, topped streaming charts and received critical acclaim.
Ferrández plays Antonio Stradivarius’s “Archinto” cello of 1689, on a generous lifelong loan from a member of the Stretton Society. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in May 2024.
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