Biography
Conductor
Gustavo Gimeno
Gustavo Gimeno has been music director of the Toronto Symphony since the 2020–21 season and has committed to the orchestra through 2030. This year also marks his inaugural season as music director of Madrid’s Teatro Real. He was previously music director of the Luxembourg Philharmonic.
This season, Gimeno debuts with the New York Philharmonic and returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Recent highlights include appearances with the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and NHK Symphony.
In February 2025, Gimeno and the TSO released their second album together on Harmonia Mundi, featuring Igor Stravinsky’s Pulcinella and Divertimento as well as the world premiere recording of Kelly-Marie Murphy’s Curiosity, Genius, and the Search for Petula Clark. Their first album for the label featured Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie and won the Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year (Large Ensemble). With the Luxembourg Philharmonic, he developed an extensive discography with Pentatone.
In March 2025, Gimeno was appointed a commander of the Order of Civil Merit by King Felipe VI of Spain, and following his tenure with the Luxembourg Philharmonic, Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg made Gimeno an officer in the Order of Civil and Military Merit of Adolph of Nassau. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in November 2021.
This season, Gimeno debuts with the New York Philharmonic and returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Recent highlights include appearances with the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and NHK Symphony.
In February 2025, Gimeno and the TSO released their second album together on Harmonia Mundi, featuring Igor Stravinsky’s Pulcinella and Divertimento as well as the world premiere recording of Kelly-Marie Murphy’s Curiosity, Genius, and the Search for Petula Clark. Their first album for the label featured Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie and won the Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year (Large Ensemble). With the Luxembourg Philharmonic, he developed an extensive discography with Pentatone.
In March 2025, Gimeno was appointed a commander of the Order of Civil Merit by King Felipe VI of Spain, and following his tenure with the Luxembourg Philharmonic, Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg made Gimeno an officer in the Order of Civil and Military Merit of Adolph of Nassau. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in November 2021.
