Always at home in theatrical, scenic or operatic contexts and conscious of the power of sound as a poetic tool, conductor Miguel Pérez Iñesta has lately focused his activity on contemporary opera and the scenic symphonic concert. He has worked with artistic partners such as the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne and the orchestra of the Opéra de Lyon.
Between 2018 and 2022 Miguel was musical director of the community project of Kammerakademie Potsdam “Stadtteil Macht Oper!” He conducted the Karajan Akademie of the Berlin Philharmonic at the Neue Nationalgalerie’s reopening ceremony in 2021. In 2022 Miguel worked with the musicians of the Munich Philharmonic on a program around the piece „Femenine“, by afroamerican composer Julius Eastman and did his debut with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin during the Match Cut Festival.
During 2023 Miguel conducted the opening production of the Haydn Orchestra’s opera series at the Staatstheater Bolzano. He brought the Kammerakademie Potsdam to BeethovenFest Bonn, could be seen at Festival Ultraschall with the Zafraan Ensemble, was at Konzerthaus Dortmund with the WDR Symphony Orchestra and worked on Georg Friedrich Haas’ opera “Bluthaus” at the Opera de Lyon. Miguel was also invited by Ensemble L‘Itineraire to celebrate their 50th anniversary with a concert at IRCAM in Paris.
Founding member and, between 2012 and 2017, artistic director of the Berlin based Zafraan Ensemble, Miguel has worked with some of the greatest composers of our time, such as Helmut Lachenmann, Hèctor Parra, Gyorgy Kurtág, Matthias Pintscher, Tristan Murail, Chaya Czernowin, Johannes Schöllhorn, Elena Mendoza, Sarah Nemtsov, Oscar Bianchi, Samir Odeh-Tamimi or Pierre Boulez.
Born in Valladolid in 1980, Miguel Pérez Iñesta studied clarinet, piano and ballet in Asturias, before moving to Berlin, where he completed his studies at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule and at the Karajan Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
