Antonio Lajara

Spanish conductor Antonio Lajara is the founder and conductor of the Arnova Ensemble. Based in Alicante, he maintains an active guest-conducting career and has appeared with the Euskadiko Orkestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada and Orquesta de la Región de Murcia.

He was selected for the final rounds of the 53rd Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors and for the Antal Doráti International Conducting Competition in Budapest. He was a finalist for the assistant conductor posts of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier and the Naples Philharmonic. He won third prize for best conductor at the Wiener Musikseminar.

Antonio studied orchestral conducting at Musikene, the Higher School of Music of the Basque Country, with Enrique García Asensio and Manel Valdivieso, and continued his training in Rome and Vienna. His teachers include Andrés Orozco-Estrada, with whom he maintains a close artistic relationship, and Bruno Aprea. He works in Spanish, English and French.