Miguel Pérez Iñesta

Miguel Pérez Iñesta studied piano, clarinet and dance in Asturias, Spain, before moving to Berlin in 2003, where he continued his studies with clarinettist and conductor Prof. Karl Heinz Steffens at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler. Between 2005 and 2007 Miguel was a member of the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic. In 2008 he founded his own new music ensemble, Zafraan Ensemble, where he is currently part of the Artistic Direction team.

Miguel concentrates his activities around four principal tasks: conducting, his Ensemble Zafraan, solo and his appearances as a guest musician with the Berliner Philharmoniker.

He has conducted in France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark and Norway and has been engaged as assistant musical director at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Staatsoper Berlin for different opera productions. His work with stage directors like Sabrina Hölzer, Matthias Rebstock, Iñigo Giner Miranda or Daniel Pfluger has contributed to open even more his view of music as a very expressive and accurate communication tool.

Miguel returns every year to the Podium Festival Esslingen, where he always proposes his novel and refreshing personal view on the works he conducts. In the last few festival editions, he has been working on space and listening experience, recontextualizing the pieces played by changing the place they are presented in, encouraging the audience to move or even making the sound source (the musicians) move around/among the audience, following different patterns and turning the concert into a 360 degrees experience.

He has worked repeatedly with the Experimentalstudio of the SWR and some of his concerts have been retransmitted live by Deutschlandfunk, RBB Kulturradio, SWR, Deutschland Radiokultur and Radio Nacional de España.

www.miguelperezinesta.com

As of January 2018