Pablo Heras-Casado

"A luminous and urgent performance, deftly balancing the shifts from moody ruminations to bouts of exuberance.... Mr. Heras-Casado is the thinking person’s idea of a hotshot young conductor." (New York Times, February 2013)

"There's a reason why Pablo Heras-Casado's guest appearances with the San Francisco Symphony have emerged as a reliable high point of the orchestra's activities." (San Francisco Chronicle, February 2013)

"Those are not run-of-the-mill repertoire choices, but surprises are to be expected from this conductor. Even in the current field of hotshot peers, the talent, skill, judgment, and courage that he shows make him very, very interesting." (Musical America, February 2013)

“In recent years the orchestra world has been galvanized by two exciting conductors in their 30s: Gustavo Dudamel and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Before long people may be talking about another conductor in that age bracket: the Spaniard Pablo Heras-Casado.” (New York Times, February 2013)

"He conducts the newest works at the highest level and in the most important places, and devotes himself to historically-informed performance of Mendelssohn symphonies with the same expertise. The conductor Pablo Heras-Casado – indebted to music itself, not showmanship, yet with a vibrant presence – is a musician of tomorrow." (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, ‘Best of 2012’, December 2012)

“Heras-Casado gave it [Schumann's Fourth Symphony] a stormy brilliance, from the moody gravitas and dynamic agitato of the first movement, through the ruminative Romanze, the muscular swagger of the Scherzo and the finale that impressed (rightly) as one great crescendo. The orchestra gave a confident, exciting performance, sparked by Heras-Casado's command and understanding of the work's overall structure.” (Houston Chronicle, October 2012)

"Here was a moment to prove it's not necessarily the case that "no man is a prophet in his own land". The young conductor emerged to conquer the world with orchestral works by Mendelssohn and Schubert. No baton, no scores." (El Pais, July 2012)

"Pablo Heras-Casado, musical director and the man of the evening. He impleneted the programme with incredible ease and accuracy, and what sensitivity he shows! There's no doubt the Spaniard with the lively curls will soon be among the best conductors in the world." (Der Tagesspiegel, June 2012)

"This was the kind of debut one always dreams about… The young Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado presented himself at the Philharmonie conducting the Berlin Philharmonic...he was a sensitive yet powerful conductor with extraordinary vision, whom the orchestra followed at first with cautious distance before throwing themselves into his arms. The resulting rapport quickly grew into perfection.” (Berliner Morgenpost, Oct 2011)

"He was sensational... Working without a score or a baton, Mr. Heras-Casado elicited regal grandeur in the Ouverture, genial sparkle in the inner dance movements and buoyant dash in the final Réjouissance." (The New York Times, August 2011)