The Valencia Orchestra is a Valencia

Valencian Community

The Valencian Community is an autonomous community of Spain located in central and south-eastern Iberian Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Valencia...

 Spanish

Spain

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 symphony orchestra based in Valencia. It was founded in 1943 as the Valencia Municipal Orchestra. It is a member of the Spanish Association of Symphony Orchestras (AEOS).

The orchestra, which first performed abroad in 1950 under José Iturbi

José Iturbi

José Iturbi was a Spanish conductor, harpsichordist and pianist. He appeared in several Hollywood films of the 1940s, notably playing himself in the 1943 musical, Thousands Cheer and in the 1945 film, Anchors Aweigh...

 has begun to regularly tour internationally in recent years. It mainly performs at the city's Palau de la Música.

Principal Conductors

• Joan Lamote de Grignon
  Joan Lamote de Grignon
  Joan Lamote de Grignon i Bocquet , was a Catalan Spanish pianist, composer and orchestra director.Joan Lamote de Grignon was born and died in Barcelona, the son of parents of French descent Lluis Lamote de Grignon and Elena Bocquet. In 1911 he founded the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, of which he...
  
   (1943-49)
• Hans von Benda
  Hans von Benda
  Hans von Benda was a German conductor.A direct descendant of the eighteenth-century composer Franz Benda, he had the misfortune to operate in the shadow of better-known Teutonic maestri of his generation, notably Wilhelm Furtwängler, Otto Klemperer, and Hans Knappertsbusch...
  
  
• Napoleone Annovazzi
• Heinz Unger
• José Iturbi
  José Iturbi
  José Iturbi was a Spanish conductor, harpsichordist and pianist. He appeared in several Hollywood films of the 1940s, notably playing himself in the 1943 musical, Thousands Cheer and in the 1945 film, Anchors Aweigh...
  
  
• Enrique García Asensio
  Enrique García Asensio
  Enrique García Asensio is a Spanish conductor. In 1970, he was made as Professor of Orchestral Conducting at the Madrid Royal Conservatory. He was the conductor of the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra from 1966 to 1984 and from 1998 to 2001...
  
   (1964-65)
• Pedro Pírfano
• Luis Antonio García Navarro
  Luis Antonio García Navarro
  Luis Antonio García Navarro , was a Spanish conductor.-Biography:García Navarro was born in Chiva, Valencia , and studied in Valencia and the Madrid Royal Conservatory before moving to Vienna to study at the University of Music and Performing Arts with Hans Swarowsky, Karl Oesterreicher, and...
  
   (1970-74)
• Lorenzo Martínez Palomo
• Benito Lauret
• Manuel Galduf
  Manuel Galduf
  Manuel Galduf is a Spanish Orchestra Conductor.-Career:Galduf studied at the Valencia Musical University School and undertook postgraduate education with Volker Wangenheim and Igor Markevitch...
  
   (1983-1997)
• Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez
  Miguel Angel Gómez Martínez
  Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez is a Spanish conductor.-External links:**...
  
   (1997-2005)
• Yaron Traub
  Yaron Traub
  Yaron Traub is an Israeli conductor and pianist.Throughout the 90s he served as Daniel Barenboim's assistant at the Bayreuth Festival and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. After being prized at the 1998 Kirill Kondrashin Competition, Traub has internationally active as a guest conductor before he...
  
  (2005- )