Diego Naser

Outstanding Italian-Uruguayan director, he has directed major ballet and opera productions such as Consecration of Spring, Carnival of the Animals, Pedro and the Wolf, El Quijote del Plata, Carmina Burana, La Sylphide, the premiere in Spain, after 220 years , from the lost opera by F. Sor Telémaco nell ‘Isola di Calipso and Madama Butterfly, as well as symphonic concerts in Mexico, Luxembourg, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Panama, Austria, Portugal, Germany, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Spain, among others.

He was musical and artistic director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Uruguay, achieving historic seasons, collaborating with artists such as Pinchas Zukerman, Amanda Forsyth, Gustavo Núñez, Norma Aleandro, Francesca Dego, Carlo Ventre, Michael Barenboim, etc.

His recording of new pieces for guitar by the Italian composer Simone Iannareli, conducting the Murcia Symphony Orchestra with Alex Garrobé, was acclaimed in Spain. He was a violist in ensembles such as the Kiel Philharmonic, the Hamburg Camerata, the Hamburg Radio Orchestra NDR, the violinist of the Vienna Chamber Philharmonic and the West Eastern Divan Orchestra of maestro Daniel Baremboim, performing at the main music festivals in the world. such as the Salzburg Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Waldbühne in Berlin and the BBC Proms in London.

Since 2021 he is an itinerant visiting professor of Orchestral Conducting, Violin and Viola at El Sistema de Venezuela. Maestro Naser was recently appointed as a member of the jury of the first international Hans von Bülow Orchestral Conducting Competition, in Europe, as well as resident guest conductor of the Orchestra of the Americas based in Washington D.C.