BIOGRAPHY 

Josep Gil studied at the Estonian Music and Theatre Academy (Tallinn), where he completed a Master’s Degree in Orchestral Conducting and a Master’s Degree in Choral Conducting with Professor Toomas Kapten. 

He has worked as an assistant conductor in the following institutions: Opera Royal de Wallonie, Radio Philarmonie Saarbrücken, Teatro Municipale Giuseppe Verdi di Salerno, Les Arts de Valencia, El Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona, Teatro Real de Madrid, and the National Choir and Orchestra of Spain. 

He has also assisted maestros such as Gustavo Dudamel, James Gaffigan and Gustavo Gimeno. 

As an opera conductor, his debut in 2021 at El Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona with “Lucia di Lammermoor”, by Donizetti, stands out. In the 2021/22 season, he made his debut in the German theatre at the Komische Oper Berlin, with the opera “Orphée aux Enfers”, by Offenbach. He has also conducted operas such as Donizetti's “l'Elisir d'Amore”, Mozart's “Così Fan Tutte” and “Le Nozze di Figaro” and Gerónimo Giménez's zarzuela “El Barbero de Sevilla”. His operatic repertoire has more than 25 titles, and in the 2023/24 season he will be a guest conductor at the Komische Oper Berlin.

In the field of oratorios, Josep has conducted Mozart's “Requiem” and “Coronation Mass”, Beethoven's “Mass in C Major”, Rossini's “Stabat Mater” and Puccini's “Messa di Gloria”. 

In the symphonic genre, some of his significant participations as a guest conductor were with the Simfònica del Vallés at the Palau de la Música Catalana and with the Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra at the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus.