ENRIQUE GARCIA ASENSIO

Born in Valencia (Spain), Enrique Garcia Asensio has studied violin, chamber music, harmony, counterpoint and composition at the Royal Music Conservatory of Madrid. At the age of 11 he begins his career as a violinist in the orchestra of the Conservatory, in which he later becomes a concert maestro and a conductor.

He conducted almost all orchestras in Spain. Enrique Garcia Asensio also conducted in France, Russia, England, Germany, Italy, Austria, Denmark, Slovakia, The Czech Republic, Ireland, Romania, Bulgaria, Portugal, Iceland, Greece, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Canada, United States of America, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Argentine, Uruguay, Dominican Republic, Brazil and South Africa.

Enrique Garcia Asensio was Sergiu Celibidache's assistant at the international conducting classes in Bologna (Italy), Munich (Germany), as well as in the Chigiana Academy of Sienna, Italy. At the Academy of Sienna he participated in all the classes taught by Celibidache (1960, 1961, 1962 and 1963) and he won in the last year the award “The Best Student of the Class”, offered by the Rotary Club of Sienna.

He has taught conducting classes abroad, in Santo Domingo (the Dominican Republic), Kerkrade (Holland), Iasi and Bucharest (Romania). In Spain, he is a professor of Orchestral Conducting at the Royal Higher Conservatory of Music of Madrid since 1970, and for 7 years he has also taught at the Music High-school in the Vasc district in San Sebastian. He has also held Conducting Masterclasses in Toledo, Madrid, Valencia, Granada, Cuenca, Liria, Bunol, Cullera, Villarreal, Nules, Segorbe, Benicasim, Vall d’Uixo, Montroz, Algar del Palancia, Pinoso, Olleria and Villafranca de los Barros.

Enrique Garcia Asensio has declared on numerous occasions that Maestro Sergiu Celibidache was to him like a second father. In addition, he mentions that “the day he met Celibidache, it was like winning the lottery”.

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