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Second Prize at the Juventudes Musicales de España Conducting Competition (2025)
Born in Valencia, Javier Huerta Gimeno has developed his career as a conductor after an important activity as a cellist, notably serving as principal cello of the Staatskapelle Weimar (2018–2024).
In recent years he has conducted orchestras at both national and European level such as the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Jena Philharmonie, the Philharmonische Orchester des Landestheaters Coburg, the Hofer Symphoniker, the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau, the Orquesta de Extremadura, the Euskadiko Orkestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, the OSCyL Joven and the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, and he has served as chief conductor of the Orchester Göttinger Musikfreunde.
In the 2025–26 season he makes his debut with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Oviedo Filarmonía, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Orquesta Sinfónica de Radiotelevisión Española, Orquesta Sinfonica de Navarra and Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla. He has also collaborated as assistant to Jordi Francés on the project In Vain by Georg Friedrich Haas with the Joven Orquesta Nacional de España (JONDE), and served as his assistant in the production of Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók at the Ópera de Tenerife.
In the operatic field, he has taken part in productions such as The Flying Dutchman (Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar), El retablo de Maese Pedro (Auditorio de Tenerife), Così fan tutte (Landestheater Coburg), Don Giovanni (Hofer Symphoniker) and La bohème (Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau).
His career also includes symphonic-choral repertoire, conducting A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms at the Palau de la Música in Valencia, as well as Schicksalslied on an international tour.
Javier Huerta Gimeno was awarded Second Prize at the Juventudes Musicales de España Conducting Competition 2025. He was a student of the Zubin Mehta Chair of Orchestral Conducting at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, where he studied with Nicolás Pasquet, Jordi Francés and Miguel Ángel García Cañamero. He has been a recipient of the Aline Foriel-Destezet Scholarship and received from Her Majesty Queen Sofía the Diploma for the Most Outstanding Student of the Conducting Chair.
