About this Artist

Roberto González-Monjas is a natural musical leader with an abundance of energy, enthusiasm, and fierce intelligence. He is Chief Conductor of the Musikkollegium Winterthur in Switzerland, and Music Director of the Galicia Symphony Orchestra in Spain. In addition, Roberto is Principal Guest Conductor of the Belgian National Orchestra and Artistic Director of Iberacademy in Colombia. The Dalasinfoniettan in Sweden named him Honorary Conductor following a four-year tenure as their Chief Conductor.

Highlights of the 24/25 season include Strauss’ Eine Alpensinfonie in London, Salzburg and Galicia; the European première of Hannah Kendall’s “He stretches out the north” with the Musikkollegium Winterthur; a Spanish tour with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia; appearances at the Mozartwoche, Salzburg and Verbier Festivals; as well as the recording of Mozart’s complete Violin Concertos with the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg.

Across the 24/25 season, Roberto debuts with the Baltimore Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic and Orchestre de Paris, and returns to the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris.

Roberto began his career as a solo violinist, orchestral leader, and chamber musician. Roberto frequently collaborates with singers and instrumentalists including Joyce DiDonato, Rolando Villazón, Ian Bostridge, Andrè Schuen, Hilary Hahn, Lisa Batiashvili, Clara-Jumi Kang, Andreas Ottensamer, Fazil Say, András Schiff, Jan Lisiecki, Kirill Gerstein, Yeol Eum Son, Paul Lewis, Kit Armstrong, Steven Isserlis, and Emmanuel Ceysson.  

“Mozart Serenades,” Roberto’s newest CD recording with the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg for Berlin Classics, has garnered international praise since its release in Summer 2023. His recordings with the Musikkollegium Winterthur feature works by Mozart, Beethoven, Prokofiev, and Saint-Saëns.

Roberto served as concertmaster of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for six years and as the leader of the Musikkollegium Winterthur until summer 2021. He plays a 1710 Giuseppe Guarnieri ‘filius Andreae’ violin kindly loaned to him by five Winterthur families and the Rychenberg Stiftung.