We are thrilled to welcome conductor Lina Gonz\u00e1lez-Granados to our roster for world-wide general management. She will be represented by Julijana Mijalkovi\u0107 and Jenny Vogel in our Los Angeles office.<\/p>\n
Gonz\u00e1lez-Granados stated, “I am honored and delighted to become part of the Opus 3 family. This represents the start of a new chapter in my professional life. Jenny, Julijana, and the whole Opus 3 team have shown how caring and dedicated they are to ensuring my continued and growing success in this field. With their backing and support, I feel my present and future is looking very bright.”<\/p>\n
Mijalkovi\u0107 stated, \u201cFrom the first time I saw Lina on the podium, I felt an instant connection to her artistry and musicianship. I am very excited to be working alongside Lina in this new phase of her career.\u201d<\/p>\n
Praised for her \u201crich, heartfelt orchestral sound\u201d (Chicago Sun-Times<\/em>), \u201crhythmic vitality\u201d (San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>) and \u201craw power\u201d (LA Times<\/em>), Colombian-American Lina Gonzalez-Granados has distinguished herself nationally and internationally as a singularly-talented young conductor. Her powerful interpretations of the symphonic and operatic repertoire, as well as her dedication to highlighting new and unknown works by Latin-American composers, have earned her international recognition, most recently being named part of Bloomberg L\u00ednea\u2019s 100 Influential Latinos of 2022. She is also the recipient of the 2021 Sphinx Medal of Excellence, the Third Prize and ECHO Special Award (European Concert Hall Organization) of La Maestra Competition, as well as the 2020 and 2021 Solti Foundation US Career Assistance Award.<\/p>\n After winning the Fourth Chicago Symphony Orchestra Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition, Lina was named the Solti Conducting Apprentice, and served as the assistant to Maestro Riccardo Muti, from February 2020 through June 2023. Last season, she was appointed Resident Conductor by the LA Opera, a post she will hold through June 2025. She has also previously held positions as the Inaugural Conducting Fellow of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Conducting fellow of the Seattle Symphony.<\/p>\n Born and raised in Cali, Colombia, Lina made her conducting debut in 2008 with the Youth Orchestra of Bellas Artes. She holds a Master\u2019s Degree in Conducting with Charles Peltz, a Graduate Diploma in Choral Conducting from New England Conservatory with Erica Washburn, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestral Conducting from Boston University. Her principal mentors include Riccardo Muti, Yannick N\u00e9zet- S\u00e9guin, Bernard Haitink, Bramwell Tovey, and Marin Alsop.<\/p>\n Learn more about\u00a0Lina Gonz\u00e1lez-Granados<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are thrilled to welcome conductor Lina Gonz\u00e1lez-Granados to our roster for world-wide general management. She will be represented by Julijana Mijalkovi\u0107 and Jenny Vogel in our Los Angeles office. Gonz\u00e1lez-Granados stated, “I am honored and delighted to become part of the Opus 3 family. This represents the start of a new chapter in my … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3613,7280,3955,3956],"class_list":["post-12357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conductor","tag-lina-gonzalez-granados","tag-roster","tag-signing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12359,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12357\/revisions\/12359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/12252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}