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Ramon Tebar (born 6 November 1978 in Valencia, Spain), born José Ramón Tebar Sáiz, is a Spanish pianist and orchestra conductor.

Recently appointed Music Director of Florida Grand Opera (Miami, US) and the Santo Domingo Music Festival’s Associate Conductor, Ramon Tebar becomes the first Spanish conductor to lead a major American Opera Company. He has also been appointed Music Director of Palm Beach Symphony becoming the youngest Spanish conductor taking charge of an American Symphony Orchestra. Since his arrival in the US in 2005, he has been part of the musical staff of Palm Beach Opera and Cincinnati Opera, working in around 30 opera productions, while maintaining a full schedule in Europe. He has recently been honored with the 2010 Henry C. Clark Conductor of the Year Award by Florida Grand Opera in Miami, Florida, US.

Among the highlights from last and next seasons are: Madame Butterfly, Italiana in Algeri, and La Boheme with Renata Scotto as stage director; a national broadcasted concert with Spanish Radio Television Orchestra returning for a Gala concert in 2011; Opening Night Gala Concert with Ben Heppner in Santo Domingo’s Music Festival, returning in 2011 and 2013; an Italian tour performing Puccini’s Messa di Gloria and a very successful new production of the Italian premiere of Iphigenie auf Tauris by Gluck in Richard Strauss’ revision in Martina Franca (Italy); Final Concert of Montserrat Caballe’s Competition; The Battleship Potemkin by Shostakovich in Kravis Center; a Zarzuela production in Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo; I Puritani with Mariella Devia in Cagliari; his debut in Teatro Regio di Torino with Italiana in Algeri, returning this season for Rigoletto; New York with La vida Breve and Goyescas; Lucia di Lammermoor with Florida Grand Opera where he is returned to open the season conducting Turandot; the New Year Gala Concert with Castilla y Leon Symphony Orchestra and concerts with Navarra Symphony Orchestra; debut in Russia conducting Montserrat Caballe with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra; two productions with Opera Sofia, Bulgary; tourne in Japan with Tosca, Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci in 2012; six subscription concerts with Palm Beach Symphony, with Holland Symphonia in Amsterdam and a symphonic concert in Rouen; Florencia en el Amazonas with Opera Colorado in Denver in 2012 and his first production as Music Director of FGO with La rondine.

He has also worked with orchestras like: Extremadura Symphony, Cordoba Symphony, Castilla y Leon Symphony, Navarra Symphony, City of Oviedo Symphony and Spanish Radio Television Orchestra in Spain; St. Petersburg Symphony, Ishjek Opera Orchestra, Lugansk Philharmonic, Pilsen Philharmonic; Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, Orchestra Sinfonica di Cagliari, Orchestra Sinfonica di Bari, Orchestra Teatro Regio of Turin and Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Italy; Miami Symphony Orchestra, Naples Symphony Orchestra, Palm Beach Symphony and the Miami Orchestra, in the United States.

He has performed with singers such as: Montserrat Caballe, Teresa Berganza, Ileana Cotrubas, Mariella Devia, Renata Scotto, Daniela Dessi, Ruth Ann-Swenson, Fabio Armiliato, and Dawn Upshaw, in theaters like the National Auditorium in Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Raymond Kravis Center, Music Hall of Cincinnati, Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, Kolner Philharmonie in Germany and Grand Hall Oktyabrsky in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Ramon Tebar began his conducting career at the age of fifteen, already in the opera world, as an assistant conductor and pianist in his home town. Later he started to conduct his first symphonic concerts and made his operatic debut soon after with Don Pasquale. In the meantime, he graduated with honors, Special Honor Award in Piano and Chamber Music Degrees, Bärenreiter Prize, Special Prize in the Musical Youth of Spain Competition, Medaille d´Honneur “Villa de Claira” (France) and an Award in the III International Conducting Competition “Luigi Mancinelli” (Italy). During this time, he studied under Luca Chiantore, while keeping in touch with some of the greats artists worlwide like Rostropovich, Labeque sisters, M. Maisky, R. Norrington, L. Berman, J. Achucarro, A. De Larrocha, and actually with Phillipe Entremont who is one of his most important mentors.

After winning a Competition for Conductors with Youth National Orchestra of Spain, he started to work as assistant conductor with the orchestra for two seasons. Since then, Tebar has shared his conducting activities between symphonic and operatic repertoire in Europe and United States.