Conductor and violinist Roberto González-Monjas has rapidly made an international name for himself. He is known for his compelling artistic vision, remarkable charisma and boundless energy. Since 2021 he is chief conductor of Musikkollegium Winterthur in Switzerland, since the 2023/24 season he is music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia and since September 2024 he is chief conductor of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. He has also been named honorary conductor of the Swedish Dalasinfoniettan, which he directed for four years.
Highlights of the 2025/26 season with the Mozarteum Orchestra included a new production of Die Zauberflöte for the Salzburg Mozartwoche Festival and the world premiere of Christian Jost’s Vibraphone Concerto. He also conducted performances of Così fan tutte at the Zurich Opera House and of Mozart’s Requiem with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, made his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and returned to the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse with Stéphane Degout and to the Oslo Philharmonic and the Hong Kong Philharmonic with Mao Fujita.
Roberto González-Monjas began his career as a solo violinist, orchestra leader and chamber musician; he was concert master of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and worked with Musikkollegium Winterthur.
He performs regularly at the festivals of Salzburg, Grafenegg, Lucerne, Verbier and Lockenhaus, and has collaborated with singers and instrumentalists including Kit Armstrong, Lisa Batiashvili, Ian Bostridge, Joyce DiDonato, Hilary Hahn, Alexandre Kantorow, Jan Lisiecki, Andreas Ottensamer, Fazıl Say, András Schiff, Yeol Eum Son and Yuja Wang.
As a soloist with the Berlin Baroque Soloists he recorded Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos under Reinhard Goebel. As the conductor of Musikkollegium Winterthur he has demonstrated his versatility through works by Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, Prokofiev, Schoeck and Tarrodi. Following the international acclaim of his debut album with the Mozarteum Orchestra, Mozart Serenades, in 2026 they released a complete recording of Mozart’s violin concertos, also on the Berlin Classics label.
A passionate educator, he co-founded the Iberacademy in Colombia with the conductor Alejandro Posada, to train and promote talented young musicians.
Roberto González-Monjas was born in Valladolid and studied at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where today he teaches as a violin professor and regularly conducts the Guildhall School Chamber and Symphony Orchestras at the Barbican Hall in London.
He plays a 1710 Giuseppe Guarneri filius Andreae violin, kindly loaned to him by five Winterthur families and the Rychenberg Foundation.
