Highly sought after both as a conductor and as a violinist, Roberto González-Monjas has rapidly made an international name for himself. Since 2021 he is chief conductor of Musikkollegium Winterthur in Switzerland, since the 2022/23 season he is principal guest conductor of the Belgian National Orchestra, 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 2024/25 season include(d) Strauss’s Alpensinfonie in Lon-don, Salzburg and Galicia, the European premiere of Hannah Kendall’s He stretches out the north with Musikkollegium Winterthur, a tour with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, performances at the Mozartwoche, the Salzburg Festival and the Verbier Festival and a recording of the complete Mozart Violin Concertos with the Mozarteum Orchestra.
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 works frequently with singers and instrumentalists including Kit Armstrong, Lisa Batiashvili, Ian Bostridge, Joyce DiDonato, Hilary Hahn, Clara-Jumi Kang, Alexandre Kantorow, Jan Lisiecki, Andreas Ottensamer, Fazıl Say, András Schiff, Andrè Schuen and Yeol Eum Son.
As a soloist with the Berliner Barock Solisten (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. His most recent recording with the Mozarteum Orchestra is the 2023 album Mozart Serenades.
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 also serves as a violin professor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama 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.
