Credit: Ivan Gonzalez

This week, José Salazar makes his LA Phil conducting debut, leading and hosting performances at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday 19 and Friday 20 March. Part of the orchestra’s ‘Symphonies for Schools Secondary’ series, these concerts welcome music students from across Los Angeles aged 11–18, offering free access to experience the LA Phil…Read more ›

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José Salazar will make his debut with New York City Ballet next week, conducting performances of ‘Balanchine + Ratmansky’. The triple bill pairs early works by the revered choreographer George Balanchine, ‘Serenade’ and ‘Prodigal Son’, set to music by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, with ‘Paquita’ by Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky, a tribute to the classic…Read more ›

December sees a number of JBM Artists taking to the stage for festive performances in the lead-up to Christmas and New Year, with artists playing, conducting, and presening at major venues in the UK and beyond. From 2nd to the 13th of December, José Salazar returns to Birmingham Royal Ballet to lead performances of The…Read more ›

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Today marks conductor José Salazar’s official debut with The Royal Ballet, leading the first of five performances of Frederick Ashton’s ‘La fille mal gardée’ over the next week. After two seasons as a Jette Parker Artist at the Royal Opera House, José is thrilled to return this season and looks forward to further performances of…Read more ›

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Beginning his 2025/26 season at the Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall, José is currently in the second week of his Dudamel Fellowship with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Over these two weeks, he has been working closely with leading conductors across a wide range of programmes: Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 with Christian Vasquez; Mozart’s Requiem with…Read more ›

Recently named a Classic FM Rising Star and appointed a Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor José Salazar now makes his debut with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Originally from Margarita Island, Salazar returns to his home country for this significant milestone, taking to the podium at the orchestra’s home venue, the Centro…Read more ›

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In the same week that he was included in Classic FM’s Rising Stars 2025 lineup, conductor José Salazar has now been announced as one of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2025/26 Dudamel Fellows. During the fellowship José will work closely with Gustavo Dudamel, the LA Philharmonic musicians, visiting artists and conductors, and students in LA Phil…Read more ›

Credit: Clive Barda

We are delighted to share that conductor José Salazar has been included in Classic FM’s list of ‘Rising Stars: 30 incredible musicians under 30’. Classic FM describes the list as an introduction to ‘30 incredible classical music artists under the age of 30 that we’re championing in 2025…Classical music continues to be pushed to new…Read more ›