Alfredo Oyaguez Montero, Music Director

The newly appointed Music Director of the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony recently completed a Master of Music degree in Conducting with Professor Heiichiro Ohyama and is currently a Doctoral Candidate (DMA) in Piano Performance studying with Professor Paul Berkowitz at the University of California, at Santa Barbara (UCSB). He is the Associate Conductor and General Manager of the UCSB Symphony Orchestra and is a teaching assistant for the conducting department at the UCSB Department of Music.

A native of Spain, he graduated from the Madrid Royal Conservatory with a "High Degree in Music" and the "Piano Professor Diploma" where he studied with Professors Almudena Cano, Consuelo Mejias and Josep Colom. He spent three years in Poland and Czechoslovakia pursuing postgraduate studies at the "Frederic Chopin Music Academy" (Warsaw University) and the "Prague Fine Arts Academy" with pianists Andrej Stefansky, Ivan Moravec and Boris Krainj. At Yale, he earned a Masters degree, studying piano with Boris Berman.

A member of the Spanish Youth National Orchestra for four years, he performed as a soloist under English conductor Charles Peebles, and appeared with the Malaga City Symphony Orchestra under conductor Odon Alonso. He is a founding member of the "Isar Camara" Chamber Music Ensemble which has toured the United States, Spain and France and recently has been invited to perform several concerts in California featuring the Chamber Music of contemporary spanish composers.

Alfredo Oyaguez Montero with his symphony members

Professional positions have included Accompanying pianist at the Madrid State Conservatory, Associate Pianist for the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra and Production Manager of the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra.

First Prize Winner in the 1996 Santa Barbara Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation Competition, he has performed extensively in Europe and the United States as a soloist, recitalist, chamber music pianist and vocal accompanist. Recent engagements has taken him to Spain to perform a series of concerts dedicated to the complete works for piano by Spanish composer Oscar Espla.

He is currently a faculty member of the "Adriatic Chamber Music Festival" (Bonefro-Italy).

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