Winner of the Princess of Girona Award for Arts and Letters, Principal and Artistic Director of the Extremadura Orchestra, and an active cultural promoter, Andrés Salado is one of the most interesting, versatile, and engaging orchestra conductors of his generation.
He conducts almost all Spanish orchestras and many foreign ones: the National Orchestra of Spain, the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville, the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra (Lucerne Festival), the Symphony Orchestra of the Valencian Community, the RTVE Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano, the Symphony Orchestra of Castilla y León, the Mexico City Philharmonic, the Symphony Orchestra of Galicia, the Symphony Orchestra of Barcelona and National of Catalonia, the Royal Philharmonic of Galicia, the Valencia Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Tenerife, Bilbao, Euskadi, the Balearic Islands, Navarra, etc., participating in different international music festivals, premiering works by composers of different generations.
His operatic activity has led him to acquire a broad and varied repertoire: Macbeth (Verdi), Il segreto di Susanna (Wolf Ferrari), The Telephone (Menotti), La serva padrona (Pergolesi), Norma (Bellini), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), El martirio de San Sebastián (Debussy), and La Traviata (Verdi), which he recently conducted at the Teatro Calderón in Valladolid.