Carmen Brito

Conductor

Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1976. He began his musical career under the

under the tutelage of his father, the composer Francisco Brito Báez.

Since 2002 she has been a violinist with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria.

Interested in the discipline of orchestral and choral conducting, she has been taught by

Antoni Ros Marbá, Karel Mark Chichon, Francesc Llongueres, Jordi Mora,

Digna Guerra, Johan Duijck, Nestor Andrenacci, among others.

He has conducted several amateur choirs in Gran Canaria (Haderech, Fernando Marrero Pulido,

Franbac, Radio Ecca...). In 2018 she undertook the direction of several works by Canarian composers, being

composers, being invited to direct the Composition Workshop of the Conservatorio Superior de Música de

Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias to assume the premiere of several works composed by the students of this centre.

of this centre.

In the field of orchestral conducting, she has conducted the "Stabat Mater" by her father Francisco Brito in a concert in homage to his father.

Brito in a tribute concert to the composer after his death. He has been in charge of

orchestra and band of the Inegale Summer Music Course since its 9th edition in 2018, held annually

in 2018, which is held annually at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Canary Islands. He has also conducted on several occasions ensembles of the Orquesta

Philharmonic Orchestra of Gran Canaria, as for instance the concert programmed by the OFGC

within the cycle OFGC 21 An orchestra for the island.

In the last few years he has broadened his training in orchestral conducting with the maestro

Miguel Romea as well as with maestro Andrés Salado. She has been assistant conductor to

Juanjo Mena in a programme of the 2020-2021 season of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife with the

Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife with cellist Pablo Ferrández. She has also assisted

K.M. Chichón with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria in a programme of the 2021-2022 season with cellist Pablo Ferrández.

2021-2022 season with pianist Rudolf Buchbinder. In 2021 she was invited to conduct the

Sapere Aude Sinfonietta at the 37th Zumaiako Musika Jaialdia, conducting an arrangement for chamber orchestra by Rosenkowski.

chamber orchestra of R. Strauss' Rosenkavalier by George Morton, which was a Spanish premiere.

a premiere in Spain.