ADDA SIMFÒNICA ALICANTE
JOSEP VICENT, Principal Conductor
Wagner, El anillo sin palabras (arr. Lorin Maazel)
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ADDA SIMFÒNICA ALICANTE
Nominated for the GRAMMY® and Latin GRAMMY®
Twice awarded by the Academy of Music of Spain
The permanent symphony orchestra of the “Fundación de la Comunitat Valenciana – ADDA”, and at the same time the resident orchestra of the Auditorio de la Diputación de Alicante, it has swiftly become an important part of Spanish musical life since its creation in 2018. Surrounded by the light of the Mediterranean coast, ADDA·SIMFÒNICA ALICANTE stands out for its unique sonic personality, a reflection of its founder and chief conductor Josep Vicent. An “author’s orchestra” capable of awakening emotion and inspiration in every concert.
Its regular season combines high-level symphonic series with world-renowned artists, together with international projects such as the recent Asian tour (double concert at Suntory Hall in Tokyo and Osaka), the Christmas Concert at the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, staged productions at the Ljubljana and Berlioz festivals, and upcoming debuts in Budapest and Sofia.
The orchestra innovates through stylistic versatility, the talent of its musicians, and social commitment: educational and staged activities, concerts in care homes, social centres, and hospitals. Its renewing hallmark can be seen in its interpretation of the music of our time, world premieres, and staged productions with Emilio Sagi or La Fura dels Baus (El amor brujo, Carmen, La Bohème, La Creación, Carmina Burana, Pastoral for the Planet). Also noteworthy are the Symphonic Jazz of the “Chick Corea Symphony Tribute” project and the complete audiovisual version of Stravinsky’s ballets.
Its discographic and audiovisual output (Warner Classics, Aria Classics, Parma Recordings, Discmedi, IMM Klassik) has received four Melómano de Oro awards, and multiple GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY nominations. Renowned artists such as Valery Gergiev, María João Pires, Javier Perianes, Paquito D’Rivera, Pablo Sainz-Villegas, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Denis Kozhukhin, and Joaquín Achúcarro have left their mark on its stages.
With its unstoppable artistic trajectory, critics define it as “a world-class instrument that spreads enthusiasm, with an energy and a sound within the reach of very few orchestras”; ADDA·SIMFÒNICA ALICANTE and its chief conductor Josep Vicent have become an essential cultural brand of their territory.
JOSEP VICENT
Josep Vicent is the founding Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of ADDA Simfònica, as well as Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Argovia Philharmonic in Switzerland. He has developed an extensive and highly personal creative activity as Music Director with La Fura dels Baus and Carlus Padrissa since 2014, Resident Conductor of the Berlioz Festival in France since 2024, Associate Music Director of the Ljubljana Festival since 2015, and alongside Guy Caron of Cirque du Soleil.
Nominated multiple times for the GRAMMY®️ and Latin GRAMMY®️ Awards, he is a two-time winner of the Spanish Academy of Music Award. He has received the Jeunesses Musicales Award, the “City of Valencia” Arts Award, the Oscar Esplà Award, the IMPORTANTES Award from Prensa Ibérica, Cadena COPE’s Culture Award, the MIN Award for Best Classical Album, and the Melómano de Oro Award on five occasions.
Josep Vicent is today a renowned maestro with an outstanding international career, with projects, recordings, tours and programmes leading: the London Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony Orchestra Miami, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Radio Metropole Orkest, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Residentie Orkest, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Paris Chamber Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquestra de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Zuid-Nederland Philharmonie, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, WDR, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonie, Slovak Philharmonic, Oulu Symphony Orchestra Finland, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta de Valencia, Sinfónica de Milán, La Toscanini, as well as the national symphony orchestras of Belgium, Chile and Brazil, among many others.
He regularly collaborates with classical, jazz and hybrid soloists such as Pinchas Zuckerman, Fazil Say, Patrick Messina, Sainz Villegas, Paquito D’Rivera, Maria João Pires, Joe Alessi, Katia & Marielle Labèque, Joaquín Achúcarro, Kozhukhin, Floristán, Antonio Serrano, Leticia Moreno, Ramón Vargas and Plácido Domingo.
Josep Vicent has led productions at prestigious theatres and festivals around the world, including the Rouen Opera, Teatro Colón, Teatro Real in Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Théâtre de La Monnaie in Brussels —with the production of Manuel de Falla’s Retablo de Maese Pedro in celebration of Spain’s European Capital of Culture—, Leipzig Opera, Mariinsky Theatre, La Maestranza and Teatro Arriaga (Massenet, Rossini, Poulenc, Montsalvatge…). His most personal projects, including Carmen by Bizet with Emilio Sagi, García Lorca, Romeo & Juliet, El amor brujo and Chick Corea, have toured several countries.
Previously, he was Artistic Director of the APG/Xenakis Festival, Principal Conductor of the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra, and Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of The World Orchestra of Jeunesses Musicales for 15 years, with which he undertook extensive tours across four continents. For his charitable and social work in Africa and Asia, as well as for his concerts around the world —including four appearances at the Berlin Philharmonie—, he was appointed Ambassador of the Culture of Peace Foundation by Federico Mayor Zaragoza (UNESCO).
His crossover projects have consolidated a style of his own and opened up new aesthetic pathways. Numerous composers have written dedicated repertoire for him. In 2026/27 he will premiere music by Tan Dun, Fazil Say, David del Puerto, Albert Guinovart, and many others.
With ADDA Simfònica, in an exceptional career trajectory, he maintains an intense schedule with tours in Germany, Spain, France and Japan. Following the recent nine-concert tour, including double performances in Osaka and Tokyo, he will return to Japan in 2028.
His extensive discography is available on Deutsche Grammophon, Aria Classics and Warner Classics. His latest album, released in 2025, was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra and Venezuelan cellist Gregorio Nieto, as well as the album Brahms/Berio with Patrick Messina and ADDA Simfònica.
The city of Alicante has appointed him “Cultural Ambassador”.
