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Palm Beach Symphony’s “America’s New Voice” reviews:
Palm Beach Arts Paper: Palm Beach Symphony’s Season Opener at Four Arts
“Maestro Ramon Tebar conducted a night of popular music with a fresh bounce on the podium! [...]
Aaron Copland’s “Three Latin-American Sketches began [...] with sharp, cutting and staccato rhythms. The second movement was sensitive and lingering, shaped nicely by Maestro Tebar. Working hard in the last sketch, the strings and Percussionists outdid themselves. Conductor and orchestra were having fun.
Next followed Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings. Putting down his baton, Maestro Tebar led a golden interpretation bringing out the elegiac line as the strings sweep up to a climax: a deafening long pause, then the downward glide to a pianissimo ending. Who would be first to break the magic of the moment with applause? One could hear a pin drop. Cautiously the audience picked up on a well deserved ovation.
[...] In the third dance (Bernstein’s On the Town) Maestro Tebar was in his element, visibly dancing on the podium to Bernstein’s catchy tune ‘Wonderful Town’.”
Palm Beach Arts Paper
by Rex A. Hearn, December 17th, 2010
Palm Beach Daily News review:
“[...] the orchestra came alive in this work (Gershwin). Soloists, especially the clarinet, were convincingly jazzy, intense and expressive, and the wild dynamics of the orchestra were electrifying. Conductor Ramon Tebar, and the symphony, took the audience on a wild ride; [...] and this was clearly the evening’s highlight.
Leonard Bernstein’s On the Town: Three Dance Episodes sustained the excitement. One can only imagine the excitement that Jerome Robbins’ choreography might have added to the performance. The symphony and Tebar had great control of Lennie’s quirky, inventive and complex rythms, his soaring lyricism in the central slow dance and his wild orchestration.
The closing was an interesting choice. [...] Tebar left the podium for the performance (he played the glockenspiel passages), and the orchestra performed admirably on their own.”
Palm Beach Daily News
by Ken Keaton, December 17th, 2010
Florida Grand Opera’s Turandot press:
El Nuevo Herald, article:
Turandot, the “ice that burns” Ramon Tebar (in Spanish)
El Nuevo Herald
by Sebastian Spreng, November 7th, 2010
Florida Grand Opera opens season with lavish, richly sung Turandot:
“Much of the credit for the performance’s success lay in the pit, where the conductor Ramon Tebar drove the music and action forward all evening, providing a lot of the opera’s propulsive force. Rarely in recent years has the FGO orchestra provided such and energetic, technically polished performance. The orchestra brought out Puccini’s delicate colors and clanking pseudo-Chinese textures. The brass played tremendously the entire night, with weighted, shining tone that never become crude or overpowering at moments such as the riddle scene and the opera’s brassy ending.”
Sun-Sentinel
by David Fleshler, November 14th, 2010
Turandot, el lujo de la excelencia (in Spanish)
“This Turandot displays the magnificence of marvellous voices, amazing chorus and above all, Ramon Tebar’s masterly baton, who lead FGO’s orchestra to unforeseen brilliance.
Deservedly, what I want to emphasize first, is the wisdomness and sensitiveness of Tebar’s work that has disvested this beautiful opera from all “toscaninism”, giving to Turandot its legimitacy as a XX century masterwork. [...] Tebar non only stressed Puccini’s modernity, but he also kept in his pulse the beat of the whole production. Singers, chorus, actors, dancers, supers, everyone was wrapped in the music achieving a very lively and consistent vision. I have never seen in FGO an orchestra conductor receiving so much applause.”
Music in Miami
by Daniel Fernandez, November 14th, 2010
Grandiosa la version de Turandot por la FGO (in Spanish)
Diario Las Americas
by Ariel Remos, November 15th, 2010
FGO’s Turandot: Ridiculous and beautiful
“Ramon Tebar’s conducting is stately.
[...] Tebar conducts his orchestra with great feeling and warmth,...”
Miami New Times
by Brandon K. Thorp, November 16th, 2010
“Enthusiastic baton of conductor Ramon Tebar”
SFGN.com
by J.W. Arnold, November 16th, 2010
”Conductor Ramon Tebar led with drive and fire, and he had a first-rate orchestra to help him, a fine band that beautifully handled the wide and breadth of this fascinatintg score.”
Palm Beach Arts Paper
by Greg Stepanich, November 24th, 2010
Orquesta de Navarra concert review:
”Ramon Tebar did a great performance, beggining with a splendid Norma overture. [...] and the orchestra accompaniment was impeccable during the whole concert.”
Wordpress.com
by Xavier Armendariz, October 12, 2010
“Viva la Zarzuela!” reviews:
“The Oviedo Filarmonia Youth Orchestra exhibited a comforting interpretative passion thanks to the work of Ramon Tebar, talented conductor that takes Carlos Kleiber as a gestual model to obtain from the orchestra an interesting sonority tension.”
Codalario.com
by Aurelio M.Seco, July 26, 2010
“The premiere of “Viva la Zarzuela!” last friday had an spontaneous and splendid response for part of the public, it had the best thing in the musical part, in a way that has not been even up during the season of the Festival at the Spanish Lyric Theater. The Oviedo Filarmonia Youth Orchestra fully responded to the conducting of Ramon Tebar, in refined interpretations, worried for all the elements of the orchestral score and to the accompaniment of the different singers.”
La nueva Espana
by Diana Diaz, July 25, 2010
“There were good things, very good things. The vocal cast was spectacular, and Ramon Tebar’s musical direction was very precise and imaginative.”
Diario de Oviedo
by Alejandro Villalibre, July 31, 2010
“L’italiana in Algeri” debut with Turin’s Teatro Regio:
”...great success of L’italiana in Algeri. [...] Three hours of performance during which the public did not have the time to get bored thanks to the skillness of the protagonists and the Regio’s orchestra conducted by the young emerging talent, the spanish Ramon Tebar”.
Corriere di Savigliano
by Aldo Mano, July 8, 2010
“I Puritani” a Cagliari, reviews:
Luxurious couple of protagonists and exemplary conducting
“Sharp baton - The biggest surprise of I Puritani in Cagliari came from the podium of the conductor: thirty-year-old and in a fast ascendant career, Ramon Tebar is one conductor that finally seems to have understood for the first time that the bellinian score has one of the most beautiful instrumentations of the Italianan Romanticism [...] Tebar knows how to pull out the symphonic exuberance and the big palette of subtleties that we have always wished to hear. [...] Welcome, I repeat, the approach of Tebar overall in his conducting finesse.”
Gli amici della Musica
by Francesco Lora, July 12, 2010
”An important success for the Lirico’s production, the orchestra and chorus conducted under the baton of Tebar. A triumph. An undeniable success for I Puritani, the melodrama performed yesterday evening at the Comunale, conducted by the young and talented Tebar”
La Nuova Sardegna
by Gabrielle Balloi, June 1, 2010
“In the podium was Ramon Tebar [...] and the orchestra, with an extraordinary instrumental group, knowing how to sing with the needed expressivity, colors, dynamics during all three hours of the whole performance. The big merit is, to the contributions of Mariella Devia and John Osborn, as well as to the young conductor that intuitively conducted the opera in an overwhelming and volatile ballad, which changes in color between idyll, marchs, warlike impetus, dances and nocturnes.”
Roma
by Massimo Lo Iacono, June 2, 2010
“To sustain the group of voices in a very demanding roll, the orchestra and chorus of Cagliari was conducted by Ramon Tebar, whom carefully outlined an unitary speech around the splendid arias. A complex concertation that encloses all the characteristic elements of the italian lyric”.
L’Unione Sarda
by Greca Piras, June 2, 2010
“The young spanish conductor Ramon Tebar [...] sustains the voices with a mobile and flexible phrasing, ideal to highlight the singing.”
by Ilaria Bellini, May 31, 2010
Palm Beach Symphony, soloists, chorus in sync captures sound in Autrian Catholic tradition
“...a very fine evening of choral music.”
"As Ramon Tebar has several other times this season, whether in front of the symphony or the pit orchestra at Florida Grand Opera, Tebar led performances that were distinguished by their vigor, sharp dynamic contrasts and rich emotional colors."
"Everything sounded full and polished.[...] it sounded ferocious during the all-out sections of the Mass, such as the Gloria and the Osanna, and big and blankety during the hushed piety of the Sanctus."
"In Haydn, the orchestra sounded excellent throughout, and Tebar added interesting touches such as a slight delay as he reached the next step of an upward chromatic scale, and underlined his feeling for dynamics by crouching way down as he brought the combined forces through a quiet passage in the Et incarnatus dominated by a deep, snaky bass line. A first-rate performance, all told, and one that made a terrific argument for the power of Haydn as a writer of sacred music."
"In Bruckner, the bigger portions of this beautiful choral masterwork were very impressive, such as the granitic opening, which makes a mountain out of one rising whole step, and the gorgeousness of the Te ergo, with its commanding tenor writing and meltingly lovely harmonies. [...] the massiveness of the composer’s conception could clearly be heard as orchestra, soloists and chorus joined completely in his block-chord invocation to the higher power in which he so devoutly believed"
Palm Beach Daily News
by Greg Stepanich, April 12, 2010
Palm Beach Symphony’s ends season in Glory!
“The town presented a fine Palm Beach Symphony, under their distinguished conductor, Ramon Tebar in his element controlling vast forces, gave of their best...”
“Kudos to Maestro Tebar for putting his heart and soul conducting this piece, it came off very well..”
Southern Exposure
by Rex Alan Hearn, April 14, 2010
“The orchestra led by Spaniard Ramon Tebar is nearly flawless, injecting the power and pathos that Donizetti envisioned, notably the glittering harp solos in the first act and the flute echoing Lucia's call-and-response passages in the third act.”
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
By Bill Hirschman, January 25, 2010
“Musically the performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami was on a high level [...]. Under the baton of the young Spanish conductor Ramon Tebar, the orchestra gave a spirited, technically polished performance of Donizetti's music. Although the opera contains several difficult exposed passages for horns -- an area that has been the weak spot for FGO orchestras in the past -- the playing here was virtually flawless.”
Miami Herald
by David Flesher, January
Journal: El nuevo Heraldo
“Ramón Tébar’s orchestra conducting was impeccable and he achieved and unusual cleaniness in the horn section.”
by Daniel Fernandez
January 2010, El Nuevo Herald