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Pablo Druker is one of the most versatile and creative Argentinean conductors of his generation. He was principal conductor of the Orquesta Estable del Teatro Argentino de La Plata (2017/2020), conductor of the International Ensemble Modern Academy (2015/2016) and conductor and artistic director of the Mobile Beats Ensemble in Frankfurt (2016-2020). He is currently music director of the Ensamble Arthaus in Buenos Aires and musical and co-artistic director of Fresco's Project in Berlin.

Pablo has worked with internationally renowned orchestras and ensembles such as WDR-Sinfonieorchester, Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires, Neues Konzertorchester Berlin, Brno Contemporary Orchestra, Dinu Lipatti Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonisches Orchester Stadttheater Gießen, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble KNM Berlin, Synergy Vocals, The Riot Ensemble and Ensemble Lucilin, among others.

He has conducted the premieres of operas, symphonic and ensemble works, including the world premiere of Goebbels’ mit einem Namen aus einem alten Buch and the American premiere of Berio’s Un re in ascolto. In Argentina he conducted the first performance of Stravinsky’s Chant funèbre, Ligeti’s Violin Concerto, Bernstein’s Candide and many 20th century ensemble works such as Sciarrino’s Quaderno di strada, Reich’s Tehillim, Boulez´s sur Incises and Romitelli's Professor Bad Trip.

He was nominated best conductor of the year by the Association of Music Critics of Argentina (Buenos Aires – 2018) and second prize winner at the Arthur Nikisch Conducting Competition (Genova – 2020). He has also received an honorable mention at the Lanyi Conducting Competition (Subotica – 2021).

Pablo studied Orchestral Conducting at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes with Mario Benzecry and in Germany at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf under the tutelage of Rüdiger Bohn and at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst/IEMA Frankfurt, where he received valuable contributions from conductors such as Peter Rundel, Lucas Vis and Frank Ollu.

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