Natalia Luis-Bassa
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| Born | July 13, 1966 Caracas, Venezuela |
Natalia Luis-Bassa ( July 13, 1966, Caracas, Venezuela) is currently Principal Conductor of the Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra and the Haffner Orchestra in Lancaster. Since winning the second prize at the Maazel-Vilar Conductor’s Competition in New York, she has worked both in the UK and abroad with orchestras including the Orquesta Sinfónica Venezuela, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Paragon Ensemble, Bombay Chamber Orchestra, Filamónica Nacional, and Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra.
Luis-Bassa began her musical studies at the age of 15, when she studied oboe at the Orquesta Juvenil de Venezuela. She read music at the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Musicales, where she was appointed music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Falcón. She completed her studies at the Royal College of Music, London and held the RCM Junior Fellowship in Opera Conducting for two years.
Natalia is currently studying her Master's Degree at The University of Huddersfield
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Conductor Natalia Luis-Bassa certainly put the Phil through its paces in an all-American programme that made massive technical demands. The concerto also made heavy demands on the orchestra but the astute Luis-Bassa steered them through it well. Huddersfield Daily Examiner. February 2007
Natalia Luis-Bassa, conducting the Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra, opened the season in splendid style on Saturday. Natalia Luis-Bassa built up the excitement steadily but impressively, with heady brass, quirky bassoon and and staccato strings all making distinctive contributions. Huddersfield Daily Examiner. November 2006
The impressive ability of their conductor Natalia Luis-Bassa to hold all the bits together. Luis-Bassa certainly knows how to drive her orchestra to maximum response, whether through Gershwin's smoky Latin Quarter moods or the exuberance of Tchaikovsky's geographically-diverse Swan Lake dances. [Yorkshire]] Post. April 2006
Conductor Natalia Luis-Bassa grows in stature. She has improved Huddersfield Philharmonic's attack and ensemble and she is able to shape and phrase the music. Huddersfield Daily Examiner. April 2006
In her time as musical Director, Natalia Luis-Bassa has not been afraid to push the musicians to the height of their capabilities and those have grown over the past few performances to a point where even the orchestra might be surprised. Lancaster Guardian, July 2005
Her direction of Mahler’s First Symphony maintained to the end its highly charged energy, its skillfully graded dynamics, its well judged tempo changes and overall structural phrasing magnificently Luis Bassa brought the orchestra to the peak of his form in a magnificent and enterprising programme. Yorkshire Post, April 2005
The Venezuelan made waves at her first concert with the orchestra last autumn, prompting members of the audience to commend her “The Haffner were always good, but with new conductor Natalia, they are superb” The Westmorland Gazette, January 2005
Her clear and expressive beat and vivacious platform manner made an immediate mark in Elgar’s Cockaigne Overture. Huddersfield Daily Examiner. February 2004
…Peter Maxwell Davies’ ‘Eight Songs for a Mad King’ with the Paragon Ensemble was incisively conducted by Natalia Luis-Bassa. The Herald. Glasgow, February 2003
