Named among the Rising Stars of 2009 by Symphony Magazine, Robert Treviño has become an emerging force on the international music scene. Since his European debut in 2003 with the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra at age of 20, Robert has conducted orchestras and ensembles across North America, Europe, and Asia including the New York City Opera Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Chicago and Louisiana Philharmonics, the Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra, Suwon Philharmonic of South Korea, the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra, the Montpellier Orchestra National, the Ohio Light Opera, and the Ensemble Modern Academy Orchestra.

Robert is a lauréate of the 2010 Evgene Svetlanov International Conducting Competition, and was awarded the 2010 James Conlon Prize for Excellence in Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival and School. He also won a 2010 Career Assistance Award from the Sir Georg Solti Foundation US, and has been selected to be a featured conductor for the 2011 Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview with the Louisiana Philharmonic by the League of American Orchestras. Robert has conducted orchestral and operatic performances at both the Tanglewood Music Festival and Aspen Music Festival as a Conducting Fellow. As an avid advocate and performer of contemporary music, Robert has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Art.

Since 2009, Robert has been engaged as an Associate Conductor & Guest Conductor for the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center. With the New York City Opera he has given six world premieres of short operas as part of the annual VOX: American Opera Series and has been part of a new production each season most recently on Leonard Bernstein’s A Quiet Place. As a guest conductor, Robert made his debut with the Chicago Philharmonic where he has been asked to return in the 2011-12 season. In 2011, Robert will conduct a subscription week with both the East Texas Symphony Orchestra and the Macon Symphony Orchestra as a finalist for the position of Music Director.

Internationally in 2011, Robert will conduct the Gala Concert for the Slovene National Orchestra Maribor (Slovenia), and opera at the Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow, Russia). Robert has conducted the Orchestra National Montpellier in France (2010), the Ensemble Modern Academy Orchestra at the Klangspuren Festival in Schwaz, Austria (2008), and the Millennium Chamber Players at the Jusqu’aux Oreilles Festival in Montreal, Canada of the same year. In 2007, he was invited for a month long residency in Finland with the Helsinki Philharmonic, where he assisted Music Director Leif Segerstam with performances of the complete Symphonies of Sibelius, the Suwon Philharmonic, South Korea (2005), and in 2003 he conducted the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra, Germany.

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