Pedro Halffter Caro (born 1971 in

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) is a Spanish conductor and

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. He is Artistic Director of the

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(Seville). Born in Madrid, as the son of composer Cristóbal Halffter, he went to boarding school in Germany at the Schule Schloss Salem. After completing his German Abitur he studied conducting at the Hochschule für Musik in

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, receiving a degree in 1995. He has been the recipient of the Jugend musiziert Prize, Young Composers Prize of the Deutscher Musikrat (German Music Council, a member of the

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), Young Conductors Prize of the European Union, as well as grants from the Juventudes de Madrid and the Banco de España, and a

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for composition studies in New York.

Selected recordings

Pedro HalffterLas Campanas de Gran Canaria

Notes and references

{{DEFAULTSORT:Halffter, Pedro 1971 births Spanish male conductors (music) Spanish composers Musicians from Madrid University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna alumni Living people 21st-century Spanish conductors (music) 21st-century Spanish male musicians Spanish male musicians Alumni of Schule Schloss Salem