JoSe Luis Gomez
“Jose Luis Gomez. Remember that name. This Venezuelan-born conductor is the real deal. And I daresay I’ve had a lifetime training in detecting real-deal conductors. Maestro Gomez seemed to contain the entire Kaddish score inside his body; I never heard a more rhythmically visceral performance.”
Video summary conducting the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Spain. April 2024.
Short summary from performance with Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Sir Stephen Hough. November 2022.
“Throughout the conductor and the orchestra were so intrinsically in sync that they seemed like a long married couple that finishes one another’s sentences. By the end of the symphony, Gomez needed only shrug a shoulder or turn towards the musicians to get them to respond with glorious results. ”
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"The star of the show was conductor José Luis Gómez, who led a richly detailed, sensitive performance, supporting the singers and finding authentic delicacy in this familiar score."
Heidi Waleson, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
“(Gomez) drew a performance of energy, clarity and vigour from the players, who already have a great pedigree in Shostakovich. The opening string recitative dripped with vibrato, pregnant with expectation, and throughout there was a clear narrative edge to the sound, be it in the bite of the violins in the faster passages or the skirl of the woodwinds as they strained at the leash.”
“The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is at its finest with Jose Luis Gomez conducting”
Rita Kohn, Nuvo
“…a high quality musical performance, under the leadership of Jose Luis Gomez … from the beautiful performance of the overture, conducted with a lightness of phrasing and a variety of colours, it was obvious that we were facing a baton of great talent … really top-notch conducting.”
“The musical part could have suffered from the plurality of the components involved but we must credit José Luis Gomez for having been able to excellently amalgamate the complexites in a homogeneous and well harmonized reading. Gomez does not limit himself to maintaining a good balance between the parts, he manages to make the heterogeneous team play with propriety, capturing the right character of each picture. On an expressive level we appreciate a modern and clean direction that does not indulge in easy sentimentality while not lacking abandonment.”
“The highlight, though, was a super performance of El Amor Brujo, which vibrated with atmosphere and effective scene painting, including a darkly atmospheric picture of the cave scene, shuddering with dark strings, and revolving around a high octane ‘Ritual Fire Dance’. The whole thing had an impressive sense of building momentum to it, controlled and released by Gomez as effectively as it was realised by the orchestra, but it also featured a lovely lilt in the ‘Dance of the Game of Love’, building to a blooming string swell in the finale”
Simon Thompson, Seen and Heard International
“The Tenerife Symphony, offered a solo performance of the preludes to La revoltosa, La del manojo de Rosas and Agua, Azucarillos y Aguardiente, in addition to the interludes of La Leyenda del Beso and La boda de Luis Alonso , always under the direction of José Luis Gómez, who made his debut at Ópera de Tenerife; with important presence despite his youth that demonstrated his versatility in rhythms and other interpretive details.
“…the night was transfixing. The NSO layered sound beautifully, Yo-Yo Ma, D’Rivera,and Yang infused their energy into every note, and Gomez connected the audience to the depth of the music…a brilliant program.“
“Also the conducting of maestro José Luis Gomez, another strong point of the show, gives, at the head of the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, a performance that is very attentive to the stage, balanced and fluid in the difficult second act, where he keeps the ASLICO Choir, the children's choir of the Teatro Sociale of Como, the Oleggio Philharmonic Band and all the soloists with control and great skill, but also knows how to find the right expressive colors for each scene, giving fluidity to the melody, animating it with feeling without over indulgence and with stringent theatrical concreteness"
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