José Luis Temes (Madrid, 1956) is one of the most outstanding conductors of his generation. Graduated from the Madrid Conservatory, he has been in charge of most of the Spanish orchestras, and several other European ones; he has directed in New York, Paris, Vienna, London, Milan, Rome, Budapest, Lisbon. He has published more than a hundred records and released some 340 works of contemporary music. In 2009, the Princes of Asturias presented him with the National Award
of Music "to the immense task of him as a conductor."