Mario García Ramos (1997) is a Spanish conductor and pianist based in Oslo and Zurich, an active member from 2021 until 2023 of the elite national program for conductors Dirigentforum, Talent Norge in Norway.
In February 2023 he obtained 3rd place in the first national competition for young directors in Spain (Musical Youth of Spain 1st edition) conducting one of Spain’s most renowned orchestras, Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon in Valladolid.
García Ramos began his studies at the Toledo Jacinto Guerrero professional conservatory at an early age. He completed the professional degree with honors, mentions and awards. Later he moved to Salamanca to study piano with Patrín García Barredo at the Coscyl (higher music conservatory of Castilla y León). As a pianist he has played in Germany, Poland and Spain and recorded an album with ORCAM viola soloist Iván Martin Mateu (Atitlán, Youkali music). His recordings have been played on Spanish national radio on classical radio.
García Ramos moved to Oslo in 2017 where he studied at the Norges Musikkhøgskole (Norwegian National Music Academy) with Professor Ole Kristian Ruud and finished his degree in Orchestral Conducting in 2022 playing as a soloist and conducting at the same time a Beethoven Program that includes the triple concerto. As a solo conductor he has conducted and performed concertos by Mozart and Beethoven conducting from the piano with various ensembles in Norway.
Despite his young age, García Ramos has conducted the most important professional orchestras in Norway, such as the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, the Hærens Musikkorps, the Norwegian National Military Band, the Oslo Chamber Orchestra and musicians of the Oslo Philharmonic and Norwegian National Opera (Opera).
In 2021, he won one place in the elite national program for Norwegian professional conductors, the Dirigentløftet's Dirigentforum in a competition with the Trondheim Philharmonic.
He received classes from great teachers such as Vasily Petrenko, Nicolai Schneider, Nicolás Pasquet, Johannes Schlaefli, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Michael Halls, Jorma Panula and Sakari Oramo among others.
Currently, García Ramos is studying a master's degree in conducting at the Zurich University of the Arts with professors Johannes Schlaefli and Cristoph-Mathias Mueller and frequently conducts professional orchestral groups in Norway and Switzerland. He also combines his work as a director with chamber music and as a piano soloist.
Ostrava, Czech Republic
Dvorak 7th symphony, 4th Movement, Excerpt.
Janáček Philharmonic, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Valladolid, Spain
Brahms Variations on a theme by Haydn op.56a IV to VII variations.
Orquesta sinfonica de Castilla y Leon.
Valladolid, Spain
Unsuk Chin. Subito con forza.
Orquesta sinfonica de Castilla y Leon.
Oslo, Norway
Svendsen Symfoni (Excerpt) 1 op. 4. 1.movement.
Musicians of the Oslo Philarmonic and the Norwegian national opera
Bratislava, Slovakia
Debussy, Iberia. Par les rues et les chemins.
Slovak simphony orchestra, National orchestra of Slovakia in Bratislava.
Nüremberg, Germany
Mendelssohn, 3rd symphony, 2nd movement.
Nürnberger Symphoniker.
Oslo, Norway
Beethoven, Triple concerto op.56 (Soloist and conductor).
Norges Musikkhøgskole orchestra.
L.V, Beethoven
Symphony no.1.
Symphony no.2.
Symphony no.3.
Symphony no.4.
Symphony no.5.
Symphony no.6.
Symphony no.7.
Symphony no.8.
Triple Concerto.
Egmont overture.
Leonore overture.
Violin concerto.
Coriolan overture.
S.Barber
Knoxville summer of 1915.
B, Bartok
Tanz suite.
G, Bizet
Carmen.
J. Brahms
Symphony no.1.
Symphony no.2.
Symphony no.3.
Symphony no.4.
Tragic overture.
Academic festival overture.
Variations on a theme by Haydn.
Violin concerto.
B, Britten
Violin concerto.
P. I, Tchaikovsky
Symphony no.5.
Symphony no.6.
Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy overture.
R.Chapí
Obertura la Revoltosa.
Chin, Unsuk
Subito con forza.
F. Chopin
Piano concerto no.1.
A.Copland
Appalachian Spring.
C.Debussy
La mer.
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.
Images, Iberia.
A.Dvorak
Symphony no.7.
Symphony no.5.
E.Elgar
Cello concerto.
M. De Falla
El amor brujo.
El sombrero de tres picos.
G.Gershwin
An American in Paris.
Rhapsody in blue.
E.Grieg
Piano concerto.
Symphonic dances.
Lyric suite.
Holberg suite.
I.Jensen
Passacaglia.
J. Haydn
Symphony no.92.
Symphony no.96.
Symphony no.101.
Symphony no.103.
G.Holst
The planets.
G.Mahler
Des Knaben Wunderhorn.
Symphony no.1.
Symphony no.4.
Symphony no.7.
F.Mendelssohn
Symphony no.3.
Symphony no.4.
A Midsummer night´s dream.
The Hebrides.
W.A, Mozart
Piano concerto no.12.
Piano concerto no.21.
Piano concerto no.23.
Symphony no.35.
Symphony no.39.
Symphony no.40.
Symphony no.41.
C.Nielsen
Helios overture.
Masquerade.
Clarinet concerto.
S.Prokofiev
Suite no.3 Romeo and Juliet.
Piano concerto no.2.
Symphony no.1.
G.Puccini
Extracts from La Boheme.
Extracts from La rondine.
Extracts from Butterfly.
N.Rimski-Korsakov
Scheherazade.
S.Rachmaninoff
The Rock.
O.Respighi
Pini di Roma.
A.Schoenberg
Chamber symphony no.2.
F.Schubert
Symphony no.5.
Symphony no.8.
Symphony no.9.
R.Schumann
Symphony no.1.
Symphony no.3.
Overture, Scherzo and finale.
J.Svendsen
Symphony 1.
Symphony 2.
Karneval i Paris.
Norwegian rhapsody no 1.
Norwegian rhapsody no 2.
Sigurd Slembe.
D.Shostakovich
Cello concerto.
Symphony no.9.
J.Sibelius
Karelia suite.
Violin concerto.
Symphony no.2.
Symphony no.5.
Symphony no.7.
R.Strauss
Oboe concerto.
Don Juan.
I.Stravinsky
The firebird suite 1919.
Pulcinella suite.
J.Turina
La oración del torero.
C.M Webern
Clarinet concerto.
R.Wagner
Grand march from Tannhäuser.
Albéniz, Isaac.
Iberia: El albaicín.
Iberia: Triana.
Sonata no.5 in Gb major.
Granados, Enrique.
Valses poéticos.
Bach,Johann Sebastian.
Prelude und fugue BWV 850.
Prelude und fugue BWV 860.
Prelude und fugue BWV 866.
Prelude und fugue BWV 972.
Prelude und fugue BWV 883.
Partita 2 BWV 826.
Beethoven, Ludwig.
Sonate in F major op.10 no.2.
Sonate in C sharp minor op.13 no.8.
32 variations on a theme in C minor.
Eroica variations op.35.
Sonate in C minor op.13.
Sonate no.13 op.27.
Triple concerto op. 56.
Brahms, Johannes.
Ballades op.10.
Klavierstucke op.119.
Chopin, Frederic.
Various Waltzes.
Various polonaises.
Etude op.10 no.1.
Etude op.10 no.3.
Etude op.10 no.6.
Etude op.10 no.12.
Etude op.25 no.1.
Etude op.25 no.9
Etude op.25 no.12.
Sonate 2 op.35.
Sonate 3 op.58.
Scherzo no.1 op.20.
Scherzo no.3 op.39.
Ballade no.3 op.47.
Debussy, Claude.
Reflets dans l ́eau.
Images I.
Images II.
Haydn, Joseph.
Sonate C minor HOB XVI:20.
Mozart, W.A.
Piano concerto no.23 in A major.
Piano concerto no.12 in A major.
Piano concerto no. 20 in D minor .
Variations on a theme by Duport in D major -Sonate no.5.
Sonate no.11.
Sonate no.6.
Liszt, Franz.
Trascendental etudes 1 and 4.
Rhapsodie espagnole.
Serguéi Rajmaninov.
Various etudes tableaux.
2nd concerto.
De falla, Manuel.
Andaluza.
Ravel, Maurice.
Reflets dans l ́eau.
Shostakóvich, Dimitri.
Three fantastic dances op.15.
Serguéi Prokofiev.
Sarcasms op.17.
Grieg, Edvard.
Piano concerto in a minor.