Duilio Dobrín — three-time winner of the prestigious DownBeat (™) Award, for Best Classical Recording and for Latin American Music — has built a richly varied career as conductor, pianist, and composer, that has taken him to New York, Munich, Tokyo, Lugano, Montreal, Zagreb, Vienna, and Buenos Aires, among many other musical centers. He has appeared with the Georgia Symphony Orchestra, Dubrovnik Music Festival, Sauris Music Festival, Zagreb Philharmonic, Varazdin Chamber Orchestra, and numerous other orchestras and festivals across the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
Dobrín first came to national attention during his decade-long tenure as Resident Conductor of the Florida Philharmonic, where he shared the stage with artists ranging from Pinchas Zukerman to Celia Cruz and conducted a vast span of the standard orchestral repertoire in over five hundred performances. He also created the Philharmonic’s celebrated LatinPops™ series, hailed by Diario Las Américas as “a paroxysm of passion,” an imaginative programming concept that drew enthusiastic audiences while generating new subscribers, donors, and corporate sponsorships.
A native of Argentina, Dobrín launched his career as assistant conductor to the Bach Choir at the Teatro Colón, where his devotion to oratorio and opera first took root. He subsequently conducted productions of Carmen, The Marriage of Figaro, The Barber of Seville, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Fedora, and The Elixir of Love, as well as Broadway works including Fiddler on the Roof, Pippin, The Pajama Game, Take Me Along, and A Little Night Music. Among his theatrical credits is Salute to Harold Prince, featuring Broadway luminaries Elaine Stritch, Theodore Bikel, and Harold Prince himself.
Dobrín studied with Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood, Sergiu Celibidache in Munich, and Otto-Werner Mueller at Yale, where he received a Certificate of Post-Doctoral Studies. He holds the Doctor of Arts and Master of Music degrees from Ball State University, which later honored him with its Outstanding Alumnus Award, and graduated first in his class from the National Conservatory of Music in Argentina.
He has brought the energy and imagination that distinguish his work on the podium to academia and numerous leadership roles. His catalogue includes orchestral, chamber, choral, and broadcast works, among them a Concerto for Bandoneon and Orchestra, nationally televised arrangements, and more than seventy orchestral settings of Latin American music. His music is published by Warner Chappell in London and Edizioni Aldo Pagani in Milan.
Whether on the podium, in the opera house, in Broadway and pops repertoire, or at the keyboard, Duilio Dobrín brings to his work imagination, authority, passion, and a communicative power that has moved audiences of more than half a million concertgoers around the world.