Pablo Heras-Casado embraces throughout his career the great symphonic and operatic repertoire, historically informed performances and contemporary scores. He cultivates long-term collaborations with orchestras around the world.

He appears regularly in Europe with the Philharmonia, London Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, Münchner Philharmoniker, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Staatskapelle Berlin, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and Israel Philharmonic. He also conducts the Berliner and Wiener Philharmoniker, Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, while in North America he has worked with the symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Montréal. From 2011 to 2017 he is Conductor principal of the Orchestra of St. Luke's in New York, with whom he is a guest conductor at Carnegie Hall.

Recent opera projects include Mozart's Don Giovanni at Teatro alla Scala, regular collaboration with Wiener Staatsoper and Concentus Musicus Wien, for Monteverdi's opera trilogy with L'Incoronazione di Poppea, L'Orfeo, and Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria. He debuted as Conductor guest at the Bayreuther Festspiele, conducting Wagner's Parsifal.

He entertains a fruitful long-term collaboration with the Freiburger Barockorchester. A new collaboration with Anima Eterna Brugge begins with Bruckner's Symphony No. 7, recorded on historical instruments and presented at several European festivals.

His extensive discography for harmonia mundi includes the complete Schumann symphonies with the Münchener Philharmoniker, and Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps juxtaposed with Péter Eötvös's Alhambra, with the Orchestre de Paris and Isabelle Faust. Winner of numerous awards, including two Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, two Diapason d'Or and a Latin Grammy, he has also recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Decca and Sony Classical.

A committed educator, Heras-Casado conducts ensembles and youth projects, such as the Karajan Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker and the Juilliard School of Music Orchestra.

Artist of the Year 2021 at the International Classic Music Awards and Musical America's Conductor Orchestra of the Year 2014, Heras-Casado is a recipient of the Rodriguez Acosta Foundation's Medalla de Honor and the Medalla de Andalucia 2019. He is an Honorary Ambassador and recipient of the Gold Medal of Merit from the Council of Granada, as well as an Honorary Citizen of the Province of Granada, his hometown. In 2018 he was awarded the title of Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic.

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