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Argentine-Dutch conductor Hernán Schvartzman is an award-winning and versatile orchestral and opera conductor, equally at home with top historically informed performance ensembles and cutting-edge contemporary music groups. He is known for leading international large-scale opera productions, symphonic concerts, and chamber projects with the same combination of stylistic insight, clarity, and expressive intensity.

Based in The Hague, he has conducted renowned ensembles such as the Netherlands Bach Society, ASKO|Schoenberg, Vox Luminis, the Dutch Radio Choir, and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. As musical leader of OPERA2DAY, Hernán has shaped some of the most acclaimed Dutch opera productions of the past decade, including La Troupe d'Orphée (Opera of the Year 2014) and the world premiere of Tsoupaki's Mariken in the Garden of Delights. A graduate cum laude of the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, where he now teaches, he has collaborated with leading institutions from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to Teatro Argentino de La Plata. Recognised as a Musical Top Talent and Cultural Ambassador of The Hague, Hernán unites precision, imagination, and emotional depth in performances that connect continents, styles, and centuries, making him a distinctive voice in today’s international classical music scene.