Felipe Aguirre

Felipe Aguirre is a conductor trained at the Vienna Conservatoire and holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of the Balearic Islands. Over the past fifteen years, he has developed an extensive teaching, research and editorial profile in the fields of music, philosophy and classical studies. As a pedagogue, he has taught Musicology, Orchestral and Choral Conducting, Chamber Music and Musical Performance, particularly at the Conservatori Superior de Música de les Illes Balears, where he has been active since 2010.

As a conductor, he has worked with more than forty symphony orchestras in various countries, appearing in major international venues such as the Musikverein in Vienna and the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. His artistic activity combines symphonic, operatic and interdisciplinary projects, with a particular interest in the relationship between music, text, gesture and performance.

His academic research focuses on two main areas. The first is Platonic philosophy and the history of ancient thought; his monograph Transformations of the Image of the Soul from Homer to Plato received the SEEC Prize for the Promotion of Classical Studies, 17th edition. The second is the study of music in ancient Greece, to which he has devoted the last decade. His work in this field combines theoretical and philological analysis of ancient musical treatises with the reconstruction of performance practice through the study, reproduction and technical exploration of ancient instruments such as the aulos, kithara, barbitos and phorminx.

As a result of this research, he is currently preparing a monograph on musical performance in the Greco-Roman tradition. This work incorporates recent academic research while opening new perspectives on ancient musical thought, including the notion of musical hermeneia, the relationship between the musician and the instrument, and a broad reflection on the acoustic, symbolic and metaphysical conception of sound in classical antiquity.