Daniel Huertas, born in 1996, is a young Spanish conductor whose interest includes classical and contemporary repertory. He was awarded the Neeme Järvi Prize in 2022 and won second prize in the Juventudes Musicales de España Competition in 2023.

He has recently conducted the Ensemble Interncontemporain during Paris’ Festival Manifeste, the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra in an educational project featuring Elgar's “Enigma Variations,” and the AVS Philharmonie in a program featuring Schubert's “Rosamunde” and Dvořák's 7th Symphony. He has conducted the ‘Sakura’ programme with the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, including six concerts and three school concerts throughout the Haut Savoie region.

At the RESIS Festival in La Coruñá, He has conducted the Arxis Ensemble, including the Galician premiere of Lachenmann's Mouvement (-vor der Erstarrung) and the Spanish premiere of Rihm's Pol, Kolchis, and Nucleus. At the Lucerne Festival, he premiered José Luis Valdivia's “Cyberpunk” for orchestra, and conducted and rehearsed works by Saariaho, Strauss, Rihm, Schoenberg, and Benjamin. At the same festival, he premiered several works with the Ensemble Modern International Academy. He has performed Stravinsky's “L'Histoire du Soldat” in Campo de Criptana with actor Emilio Gavira.

In terms of his operatic repertoire, he has conducted a production of Britten's “The Turn of the Screw” and premiered the opera “Dernière Expédition au Pays des Merveilles,” created at the second edition of OperaLab in Geneva. He has been assistant conductor for a production of Ravel's “L'Enfant et les Sortilèges” in Tenerife with Jordi Francés.

Paralelly, he currently holds the position of assistant conductor at the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris and the Spanish National Orchestra and Choir in Madrid, working regularly with Pierre Bleuse and David Afkham, as well as other guest conductors such as Marzena Diakun and Cornelius Meister. He has worked on pieces such as Bruckner's Fifth Symphony, Mahler's Fourth and Sixth Symphonies, Pierre Boulez's “Sur Incises” and “Cummings ist der Dichter,” Saariaho's ‘Semafor’ and “Lichtbogen,” and has collaborated closely with composers such as Rebecca Saunders, Aureliano Cattaneo, Martín Matalon, Michael Jarrell, and Raquel García Tomás, among others.

His upcoming engagements include the premiere of a new opera as part of the Oh!pera cycle at the Liceu Theater in Barcelona. He will conduct again the Ensemble Intercontemporain in a concert featuring new compositions in November at the Paris Conservatory. He will make his debut with the Spanish National Orchestra conducting Falla's “El Retablo de Maese Pedro” next season, and will conduct Beethoven's 8th Symphony at the AIMS Festival in Solsona. In September, he will assist David Afkham in a new semi-staged production of Alban Berg's “Wozzeck.”

Daniel studied conducting with Arturo Tamayo in Donostia-San Sebastián and Lugano, and with Laurent Gay at the Haute École de Musique de Genève. In 2024, he participated in the conducting academy of the Lucerne Festival. He has received masterclasses from Jaap van Zweden, Peter Eötvös, Sir George Benjamin, among others