Roc Fargas i Castells, born in Barcelona, is a versatile conductor active in opera, ballet, and symphonic repertoire. With a background in historical performance practice and contemporary music, he brings a multifaceted approach to his work.
His recent highlights include debuts at the Hamburg State Opera, with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, and with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, as well as assistantships at the Hanover State Opera, Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, and the Mainz State Theatre. In 2025, Fargas won the First Prize, the Orchestra Prize, and the Audience Prize at the Maestro Borislav Ivanov Conducting Competition in Varna, Bulgaria. He has conducted orchestras such as the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, and the Jena Philharmonic, and regularly leads the Hessen State Youth Orchestra. Since 2023, Fargas has been regularly engaged in Ukraine, using music to convey hope. He has conducted projects with Open Opera Ukraine, Kyiv Camerata, and the “Mriya” Orchestra, and led the opening concert of the 2024 Kharkiv Music Festival in a bomb shelter.
Fargas studied music at the University of Cambridge, historical performance and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music with Prof. Sian Edwards, and completed a Konzertexamen in Conducting at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar with Prof. Nicolás Pasquet and Prof. Ekhart Wycik. He is also a scholarship holder of the Conductors’ Forum of the German Music Council and of the Akademie Musiktheater Heute of the Deutsche Bank Foundation.