Spanish conductor Irene Gomez-Calado is one of the most young and promising conductors of the moment. In the past year, Irene was invited by leading conductor Enrique Mazzola to work with the Orchestre National d'Ile de France for the world premiere of "Concerto for audience and orchestra" by the Italian composer Nicola Campogrande at the Philharmonie de Paris. Continuing success has led her to be invited by the composer to work with the Orchestra La Verdi of Milan in February 2016. In words of Enrique Mazzola, "Irene is a young conductor with an extraordinary musical intelligence and a full capacity for understanding music".

Irene has performed in many different countries throughout Latin America, Europe and Japan. Her wide experience has allowed her to expand her knowledge into a big repertory. Irene has also had the opportunity to conduct the Atlantic Coast Orchestra in Portugal, the Brasov Symphonic Orchestra in Romania, the Sevilla Chamber Orchestra in Spain, the Orchestra des Grands Ècoles de Paris in France, the Philips Symfonie Orkest in Estonia, the Ensemble Erasme in Paris and the Pazardjik Symphony Orchestra in Bulgaria, among many others.

Born in 1988 to a family of musicians in La Puebla del Río, Sevilla, Spain; Irene began her music education at age of seven with the piano, flute and voice. From 2007 to 2012, Irene integrated the Youth Choir of Andalusia where she was performing concerts from Andalusia to Morocco and she was assistant conductor. She graduated in Choir Conducting, with honors, from the Conservatory of Music "Manuel Castillo "in Seville. In September 2011, Irene, moved to Paris. There she developed her knowledge in counterpoint, improvisation, organ, composition, analysis and conducting. In 2014 she completed her formal education with a Master Degree in conducting at the University of Sorbonne in Paris.

In 2010 she founded the Seville Chamber Choir in Seville with whom she made a tour in Latin American during the summer of 2011. During this time she was also the Vice President of the Federation of Choirs of Seville and she worked as a choral conductor at the Barenboim-Said Foundation for three consecutive years from 2009 to 2011. Irene is regularly invited to conduct the choir Victoria Î'Ile de France, with whom she has had the opportunity to record two albums with music by French composer Martial Caillebotte. She has also been invited
as a conducting teacher for the "Tamara Brooks" summer courses in Pontevedra.

Irene began her conducting career at the age of 18. For choral conducting, Irene has studied with Tamara Brooks, Julio Domínguez, Gary Graden, Johan Duijck, Ariel Alonso, Marianne Guengard and Celso Antunes, among others. In orchestral conducting her teachers have included Gianluigi Gelmetti, Colin Metters, Aurèlien Azan Zielinski, Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi and Jorma Panula.

Her recent and upcoming engagements include conducting the Pazardjik Symphony Orchestra in Bulgaria, the Orchestra La Verdi in Milan, the Youth Orchestra of Balears Illes in Mallorca, Spain, the Orchestra Vigo 430, in Spain and Sinfonica Abruzzese in Italy.

She has the advising to Paavo Järvi.