Orfeón Donostiarra

The Orfeón Donostiarra is a concert choir based in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain.

The next music director was Juan Gorostidi, who served until his death 1968, when Antxón Ayestarán became the next conductor.

Since 1986 the choir is conducted by its present music director José Antonio Sáinz.

Conductors have included Claudio Abbado,[3] Ataúlfo Argenta, Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jesús López-Cobos, Peter Maag, Charles Mackerras, Igor Markevitch, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Leopold Stokowski, among others.

The performance of Mahler's Second Symphony with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Claudio Abbado has been released on DVD[5] and YouTube (per EuroArts).