José Antonio Montaño is one of Spain’s most promising orchestral conductors today, widely recognised by the specialist press for the solidity, versatility and depth of his interpretations. He maintains an active international career in leading opera houses and concert halls, performing a broad repertoire ranging from Baroque music to world premieres of contemporary works, with a particular focus on opera.

Deeply committed to early music, Montaño has conducted numerous eighteenth-century works in both operatic and symphonic contexts, combining a rigorous stylistic approach with a vivid and communicative reading. He is the founder and music director of the period-instrument orchestra La Madrileña, with which he promotes projects focused on the recovery, performance and dissemination of previously unpublished European repertoire.

Alongside his work as a conductor, José Antonio Montaño maintains an active research profile. He has been one of the key figures behind the Didone Project of the Institute of Musical Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid, an ambitious initiative devoted to the study and critical edition of eighteenth-century opera with librettos by Metastasio. The resulting corpus has served as the basis for the repertoire featured on the present recording E-MOTION. His artistic and musicological work thus converge in recording projects that seek to recover, contextualise and bring back to life forgotten works of extraordinary musical value.