The baritone José Antonio López is a versatile singer who moves smoothly between styles and eras - from baroque to contemporary music. His professional activity includes concerts, opera and recitals, and he pays great attention to the style and expression of each period, using his voice to best bring out the music. On the concert stage, several appearances attest to his current great form: his recent debut in the LA Philharmonic season with Gustavo Dudamel performing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in four concerts, as well as his engagements with orchestras such as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Dresdner Festspieleorchester, Antwerp Symphony, BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, La Cetra Barockorchester, Budapest Festival and Nacional de España, or his forthcoming debut with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, in venues such as the Berliner Philharmonie, Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna (where he has sung Bach's Johannes and Matthäus-Passion), Barbican in London, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles or Mozarteum in Salzburg.
José Antonio López has worked with conductors such as David Afkham, Andrey Boreyko, Ivor Bolton, Gustavo Dudamel, Iván Fischer, Martin Haselböck, Pablo Heras-Casado, Christopher Hogwood, Nicola Luisotti, Lorin Maazel, Andrea Marcon, Neville Marriner, Juanjo Mena, Gianandrea Noseda, Víctor Pablo Pérez, Maurizio Pollini, Josep Pons, Christophe Rousset and Masaaki Suzuki, among others.
In recent years, he has also greatly increased his number of opera performances, in which the operas of Handel and contemporary composers (leading roles in the premieres of Mauricio Sotelo's El Público and Luis de Pablo's El abrecartas at the Teatro Real in Madrid, as well as Benet Casablancas' L'enigma di Lea at the Liceu in Barcelona) have an important presence, but in which there are also incursions into Mozart (roles such as Figaro at the Teatro Mayor in Bogotá), Verdi (the roles of Macbeth, Germont, Iago, Ford and Amonasro), Puccini, Wagner (Der fliegende Holländer in Valencia) and Strauss (Ariadne auf Naxos in Barcelona and Salome in Mérida), among others.
He has recorded Gurrelieder for the Deutsche Gramophon label with Josep Pons and has made recordings for Harmonia Mundi, Naxos and Chandos.