VC Artist Francisco Fullana Appointed Leadership Roles in San Antonio

Francisco has been appointed Artistic Director of the 210 June Festival and Artistic Advisor of the Orchestra of San Antonio

As of 2025, VC Artist Francisco Fullana will start his new role as Artistic Director of the San Antonio’s 210 Festival, and as Artistic Advisor and Curator at The Orchestra of San Antonio (TOSA), the resident organization of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.

Francisco is a co-founder of San Antonio’s Classical Music Summer Institute (CMI) and has been advising and performing at both CMI and the 210 Festival since its establishment in 2016. 

In his new roles, he will oversee the summer festival’s programming, faculty, and fellowship program, plus lead curated conductorless performances of TOSA, while supporting its artistic planning team and its CEO Paul Montalvo. He will also continue to foster young musicians through his Fortissimo Youth Initiative. 

Additionally, Francisco will serve as Artist-in-Residence of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia at the Kimmel Center, also as of the 2024/25 season.

As the CMI grows its impact in the predominantly Spanish-speaking San Antonio community, it is proud to have Fullana’s creativity and vision in this important new position, wrote Arabella Arts. 

“Big news! So excited for this new chapter leading the 210 Festival at San Antonio’s Classical Music Institute as their Artistic Director and Artistic Advisor of The Orchestra of San Antonio!” Francisco posted on Facebook. 

“Thank you for the trust to the board and the amazing group of artists and staff that leads this organization every day,” he added. “As a Spanish speaking immigrant to this country, I cherish the opportunity to deepen my impact  and lead such meaningful artistic and educational initiatives that benefit the community of San Antonio. So much more to come!”

The winner of the 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Francisco has performed with major ensembles worldwide and with conductors such as Hans Graf, Pablo Mielgo, José Luis Gómez, Alondra de la Parra, Christoph Poppen, Jeannette Sorrell, Keitaro Harada, and Joshua Weilerstein, among many others.

He has further collaborated with Viviane Hagner, Nobuko Imai, Mitsuko Uchida, and members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Takács, and Cleveland string quartets, and the Hispanic artists guitarist Pablo Sainz-Villegas and bandoneonist JP Jofre, with whom he featured on The Violin Channel’s Vanguard Concerts at Merkin Hall.

A graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Madrid, The Juilliard School, and the USC Thornton School of Music, his mentors included Manuel Guillén, Donald Weilerstein, Masao Kawasaki, and Midori Goto. Francisco performs on the 1735 “Mary Portman” ex-Kreisler Guarneri del Gesù violin — kindly on loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.