After three years as Resident Conductor at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin (1974 – 1977) and six year as resident conductor at the Vienna State Opera (1977 – 1983), artistic responsabilities , that he developed at the same time as his performances as guest conductor in all ather nominated Operas and Concert Houses, from 1984 to 1987 was Miguel A. Gómez-Martínez Chief Conductor of the Radio Television Symphony Orchestra Spain (RTVE) and from 1985 to 1991 Artistic Director of Teatro Lírico Nacional La Zarzuela in Madrid. From 1989 to 1993 Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of Basque National Orchestra San Sebastián and from New Finnish National Opera Helsinki from 1993 to 1996. During three years he was General Music Director of the City of Mannheim (Germany) (1990 – 1993). From 1992 to 2000 he was the Chief Conductor of Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and then he was elected Honour Conductor to live time. From 1997 to 2005 is Chief Conductor of the Orquesta de Valencia. Resident in Switzerland, he is during four years General Music Director of The Opera Theatre Berne (From 2000 to 2004) From 2004 to 2012 he is the Chief Conductor of the Easter Festival of Bayreuth Orchestra. Now he is the chief conductor of the Spanish Radio Television Symphony Orchestra.

He has conducted the must famous singers of the world, such as Monserrat Caballe, Mirella Freni, Birgitt Nilsson, Margaret Price, Leoni Rysaneck, Ileana Cotrubas, Mariana Nicolescu, Tatiana Troyanos, Grace Bumbry, Daniela Desi, Katia Ricciarelli, Victoria de los Angeles, Pilar Lorengar, Gundula Janowitz, Karita Mattila, Agnes Baltsa, Teresa Berganza, Gwyneth Jones, Jane Henschel, Elina Garanca, Soile Isokoski, Cheryl Studer, Editha Gruberova, Raina Kabaivanska, Violeta Urmana, Luciana D’Intino, Bianca Berini, Christa Ludwig, Eva Marton, Lucia Popp, Ainoha Arteta, Nathalie Stutzmann , Julia Varady, Maria Bayo, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Alfredo Kraus, Vladimir Chernov, Jaime Aragall, Lugi Alba, Carlo Cossutta, Giuseppe Giaccomini, Franco Tagliavini, Rene Kollo, Hans Beirer, Jonas Kauffmann, Wolfgang Seiffert, Ramón Vargas, Piero Cappuccilli, Renato Bruson, Sherril Milnes, Giuseppe Tadei, Sisto Bruscantini, Thomas Hampson, Carlos Alvarez, Fabio Armigliato, Ingvar Wixell, Josef Greindl, Franz Grundheber, Peter Glossop, Yuri Massurok, Vladimir Atlantov, Boris Christoph, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Cesare Siepi, Leo Nucci, Giorgio Zancanaro, Franco Bonisolli, Matti Talvela, Matti Salminen, Samuel Ramey, Nicolai Gedda, José van Dam, Mariella Devia, Maria Chiara and many others.

He also conducted great instrumental soloists, such as: Mstislav Rostropovich, Boris Pergamenchikov, Michel Beroff, Arto Noras, Pinchas Zuckerman, Anne Sophie Mutter, Vadim Repin, Maurice André, Alicia de la Rocha, Hakan Hagegaard, Joshua Bell, Mischa Maisky, Eliso Virsaladze, Ralf Gothóni, Joaquín Achúcarro, Rudolf Buchbinder, Christian Zacharias, Pascal Roger, Horacio Gutierrez, Aldo Ciccolini, Gil Shaham, Uto Ughi, Julian Rachlin, Silvia Marcovici, Wolfgang Tetzlaff, Arturo Meneses, Narciso Yepes, Pepe Romero, Bella Davidovitch, Garrick Ohlsson, Leonel Morales, Steven Isserlis, Cristina Ortiz, Lucero Tena, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Arabella Steinbacher, Truls Mørk, Erkki Rautio, Lazar Berman, Maxim Vengerov, Augustin Dumay, Lola Bobesko, Karl Leister, Gérard Caussé, Katia y Marielle Labèque, Martin Haselböck, Yefim Bromfman, Wibi Soerjadi, Nikita Magaloff, Nelson Freire, Julian Lloyd Webber, Misha Maisky and many others.

He has got many prices for his recordings with Decca Records, Orfeo, RCA, Bongiovanni, Teldec, Sony, Dabringhaus & Grimm, Naxos, Hispavox, Ondine.

Beside his activities as Conductor, Maestro Gómez Martínez has a brilliant activity as composer, and got very important successes with his 'Sinfonía del Descubrimiento' (Symphony of the Discovery) first performed in Mannheim 1992, with 'Cinco canciones sobre poemas de Alonso Gamo' (Five Songs on Poems by Alonso Gamo) for soprano and orchestra first performed in Hamburg 1996, the 'Sinfonía del Agua' (Water Symphony) first performed in Granada 2007, “Amaneciendo” (Passacaglia) first performed in Madrid 2010, as well as Cinco Homenajes en cuatro movimientos (Five homages in four movements) (Sinfonía número 3) (Symphony Nr. 3). A new Lieder- cycle for bariton and orchestra, dedicated to his wife and named “Cartas de un enamorado” (Letters from a lover), first performed in Valencia 2014. Beside several works for piano solo and differente chamber groups, he has also composed a “Spanish Requiem” for Mezzosopran, baritone, choir and orchestra, a concerto for piano and orchestra, first performed in Madrid 2017, a concerto for violin and orchestra, a concerto for violoncello and orchestra, as well as an Allegro for orchestra and “Don Juan Tenorio” for choir and two pianos. Other works are “Christsmas Suite” for mixed Choir and Orchestra, “nocturne of the dead teenager” and “Stages of a Life” in two versions: for Symphonic Band and for Orchestra. At the moment he is working at his opera in three acts “Atallah”.

Maestro Gómez Martínez has a prodigious memory, which permits him to conduct without score, and a perfect conducting technique; he is also one of the conductors, who defend the original score with absolute fidelity, being as faithful as possible to the composers’ intentions.

Among his many Decorations stand out the Gold Medal of the City of Granada “on account of his great artistic merits” (1984) and the Civil Merit Order given by Juan Carlos I King of Spain (1996). He is also Gold or Silver Medal of other European Cities like Bonn, Savonlinna, Madrid, Munich, State of Bavaria , Hamburg, Morges, Bern, Mannheim, Houston, Málaga, Tokyo, Tblisi and Cambridge. He is also fine arts academic of the academies of Granada and Valencia and also distinguished by International Dance Council fo the UNESCO and by the Valencian Council of Culture. Janury 2019 he has been awardeded Doctor Honoris Causa for the Polytechnic University in Madrid.

2014 the Maestro founded the non-profit organization that channells their artistic and sociocultural for Music and Performing Arts shares, Gómez-Martínez International Foundation GMIF (FIGM Fudación Internacional Gómez Martínez), entity that also preserves and exposes to the public a museum and archive of musical documentation and develope numerous educational, cultural and high musical specialization programs.