Juan Vázquez, Assistant Conductor

Juan was born in La Piedad, Michoacán, in Mexico. He began to study piano in early ages with Saúl Heredia, in his hometown. He later moved to the city of Morelia, and continued his musical education in “Las Rosas” Conservatory (Conservatorio de las Rosas), where he began to study composition with Jorge David García. He has a bachelor’s degree in law, obtained in 2016 at the Escuela Libre de Derecho, in Mexico City. After obtaining that degree, he continued to study composition with Antonieta Lozano and Andrea Chamizo in the Musical Studies and Research Center (Centro de Investigación y Estudios de la Música), also in Mexico City.

In 2020 he returned to Morelia, and founded the Tzintzuni’s Philharmonic Orchestra. He worked as the principal conductor of this ensemble for almost four years. He also worked as the President of the board of directors of the Cultural Center “Allende 637”, a place dedicated to the promotion of arts, humanities and culture. He has been invited as a guest conductor for the Michoacan’s Symphony Orchestra, the Sonora’s Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the State of Zacatecas, in the Camerata of the City of Zacatecas, the Camerata Oaxaca, and for the Mexico City Chamber Orchestra.

In 2021, he won the first price of the “Arturo Márquez” National Contest of Composition for Chamber Orchestra. His music has been played by different ensembles and in diverse festivals in his country, as well as in the FESTMUS festival in Castellon, Spain and in the MUSICMEXICO Symposium 2024, at El Paso, Texas. He is now starting a master program in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Oregon.