Conductors

Andrés Lopera

Associate Conductor

About Andrés Lopera

Exciting, creative, engaging, and motivating are some of the words that describe Maestro Lopera. He is one of the current leading Latin American conductors in the United States and has performed with orchestras throughout the Americas for over a decade.

Lopera is in his 3rd season as Associate Conductor of the Columbus Symphony and Music Director of the Columbus Youth Symphony Orchestra. He has directed performances with orchestras such as the Colorado Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Toledo Symphony, New World Symphony, and Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra.

Andres Lopera has also appeared at summer festivals, He conducted the Inaugural season of the New England Conservatory’s Summer Orchestra Institute in 2019. Other engagements have included, the National Repertory Orchestra and the Youth Orchestra of the Americas among others. In October 2017, Lopera covered a series of concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic working alongside Gustavo Dudamel and Carlos Miguel Prieto.

At the international level, he has performed with the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra and the EAFIT Symphony Orchestra in his home country Colombia, among others. He has also presented concerts and collaborated with both professional and youth orchestras throughout Central and South America, including organizations in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, and Honduras. In June 2012, Lopera was appointed Music Director of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony in Portland, OR, where he oversaw a program with more than 450 students, 12 ensembles, and 10 conducting staff. In recognition of his contributions to Portland, he received the Portland Monthly Award, Rising Star Award, and the Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber Bravo Award. Additional honors include the Orgullo Colombiano Award and Egresados Que Inspiran from EAFIT University, both received in 2017.

Lopera has studied and worked with some of the most outstanding professional artists in the field, including Hugh Wolff, Andrew Litton, David Loebel, Carlos Kalmar, Ludovic Morlot, and Marin Alsop. He earned a Master's degree in orchestral conducting from New England Conservatory.

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