Biography

Orchestra conductor with a versatile artistic career, Juan Pablo Valencia-Heredia belongs to a generation of Colombian musicians who have made the leap to orchestral conducting after an extensive professional career as an instrumentalist.

During the last seasons he has conducted ensembles in Europe and Latin America such as the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia, Orquesta de Extremadura, Orquesta de Córdoba, Orquesta Clásica Santa Cecilia, Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellín, Sinfónica Eafit, Filarmónica Joven de Colombia, among others.

His artistic recognitions include being the winner of the 1st International Conducting Competition “Ferit Tüzün” in Turkey (October 2023), recipient of the Andrés Orozco-Estrada Scholarship (December 2021), winner of the Latin Grammy in 2021 with the project “Tú Rockcito Filarmónico”, and the recording of four Beethoven symphonies in the project “Beethoven en Medellín” with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellín (2019).

As assistant conductor he has had the opportunity to work on orchestral and/or opera projects with maestros such as Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Andrés Salado-Egea, Pablo Heras-Casado, Álvaro Albiach, Roberto González-Monjas, Catherine Larsen-Maguire, Guillermo García Calvo, Miguel Romea, Christoph König, among others, as well as with the Filármonica Joven de Colombia and the Joven Orquesta de Andalucía.

He is currently the assistant conductor of the Extremadura Orchestra, was resident conductor of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellín (2019-2021) and national symphony conductor of the Fundación Nacional Batuta (2015-2017).

Born in Medellín (Colombia), he studied his master’s degree in conducting with maestros Cecilia Espinosa and Alejandro Posada at the Universidad Eafit, music with emphasis on cello at the Universidad Eafit with maestro Ludmil Vassilev, and took a postgraduate course, specialising in cello, at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Salamanca with maestro Marius Díaz Lleal.

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