ALONDRA DE LA PARRA

Conductor

Biography

A natural communicator with a charismatic personality, conductor Alondra de

la Parra’s compelling musical insight continues to attract international
attention throughout the world.

This season she returns to Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and

London Philharmonic Orchestra and makes her debut with Staatsorchester
Stuttgart. On the stage, she returns to Deutsche Oper to conduct
Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty with Staatsballett-Berlin in a new choreography
by Marcia Haydée.

Other engagements in 2020/21 include a tour with the Orchestra del Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino with Khatia Buniatishvili, her debut with Museumsorchester
Frankfurt, a series of concerts celebrating Piazzolla’s 100th anniversary, a
concert with Rolando Villazón and Orchestre Philharmonique du
Luxembourg and a New Year’s concert with Junge Deutsche Philharmonie
and Simone Rubino at the Alte Oper, Frankfurt. With tenor Julian Prégardien,
her concerts include Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Danish
National Symphony, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Guiseppe Verdi and
Hannover Staatstheater.

Engagements in recent seasons have included Carlos Padrissa’s highly

acclaimed new staged production of Mozart Thamos, King in Egypt
with Camerata Salzburg and the theatre collective La Fura dels Baus at the
2019 Salzburg Mozartwoche (repeated at the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-
Provence), concerts with Orchestre de Paris (broadcast live on ARTE), Tonhalle-
Orchester Zürich, Bamberger Symphoniker, Swedish Radio Symphony
Orchestra, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Berlin,
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Verbier Festival
Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and a live
orchestral performance of the film West Side Story to a capacity 10,000
audience at Mexico’s Auditorio Nacional.

In 2017, Alondra de la Parra became the first ever Music Director of an

Australian orchestra when she took up the position with Queensland Symphony
Orchestra, a position she until 2019.

Whilst studying piano and conducting at the Manhattan School of Music,

Alondra de la Parra founded the Philharmonic Orchestra of the
Americas (POA) in 2004, when she was 23. Her intention was to create an
orchestra which would serve as a platform to showcase young performers and
composers from the Americas, placing music from the Americas amongst
standard orchestral repertoire. Their first recording, Mi Alma Mexicana (My
Mexican Soul) was released by Sony Classical to celebrate Mexico's
Bicentennial Anniversary. It reached the top 10 of the US Billboard Classical
Chart and was the first ever classical recording in Mexico to achieve platinum
sales, which it did in only 2 months. She is an official Cultural Ambassador of
Mexico.

She conducted the Staatskapelle Dresden in their 2019 Christmas Concert at

Frauenkirche, which was broadcast by the German TV channel ZDF. Over the
past three years, Deutsche Welle has broadcast Musica Maestra, a television
series devised and presented by Alondra de la Parra, both as protagonist and
reporter in which she meets a variety of artists from around the world. Over the
past three seasons, she has interviewed such guests as John Malkovich, Jan
Lisiecki, Gautier Capuçon, Zenaida Yanowsky, and has filmed from such
venues as Salzburg, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Monte Carlo, Mexico and
Queensland!

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