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Genres
  
Classical

Name
  
Alondra la

Siblings
  
Mane De La Parra

Years active
  
1999-present

Instruments
  
Piano, Cello

Parents
  
Manelick de la Parra Sr.

Occupation(s)
  
Role
  
Conductor


Born
  
October 31, 1980 (age 43) (
1980-10-31
)

Website
  
www.alondradelaparra.com

Spouse
  
Carlos Zedillo Velasco (m. 2008–2010)

Albums
  
Travieso Carmesi, Mi Alma Mexicana (My Mexican Soul)



Credit: Getty Images/Frazer Harrison


Similar
  
Mané de la Parra, Emoé de la Parra, Yolanda Vargas Dulché

Profiles


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Alondra de la Parra (born October 31, 1980) is a Mexican conductor and the current Music Director of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the first female principal conductor of an Australian symphony orchestra. De la Parra is also an official Cultural Ambassador of Mexico.

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Career

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De la Parra was born in New York City, the daughter of Manelick de la Parra, a writer and editor, and Graciela Borja, a sociologist and educator. Her father was a film student at New York University and her mother a sociology student at The New School at the time of her birth and early childhood, through age 3. Her grandmother was the writer Yolanda Vargas Dulché, and her aunt is the actress Emoé de la Parra. Her brother is Mane de la Parra.

The family subsequently moved to Mexico City, where de la Parra began her piano studies at age 7 and the cello at age 13. She also developed an interest in conducting around age 13. After a year of study at St Leonards-Mayfield School, she studied composition at the Centre of Research and Musical Studies in Mexico City. At age 19, de la Parra returned to New York City, to study piano and conducting at the Manhattan School of Music. She obtained a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance under the direction of Jeffrey Cohen and studied conducting with Michael Charry and Kenneth Kiesler, receiving an MA in Conducting in 2008. Her other conducting mentors include Marin Alsop, Charles Dutoit, and Kurt Masur. She served as an apprentice conductor with the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra.

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In 2003, de la Parra founded her own ensemble, the Mexican-American Orchestra, at the behest of the Mexican Consulate, which asked de la Parra to produce a concert featuring Mexican music for the Mexico Now Festival. The resulting 65-member orchestra was renamed in 2004 the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas (POA). The POA toured to Mexico in 2007. The orchestra and de la Parra released two commercial recordings, Mi Alma Mexicana – My Mexican Soul, and Travieso Carmesí. In June 2011, the POA suspended operations because of financial difficulties. De la Parra was artistic director of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco from 2012 to 2013.

In May 2015, de la Parra made her first guest-conducting appearance with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO). In October 2015, the QSO announced the appointment of de la Parra as its first-ever music director and first-ever female conductor in its principal conducting post, effective in 2017. Her appointment is for 3 years, where she will work for 14 weeks each year.

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She is currently a UNICEF ambassador and an official Cultural Ambassador of Mexico.

Personal life

De la Parra has been married twice. Her first husband was architect Carlos Zedillo Velasco, son of former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo. Her second husband, was a Mexican fashion photographer Leonardo Manzo. She has a son, Luciano, by her current partner, Teo de Maria y Campos. She and her family reside in Mexico City.

Awards

  • Pablo Casals Award, Manhattan School of Music
  • New York Women's Agenda – Rising Star of 2007
  • 1010 WINS "Newsmakers of Tomorrow" Award – winner in the Arts and Entertainment category
  • "Banda de Honor", highest honor given to conductors by the Venezuelan Fundación del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de las Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela (FESNOJIV)
  • Manhattan School of Music Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship – Honorable Mention Award
  • El Micrófono de Oro Award, (Highest prize given yearly from the Mexican Broadcasting Association)
  • Presser Merit Scholarship Award, Manhattan School of Music
  • Amigos de la Música Music Award, Cuernavaca, Morelos
  • Luna Award, Auditorio Nacional México
  • Poder Award, ABC Foundation and Poder magazine
  • References

    Alondra de la Parra Wikipedia


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