Conductor Alondra de la Parra has gained widespread attention for her spellbinding and vibrant performances, making her one of the most compelling conductors of her generation. “de la Parra's conducting style must be seen to be believed,” raved the San Antonio News Express. “Her electric, precise and energetic fluidity generated arches of breathtaking, glowing expression. The driving Beethoven rhythms pulled the audience to its feet at the end. If people still wore hats, they would have been tossed toward the theater's night-sky ceiling.”

In 2004 at the age of 23, Alondra de la Parra founded the New York-based Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas (POA) with the mission of promoting the work of young soloists and composers of the American continent. Since its founding, POA has engaged in international tours, established an Arts and Education program, and initiated a Young Composers’ Competition. The orchestra has performed for the President of Mexico; has been hosted at the White House; has given concerts for over 30,000 audience members in New York, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Oaxaca, Dallas, and Washington, DC, among other cities. In August 2010, POA will release Mi Alma Mexicana, its first commercial recording for Sony Classical. A celebration of Mexico’s 2010 bicentennial, Mi Alma Mexicana will include music from the past 200 years by a wide range of Mexican composers.

Alondra de la Parra’s recent and upcoming highlights include return engagements with the San Francisco Symphony, and her subscription concert debut with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Abroad she conducts Brazil’s Sao Paulo Symphony, Canada’s Edmonton Symphony, Germany’s Kammerakademie Potsdam and Moritzburg Festival Orchestra, and Denmark’s Tivoli Symphony. In addition, since 2005 she has been Music Director of the Music Festival of the Americas in Stowe, Vermont.

For more information, please visit www.alondradelaparra.com.