Our conductor

Mexican conductor and violinist, Dr. Espinosa has been the Music Director of the New Philharmonic Orchestra of Irving since 2007. He is the Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas Arlington, and he serves as Principal Examiner for the International Baccalaureate Organization in Wales, UK.

Dr. Espinosa maintains an active schedule as a clinician in Texas and beyond. He served as music director of the UTA Symphony, and he has led music teacher training workshops in Europe, China, Australia, Colombia, Chile, Canada, and the U.S.

Dr. Espinosa studied at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Conservatoire de Neuchâtel, Switzerland (Diplôme de Capacité Professionnelle de Violon), Ithaca College, New York, Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting). He received his Doctoral Degree in Orchestra Conducting from the University of Iowa.

His activities as orchestral conductor includes Music Director with the Shoals Symphony Orchestra, Florence, Alabama; assistant conductor with the Orchestre de L’Université de Fribourg, Switzerland; and assistant conductor with the Orchestre Philharmonique Rhodanien, Tournon, France. He has also guest-conducted the Las Colinas-Arlington-Garland Symphony, Rome Festival Orchestral, Rome, Italy; the Orquesta Sinfónica de Nuevo León; the Orquesta Sinfónica de Michoacán; the Orquesta Sinfónica de Guanajuato; Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional; and the Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes in México.

As a violinist, Dr. Espinosa has been a member of the string quartet Boccherini in Spain and has played with many orchestras.