About
CECILIA ESPINOSA A
Conductor Cecilia Espinosa Arango is one of the foremost artists of Colombia and has performed throughout Latin America, the United States, and Europe.
She received her undergraduate degree from the Longy School of Music and her Masters in Orchestral conducting at Hartt School of Hartford University in the United States. Her postgraduate studies were done at King’s College of London University in the United Kingdom.
She was awarded the Andrés Segovia and José Ruiz award Ibero-American music in Austin and Polyphony in Santiago de Compostela, and recently, in 2022, was the recipient of the Juan del Corral order awarded by the Mayor of Medellín, Colombia.
Founder and Conductor of three renowned choirs: Coro Tonos Humanos, Coro de Cámara Arcadia, and Coro de Cámara Cecilia Espinosa. She has represented Colombia in numerous national and international competitions and conferences abroad, obtaining gold, silver, and bronze medals, and the highest prizes. .
She has received awards for best choral conductor at the Béla Bartók (Hungary-2006) and Guido d’Arezzo (Italy-2015) Choral Competitions.
Most importantly, she is the creator of the Music Career Department at the EAFIT University in Medellín, where she served as Head of the Music Department and is the Principal Conductor of the EAFIT Symphony Orchestra since its founding in 2000.
She has taught musicians, choral and orchestral conductors such as Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Juan Pablo Valencia, Andrés Lopera, Silvia Restrepo, and Juan Montoya, to name a few.
She has premiered many works for orchestra and choir by Latin-American composers and as head of one of the research programs of EAFIT University, she recorded more that 11 CDs of new music in a collection called “La nueva música Sinfonica Colombiana”, a project supported by Universidad EAFIT of Medellín, Colombia.
Her latest performances highlights include Samuel Barber's violin concerto, Tchaikovsky's fourth symphony, Jean-Martinon Concerto pour un quatuor de Saxophones et Orchestre, Mahler's fourth symphony, and Rachmaninov and Prokofiev's third piano concertos.