Alondra de la Parra
Biography Alondra de la Parra
Alondra de la Parra
Alondra's energy, contagious radiance and artistic qualities have made her an internationally sought-after artist.
She has already conducted many of the most prestigious international orchestras: Orchestre de Paris, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Orchestre du Festival de Verbier, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Bamberger Symphoniker, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, WDR Symphony Orchestra, the DR SymfoniOrkestret, the Camerata Salzburg, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai Torino, the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, as well as the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo.
In the 2022-2023 season, she conducted the complete Brahms symphonies with the Münchner Symphoniker and the world premiere of Joby Talbot's ballet 'Like Water for Chocolate' at London's Royal Opera House, given then at the New York's Metropolitan Opera.
Appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano in 2022, she also became Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid in 2024.
In 2017, Alondra de la Parra became the first woman ever to be appointed music director of an Australian orchestra, at the helm of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, a position she held until 2019.
In 2022, she created the first edition of the PAAX GNP festival in Mexico, welcoming artists such as Julian Prégardien, Guy Braunstein, Nemanja Radulovic, Pacho Flores and Aleksey Igudesman.
Alondra de la Parra appears regularly in the musical format "Musica Maestra", having recorded over 60 episodes to date. Since July 2017, Germany's Deutsche Welle has been broadcasting a series of web videos and television programmes in which the conductor appears as protagonist and reporter. Over the past three seasons, she has interviewed guests such as John Malkovich, Jan Lisiecki, Gautier Capuçon, Zenaida Yanowsky.
She co-created "The Silence of Sound", a multidisciplinary show - a philharmonic orchestra, a clown actress and a video installation - aimed at audiences of all ages, which have been touring through Mexico and Spain for the first time during the 2022-2023 season.
Alondra de la Parra has been represented by the RSBA agency since 2024.
Arturo Márquez
is one of the world’s most prominent and celebrated contemporary composers. His work masterfully combines classical music with traditional rhythms from Mexico, Latin America and Africa.
Danzón No. 2, the most famous of nine with that name, premiered in 1994 and quickly became the quintessential Mexican symphony. It carries a harmonic dialogue between orchestral music, Mexican ballroom dances and other popular melodies from Latin America. In 2019 it was the most frequently played classical music piece in the world.
