The Hot Springs Music Festival is proud to announce the appointment of Carlos Espinosa as Assistant Conductor for the 2012 Season. His second consecutive year at the Hot Springs Music Festival, he will continue work with the Festival’s Music Advisor and Conductor Peter Bay. Congratulations Carlos!
Biographical Information:
Carlos Espinosa is a Doctoral student in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Kansas. Most recently he served as Conductor at the Taneycomo Festival Orchestra in the summer of 2011, and Assistant Conductor at the Neue Eutiner Festspiele 2011 assisting in the production of Hansel und Gretel in Eutin, Germany.
In the summer of 2009, he was an active conductor at the Canford Summer School of Music Conductors’ Course, studying with well-known pedagogue George Hurst in Sherborne, England. Also that summer, he was on the faculty at Midwestern Music Academy’s String Institute, teaching conducting as well as viola.
Mr. Espinosa has also served as conductor for the KU Camerata and the KU Strings Project. In 2006 he was the conductor of the IES Chamber Orchestra in Vienna, Austria, studying under Wolfgang Harrer of the Vienna Philharmonic. Other teachers include Nicholas Uljanov, Dr. John P. Lynch, Leon Gregorian, Dr. Raphael Jimenez, and David Neely. He has also conducted in masterclasses with David Lockington and Leonard Slatkin.
As a violist, Mr. Espinosa has studied with Chung-Hoon Peter Chun, James VanValkenburg, and Yuri Gandelsman, and has played in such orchestras as the Topeka Symphony, Lawrence Chamber Orchestra, Lansing Symphony Orchestra (MI), the Jackson Symphony, and the Tran-Siberian Orchestra.
Carlos Espinosa received a master of music degree in conducting from Michigan State University and a bachelor of music education degree from the University of Kansas. In 2011 he attended Hot Springs Music Festival as a conducting apprentice.
