Pedro Castillo Lara

Pedro Castillo Lara is member of the national system of art creators FONCA / CONACULTA, he was born in Mexico City in 1974 and graduated in composition, orchestral conduction and musicology from the Instituto Cardenal Miranda, headquarters of the Pontifical School of Sacred Music of Rome in Mexico. Subsequently, he traveled to France where he completed a master’s degree in composition at the Paris VIII University and the Paris School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences. At the same time, he carry out specialization studies at the Cevran, Miromesnil and Nanterre conservatories in France. His music includes different instrumental ensembles and electronic media and has been performed in different countries in Europe and America.

As conductor Castillo Lara has conducted and been invited by different renowned ensembles and orchestras such as The Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra, Ensamble Liminar, Densités 93, and has been director and creator of the Voces latinas de Paris choir, Ensemble Noise Muslab Ensamble and the Orchestra of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xocimilco, having conducted on both sides of the Atlantic and encompassing a wide repertoire ranging from Gregorian chant to contemporary music.