Artist · Conductor
José Miramontes Zapata
Biography
osé Miramontes Zapata graduated at the Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), Russia, where he obtained a Master's degree in Music Conduction.
He has developed an intense work as a pedagogue, choir conductor and music producer. In 2000, he founded the San Luis Potosí Symphony Orchestra, and since then he has been the artistic director and titular conductor. He is one of the few Mexicans who has conducted at the Großer Saal of the Berlin Philharmonic, in Germany. He has conducted important international orchestras, such as the Saint Petersburg Hermitage Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the University of the Arts of Kazakhstan, the Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania), the Lamont Symphony Orchestra of Denver, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Gahia Symphony Orchestra (Porto, Portugal) and the main orchestras of Mexico.