José Luis Gutiérrez Hernandez

The conductor and pianist José Luis Gutiérrez was born in Mexico in 1995. At the age of 10 he began to play the piano and quickly had competitive successes, was supervised by the pianist Marta Garcia Renart and also began to play the cello with Fernando Melchor, which gave him access to orchestral music. His interest in conducting led him to Prof. Kenneth Kiesler at the University of Michigan. This was followed by master classes in England, Germany, Italy with Prof. Kiesler and in Mexico with Alondra de la Parra. In 2015 he switched to Dorian Keilhack at the Tyrolean State Conservatory in Innsbruck, where he graduated with honors. From January 2019, José Luis Gutiérrez was initially engaged as a solo coach with conducting duties at the Central Saxon Theater. In July 2019 he made his conduc