Iván López-Reynoso
Iván López-Reynoso was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1990 and studied violin with Gellya Dubrova, piano with Maestro Alexander Pashkov, and choral conducting with Maestro Jorge Medina. He completed his orchestral conducting studies with Maestro Gonzalo Romeu 'Summa Cum Laude'. Since then he has taken part in numerous masterclasses, including those with Alberto Zedda, Jean Paul Penin, Jan Latham-Koenig and Avi Ostrowsky. He also performs as a countertenor.
He made his operatic debut in 2010 at the age of 20 with Le Nozze di Figaro. Since then he has conducted more than 40 operas, including Aida, The Flying Dutchman, Carmen, La bohème, The Magic Flute, La clemenza di Tito, Don Giovanni, L'elisir d'amore, Madama Butterfly , La cenerentola, Il turco in Italia, La scala di seta, Carmen La Traviata, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rigoletto, Werther, Tosca, Don Carlo, Hänsel und Gretel, the first performance of Rossini's Le comte Ory in Mexico, Il viaggio a Reims
and Donizetti's Viva la mamma.
He has worked with the most important artists such as Brigitte Fassbaender, Ildar Abdrazakov, Javier Camarena, Ute Lemper, Ramón Vargas, Irina Lungu, John Osborn, Alessandro Corbelli, Franz Hawlata, Paolo Bordogna, Augustin Hadelich, Michael Barenboim, Yulianna Avdeeva, Gabriela Montero and Alex Klein and has conducted orchestras such as the Philharmonia Zurich, the Oviedo Filarmonía, the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, the Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini, the Navarra Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid, the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, the State Orchestra of Brunswick and the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, the Orchestra and Choir of the Bellas Artes Theatre of Mexico, the Mexico State Symphony Orchestra, the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Mexico City, the Symphony Orchestra of Mineria, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the National University of OFUNAM or the Jalisco Philharmonic in theatres such as the Zurich Opera House, the Santa Fe Opera, the Teatro Real de Madrid, the Rossini Opera Festival, the Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla, and the Royal Opera House Muscat.
Iván López-Reynoso was selected as conductor for the Rossini Opera Festival Accademia 2014. He conducted Il viaggio a Reims as part of the festival programme and worked closely with the great Rossini specialist Maestro Alberto Zedda. His previous positions include conductor of the Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra, principal conductor of the Staatstheater Braunschweig, and deputy conductor of the Orquesta Filarmonica de la UNAM. In December 2020, he was appointed Artistic Director of the Orquesta del Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico and has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Oviedo Filarmonía since 2018.