BIO

Lorena Suárez is a conductor and educator from Quito, Ecuador. She currently serves as Music Director of the Orquesta Ciudad de Quito and as Faculty Member and Director of the Classical Program at the School of Music at Universidad de Las Américas. Her career includes extensive experience leading orchestral, chamber, operatic, and choral ensembles.

She has appeared as guest conductor with the symphony orchestras of Loja, Cuenca, Guayaquil, Riobamba, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ecuador. She has also conducted the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra (Minnesota), the Arizona Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro (Brasília), and the Chilean Chamber Orchestra, among others.

Suárez has served as assistant conductor with prominent institutions including the Berlin Opera Academy, the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra (USA), and the Coro e Orchestra Desiderio da Settignano (Florence, Italy). Last year, she took part in the Women Conductors HUB with the Chamber Orchestra of the Municipal Theater of Santiago, Chile.

She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestral Conducting, with a minor in Music Theory, from the University of Arizona; a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Minnesota Duluth; and a Bachelor’s degree in Orchestral Conducting from the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence, where she also studied Choral Conducting and Vocal Composition. Additionally, she holds diplomas in piano and classical guitar from the Jaime Mola Conservatory of Music in Quito.