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Alondra de la Parra

1980-10-31 (44 years old) in New York, New York, U.S.A.

Alondra de la Parra is a Mexican American conductor and the current Music Director of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the first female principal conductor of an Australian symphony orchestra. De la Parra is also an official Cultural Ambassador of Mexico. She began playing the piano at age 7 and the cello at 13. After she studied in England and the United States - with mentors such Kurt Masur and Kenneth Kiesler, she founded the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas (POA) at age 23 in 2004.

Movies

actor
La Maestra: Alondra de la Parra
60 %|Feb 3, 2019
Documentary, Music
poster
Conduct! Every Move Counts
0 %|Jan 28, 2016
Documentary, Music

Series

poster
Las Lunas del Auditorio
60 %|Sep 4, 2002