Handbook of conducting technique: Manuale di tecnica di direzione (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781518669057)

Jorge Perez Gomez was born in Mexico City, Mexico and is presently Director of Orchestral Activities and Professor of Conducting at the University of New Mexico. Maestro Perez Gomez has appeared with orchestras all over Europe and America. After beginning his conducting career in his native Mexico City as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the "Orquesta Mexicana de la Juventud", Maestro Perez Gomez received the Diploma of Merit in conducting from the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy and degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Northwestern University, and the Eastman School of Music in the United States. Maestro Perez Gomez has conducted the National Orchestra of Mexico (Mexico), the Oradea Philharmonic and Brasov Philharmonic(Romania), the Festival Orchestra" Musica nas Montanhas," (Brazil), the Orquesta Sinfonica de la Universidad de Guanajuato (Mexico), the Orchestra Spazio Musica (Italy), the San Jose Symphony Orchestra and the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra ( U.S.A), among others. He has served as faculty of the TusciaOpera Festival in Viterbo (Italy), and of the Spazio Musica Opera Festival in Orvieto (Italy). Dr. Perez-Gomez offers yearly conducting masterclasses in that country having established an excellent reputation as conducting pedagogue. Most recently the Italian university of Tor Vergata in Rome, invited Maestro Perez Gomez to write a conducting handbook of conducting technique for a new masters program in which he will participate as active collaborator.