Iván López-Reynoso
Iván López Reynoso possesses a musicianship and a solid temperament proved in numerous leading ensembles in Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Peru, Oman and Italy. His collaborations extend to some of the most relevant 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 or Alex Klein.
He has conducted the Philharmonia Zürich, the Oviedo Filarmonía, the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini, the Navarra Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid, the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, the Staatsorchester Braunschweig, the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, the Orchestra and Choir of Mexico's Bellas Artes Theater, the Mexico State Symphony Orchestra, the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Mexico City, Symphony Orchestra of Mineria, Philharmonic Orchestra of National University OFUNAM, or the Jalisco Philharmonic in theaters such as the Opernhaus Zürich, Santa Fe Opera, Teatro Real de Madrid, Rossini Opera Festival, Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla, or the Royal Opera House Muscat.
A gifted opera conductor, Mtro. López Reynoso made his opera debut in 2010 at the age of 20 with Le Nozze di Figaro. This was only the first of a list of more than 40 operas: Aida, Der fliegende Holländer, Carmen, La bohème, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, 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 and the debut in Mexico of Rossini’s Le comte Ory, Il viaggio a Reims and Donizetti's Viva la mamma.
Maestro López Reynoso was selected as the conductor for the 2014 Rossini Opera Festival Accademia, conducting Il viaggio a Reims as part of the festival program and working closely to great Rossini specialist, maestro Alberto Zedda. Previous positions include Interim Artistic Conductor of the Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra, Erster Kapellmeister of the Staatstheater Braunschweig and Associate 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 since 2018 he works as Principal Guest Conductor of the Oviedo Filarmonía.
Born in 1990 in Guanajuato, Mexico, Lopez Reynoso studied violin under Gellya Dubrova, piano under maestro Alexander Pashkov, choir conducting under maestro Jorge Medina and he graduated Summa Cum Laude in orchestra conducting under maestro Gonzalo Romeu. He has since taken part in numerous master classes among which Alberto Zedda, Jean Paul Penin, Jan Latham-Koenig or Avi Ostrowsky. As an additional skill, Mtro.Lopez-Reynoso also sings as countertenor.
