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Juan Ignacio Miranda , born in Mendoza (Argentina) on July 16, 1988, is the youngest of 9 brothers and is the only one who has had, since childhood, a sensitivity for music.

At the age of 10 he began his studies of the transverse flute with Cecilia Piehl , who left an indelible mark on him by teaching him to love music. With her he had his first contact with the symphonic world, accompanying her in the rehearsals of the Mendoza Symphony Orchestra.

In 2002 he began his musical studies at the “Universidad Nacional de Cuyo”, from the preparatory cycle to the advanced level. He obtained a degree as a University Professor in Music in 2013. At the same university he studied Choral Conducting with Maestro Ricardo Portillo , and the instruments flute, classical guitar and piano. After this long training path he decided, together with his wife, to leave for the cradle of music, the old world, with the clear idea of studying Orchestra Conducting in Italy.

He arrived in Bologna in September 2014 and was admitted to the Conducting course as a student of Maestro Luciano Acocella , at the Giovan Battista Martini Conservatory of Music . In 2019 he obtained a degree in Conducting* . In July 2019 he participated as a student of the Bologna Conservatory in the fifth edition of the “Italian Opera Academy” of Maestro Riccardo Muti . In October of the same year, the Bologna Conservatory awarded him by awarding him the “A. Gigli and IS Toboli” Prize for the artistic and cultural activities carried out inside and outside the Conservatory. On this occasion he conducted the 4th Symphony by F. Mendelssohn, “Italiana” . He obtained a master's degree in Conducting with full marks in December 2021.

Since 2022 he has collaborated with the G. Rossini Symphony Orchestra of Pesaro conducting Mozart's Requiem Mass; Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, Joaquin Rodrigo's Aranjuez Concerto in 2023 and finally Bach's St. Matthew Passion in the version by Felix Mendelssohn at the Cathedral of San Pietro in Bologna with the Choir of the Amade' Association and the Children's Voices of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

In November 2023 he was a Finalist at the "Italian Opera Academy" where he studied and conducted Norma, with the Luigi Cherubini Orchestra in the presence of Maestro Muti. In December of the same year he inaugurated the 2024 symphonic season of the Rossini Symphony Orchestra at the Rossini Theater in Pesaro .

Since 2024 he has collaborated as assistant to Maestro Roberto Abbado in productions such as the Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale, the Sinfonica Arturo Toscanini and the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. He is currently engaged as musical director of the Orchestra and Choir of the Associazione Amade' of Bologna.

* Bachelor's Thesis: “Opera in Argentina and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires”

CURIOSITY

PAN AMERICAN

In 2014 he joined as an instrumentalist the musical group Panamericana, like the legendary road that connects all of Latin America. The group was born with the idea of making known and promoting the music of their lands. Its members come from Argentina, Chile and Peru and use in their repertoire typical instruments such as the sikus, quena, charango, bombo, cajón peruano, cuatro, and many others. Among the academic repertoire of Panamericana we can mention the “Misa Criolla” a well-known work by the Argentine composer Ariel Ramírez.

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THE WORLD IN MUSIC

In 2016 in Bologna, he participated as coordinator of the project “Il Mondo in musica”, a musical laboratory for integration, interculturality and cooperative learning of Italian.

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