Paolo Bortolameolli is music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Juvenil (Chile) and the Sinfónica Azteca (Mexico), principal guest conductor of the Filarmónica de Santiago, and associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has also led such ensembles as the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolivar (Caracas), the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires; the Kansas City, Houston, San Francisco, and Polish National Radio symphonies; the Helsinki Philharmonic; and the Orchestra della Toscana (Florence). His recent and upcoming operatic projects include Puccini’s Tosca at Paris Opera, Mozart’s The Magic Flute at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, and Golijov’s Ainadamar for his debut at Detroit Opera.

Mr. Bortolameolli’s long relationship with the Los Angeles Philharmonic continues through 2023. Alongside subscription and summer performances, notable past performances include a landmark new production of Meredith Monk’s opera ATLAS. He is passionately committed to new music including the work of Miguel Farías, Gabriela Ortiz, and Jorge Peña Hen. In 2022 he commissioned Mr. Farías’s Estallido, which was premiered with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

As artistic director of the Sinfónica Azteca, he leads an annual educational residency run by the Fundación Azteca from Grupo Salinas in Mexico. He has developed several new media initiatives with the Esperanza Azteca in Mexico, and his now legendary “Ponle Pausa,” a project that seeks to rethink the concept of music education through the implementation of short videos and concerts targeting social network users, has received wide acclaim. In 2018 he was a guest-lecturer for a TED Talk, and in 2020 he released his first book: RUBATO Procesos musicales y una playlist personal. He holds a master’s degree from Yale School of Music, a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Institute, a Piano Performance Diploma from the Universidad Católica de Chile, and a Conducting Diploma from the Universidad de Chile.