Enrico Lopez-Yañez is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Nashville Symphony. Also an active composer/arranger, he has been commissioned to write for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and the Houston Symphony, and has had his works performed by orchestras including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and Utah Symphony, among others.
    With the Nashville Symphony, Lopez-Yañez has conducted concerts with a broad spectrum of artists and leads many of the films in concert on the symphony’s Movie Series. He also conducts the annual Let Freedom Sing! Music City July 4th fireworks show, which was first televised on CMT in 2019.
    In the upcoming season, Lopez-Yañez will collaborate with artists including Nas, Leslie Odom Jr., Itzhak Perlman, Stewart Copeland of The Police, Ben Folds, Jennifer Nettles, Boz Scaggs, and more. He will appear with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, and San Diego Symphony, and will make return appearances including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and The Florida Orchestra. Previously, he has appeared with orchestras including the Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, and Oklahoma City Philharmonic, among others.
    As Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Symphonica Productions, LLC, Lopez-Yañez curates and leads programs designed to cultivate new audiences. His work as a producer, composer, and arranger can be heard on albums including the UNESCO benefit album Action Moves People United as well as children’s music albums including The Spaceship that Fell in My Backyard, winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Hollywood Music in Media Awards, and Family Choice Awards, and Kokowanda Bay, winner of an INMA Global Media Award and a Parents’ Choice Award.