Juan-David Domínguez-Rincón initially trained as a pianist. He completed his studies in orchestral conducting at the Facultad de Artes ASAB in 2017. In 2024, he received his master’s degree in conducting from the University of Northern Iowa and began his Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting at Shenandoah Conservatory in the fall of 2024, studying under Maestro Emanuele Andrizzi.

He has conducted several orchestras in Colombia, including the Bogotá Philharmonic, Caldas Symphony Orchestra and Medellín Philharmonic. In 2019, he founded the Orquesta Sinfónica Metropolitana de Bogotá “La MET” with the purpose of developing himself as a conductor and opening a space for practice for emerging professional musicians and students. The orchestra is projected to become one of the most far-reaching platforms for young professionals in Colombia. With “La MET,” he recorded his first professional symphonic album in 2021, which included five original tone poems winners of the First National Composers Competition that he also promoted incorporating rhythms shaped by Colombia’s diverse geography.

Most recently, he participate in a conducting masterclass at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) with conductor Mark Gibson in March 2026. Other recent festivals and masterclasses include the 2024 Cascade Conducting Masterclass with the Tacoma Symphony and Maestra Sarah Ioannides and the 2024 Everything Conducting Seminar with the Omaha Symphony and Maestro Ankush Bahal. Domínguez-Rincón was also a 2024 fellow at Sphinx Connect in Detroit. He also attended the 2024 Oxford Conducting Masterclass with Toby Purser and has been mentored by Maestro Markand Thakar during his transition into the professional world. Currently he is invited to the Conducting Institute for the Eastern Festival of Music in Greensboro, North Carolina, a five-week festival where he will be mentored and will conduct the festival orchestra and the student orchestras, learning a large amount of repertoire every week.