Jorge Pérez-Gómez was born in Mexico City, Mexico, and is presently Director of Orchestral Activities and Professor of Conducting at the University of New Mexico. Maestro Pérez-Gómez has appeared with orchestras all over Europe and America. During the summer of 2005, Dr. Pérez-Gómez was the Guest Conductor for the production of Gioacchino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” of the Toscana Opera Festival (Florence, Italy)  and he is also a member of the faculty  of the International Lyric Academy in Rome/Viterbo (New Opera  Festival di Roma and Viterbo Arte Musica).

Maestro Pérez-Gómez has been recognized both in the United States of America and Mexico for his research and performance of Latin American music, especially of the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940).  He recorded a compact disc of Revueltas’ orchestral works with the Moravian Philharmonic in the Czech Republic, produced by Quindecim Recordings of Mexico. In October, 2004, Maestro Pérez-Gómez was invited to take  the UNM Orchestra on tour to Mexico. The four-concert tour was in collaboration with Teatro Tinglado, a puppeteer company from Mexico City. Together they presented the Historias Revueltas, four puppet shows all based on music of the world-known Mexican composer.  The premier performance in Mexico of “Troka” (one of the Historias Revueltas) with puppets, as originally conceived by the composer, was the highlight of these performances.

Dr. Pérez-Gómez received degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Northwestern University and the Eastman School of Music in the United States and also studied with Franco Ferrara at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, where he received the Diploma of Merit.