Benjamín Juárez Echenique

Director of the Center for Mexican Studies UNAM-Boston, professor of Fine Arts and Leadership and Art at Boston University, member of the board of directors of Early Music America and correspondent member of the Mexican Academy of History in the US. He studied music, opera, conducting and musicology at the National School of Music (ENM) of UNAM, CalArts, and in Europe. He was director of Music and Dance at UNAM, director of cultural dissemination at the Universidad Anáhuac Sur, Director General of the National Center for the Arts and Director of Linking of the Mora Institute before assuming the Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Boston University. He has worked with the Symphony Orchestras of the State of Mexico and the Mexico City Philharmonic and has conducted as a guest the main orchestras in Mexico, as well as in Europe, the United States and the People's Republic of China, to the Shanghai Philharmonic. He was the first Latin American director to direct in that country.

His career has been distinguished by the dissemination of Mexican and Hispanic music, from the 16th to the 21st century. His work in the investigation and dissemination of Mexican cathedral music, reflected in more than twelve compact discs, published by the Mexican label Urtext Digital Classics, has earned him rave reviews in the United States and Europe, as well as a Latin Grammy nomination.