Career
De la Parra's recent conducting highlights include appearances with the New World Symphony, Houston and San Antonio Orchestras, concerts with the Singapore Sun Festival Orchestra working with Geoffrey Rush, the Russian National Orchestra collaborating with Joshua Bell and Sir James and Lady Jeanne Galway, and Venezuela's Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra. She was also awarded that orchestra's highest honor given to a musician.
De la Parra has presented more than twenty world premieres by composers not involved in the contemporary avant-garde, but in popular, easy to understand modern and film music, including Enrico Chapela, Paul Brantley, Paul Desenne, Eugenio Toussaint, Ernesto Villa-Lobos. Its significant repudiation to the proposals of the modern musical Art in America has raised strong debates at the level of music criticism against a conformist conception of modernity.
De la Parra has appeared as guest conductor with the Westchester Philharmonic, the Napa Valley Symphony, the New World Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, Japan Virtuoso Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de Mexico, Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco, Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil de Veracruz, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Aguascalientes, Uruguay’s Montevideo Philharmonic and Mexico’s National Symphony Orchestra, among others. She made her Carnegie Hall debut as guest conductor of the New York Pops Orchestra.
Future engagements include performances with the Quad City Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, Roosevelt University Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Albustan Festival in Lebanon, among others.
De la Parra has launched two records with Sony Music, Mi Alma Mexicana, which got the Platinum Award in the first three months, and Travieso Carmesí an album of Mexican Music with the voices of Denise G.M. Lo Blondo, Ely Guerra, and Natalia Lafourcade.
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