Edith Mora Hernandez

 Mexican conductor, Edith Mora Hernandez is currently an M.M. 25 choral conducting candidate at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. In Mexico Mora Hernandez was the artistic director of the choir Opera Guanajuato; under her direction the group served as principal chorus for the Orquesta Sinfonica de la Universidad de Guanajuato. There Hernandez prepared the choir for major choral orchestral works like, Shostakovich's symphonies 2 and 3, Mahler's 8 symphony and Beethoven's 9 symphony. She was also a collaborative pianist in the Music Department of the Universidad de Guanajuato. In 2022 she presented a talk on Renaissance and Baroque Mexican Choral Music at the MASSACDA Summer Conference in Worcester Massachusetts. She holds a Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologias scholarship, awarded for the pursuit of graduate studies in the arts and culture outside of Mexico. In Boston, Mora Hernandez has collaborated with the ESOL choir, Back Bay Chorale, VIllanova University's treble choir, and the Boston Choral Ensemble. In February of 2024 she made her debut as an orchestral conductor with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Boca del Rio in Veracruz, Mexico. Her conducting achievements have attracted the attention of different presenters, and in July she will make her debut in the International Music Festival Palermo Classica in Italy.