Felipe Tristán

Award-winning Mexican conductor, Felipe Tristán is known for bringing lively musical prowess to the podium. He has worked with orchestras around the world and currently serves as principal conductor of the Ballet de Monterrey, interim artistic director of the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, and at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege division, in New York. Also, he serves as the creative & artistic consultant of the GRAMMY®️ award-winning, Afro Latin Jazz Alliance.

Hailed as “the most important Monterrey conductor of his generation” (El Norte/Reforma, 2022), Mr. Tristán has worked with symphony, opera, and ballet orchestras around the world, including in countries such as Germany, Canada, China, the United States, Panama, Czechia, and Switzerland.

Now a regular guest conductor at the worldwide-known Met Gala, he is featured in the DISNEY+ documentary “In Vogue: The 90s”, as he prepares for a performance at the Met Gala 2023 guided by Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, and the Australian film director, Baz Luhrmann. He was also featured in FORBES magazine in the section “Working Journal” by photographer Michael Fiedler.

Recent engagements include concerts with the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, New Amsterdam Symphony, Gwinnett Symphony Chamber Orchestra, North Shore Symphony Orchestra, Zhengzhou Symphony, among others. In Mexico, engagements with the Aguascalientes, Querétaro, Chihuahua, Oaxaca, Monterrey, Baja California, and Michoacán symphony orchestras. Operatic highlights include Falstaff and Il Trovatore, La bohème, Carmen, L’amico Fritz, L’elisir d’amore, and Don Giovanni. Recently, he conducted the world premiere of the ballet “Maximiliano & Carlota” with music by Caleb Ruiz and a production of Prokofiev’s “Romeo & Juliet” with the Ballet de Monterrey.

Felipe Tristán is the founding Music Director of the Monterrey Summer Opera Academy, a successful program that gathers talented voice students from around the world. Co-founding faculty members include the great American mezzo-soprano, Dolora Zajick, from the Curtis Institute of Music. Also in the summers, Felipe is the principal conductor of the Texas New Music Festival, where he has premiered 30+ works by living composers.

He is committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse performing arts industry. Thus, he has collaborated with artists and producers on initiatives such as Carnegie Hall Citywide, NY Phil Bandwagon, Met Opera, Lincoln Center, and the GRAMMY®️ award-winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (HBO’s Fandango at the Wall).

Mr. Tristán recently participated in the GRAMMY®️ award-winning project Fandango at the Wall in New York (Tiger Turn, 2023), under the category of Best Latin Jazz Album. Additional recording credits include an album as a producer with flutist Krzysztof Kaczka and members of the Met Orchestra with works by Schubert (Hänssler Classics) and the album Flute Concertos by Reinecke & Penderecki with flutist Krzysztof Kaczka and the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra (Hänssler Classics), that received Poland’s foremost prize by the Ministry of Culture & National Heritage; the Muzyczne Orły 2024, under the category of Best Recording.