Enrico Lopez-Yañez is the newly named principal pops conductor of the Pacific Symphony beginning in the 2023–24 season. In addition, he is principal pops conductor of the Nashville Symphony, where he has collaborated with a broad spectrum of artists including Nas, Patti LaBelle, Itzhak Perlman, Stewart Copeland, Kenny Loggins, Toby Keith, Trisha Yearwood, Kelsea Ballerini, Leslie Odom Jr., Megan Hilty, Tituss Burgess, and others. Recent and upcoming collaborators include Cody Fry, The Beach Boys, Ben Folds, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Vanesa Williams, and Pink Martini.

Mr. Lopez-Yañez has appeared with the Baltimore Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, and Omaha Symphony. As artistic director and co-founder of Symphonica Productions, LLC, he curates and leads programs designed to cultivate new audiences. An enthusiastic proponent of innovative concert experience, his exciting educational, classical, and pops concerts are performed by orchestras across the United States. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut last September.

Aída Cuevas, known as the “Queen of Mariachi Music,” celebrates 47 years singing traditional Mexican and Latin American music. She is the first and only female singer in the traditional mariachi genre to ever win both a Grammy and a Latin Grammy Award, and she now celebrates a long career which includes 11 Grammy nominations for Best Mariachi/Ranchero Album. Much like Ella Fitzgerald’s classic releases for Verve, her “songbook” albums have played a central role in defining Mexican popular music. Over her career, she has recorded 41 full-length albums that have sold more than 11 million copies internationally.

An international icon of Mexican music since she was a teenager, Ms. Cuevas is an impassioned  performer with a striking voice that evokes life’s deepest sorrows, greatest joys, and most profound longings. She is also known as “La Voz de México” (the Voice of Mexico), and her two latest albums, Antología de la Musica Ranchera Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, feature her interpretations of the timeless songs made famous by the iconic 1930s ranchera singer Lucha Reyes. Both albums earned Grammy nominations.