Carmen Moral

Who is Carmen Moral?

Carmen Moral is an orchestra conductor and also teaches conducting at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

She holds master's degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and Columbia University and a master's degree and a DEA in Musicology from the Sorbonne. She studied conducting with Ionel Perlea of New York's Metropolitan and with Laszlo Halasz, one of the founders of the City Center Opera of New York.

She was the first woman to become a Music Director and Conductor of a major Latin American orchestra : the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru, her native country. She was selected for this position by a competition in which she was the only woman participant. Since then, several orchestras have entrusted her with the post of Music Director, such as the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra, I. Frauen-Kammerorchester von Osterreich, the Symphony Orchestra of Mimar Sinan University, and, for a second time, the National Symphony orchestra of Peru. She served for six years as First Conductor of the Istanbul State Opera. She became Conductor Emeritus of the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru, "Gran Official" of the Merit Order-City of Bogotá and Medal of Honor of the Peruvian Culture.