Name	Alondra De La Parra
Height
Naionality	Mexican
Date of Birth	31-October-1980
Place of Birth
Famous for	Singing

Alondra De La Parra is a Mexican conductor. She was also the founder and artistic director of the New York-based Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. Currently she is the artist director of the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra. She will be stepping down at the end of the 2013 season.

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 Simon 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 Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico, Orquesta Filarmonica de Jalisco, Orquesta Sinfonica Juvenil de Veracruz, the Orquesta Sinfonica 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.