Carlos Bastidas
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CARLOS BASTIDAS, Conductor During the 2022-2023 orchestra season Carlos Bastidas continues as Music Director of The Ontario Pops Orchestra in Toronto and Durham Chamber Orchestra in Durham region. His upcoming engagements, depending on the pandemic, will include concerts, in Canada and Cuba. Since founding the Ontario Pops Orchestra in 2014, Carlos has steadily built its following and developed one of the most diverse professional orchestras in Canada.

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Since taking over as Music Director of the Durham Chamber Orchestra in 2016, Carlos has contributed to the orchestra’s success such that they had to change venues to accommodate their increased audiences. Critics and the media in Canada have been unanimous in their praise: Leanne Wright, VP Communications, The New Classical FM/Zoomer Media Limited as hailed Maestro Bastidas with the following comments: "Carlos is a leader on and off the podium. Not only does he program and conduct multiple orchestras, but creatively, he pushes the performance envelope with a vision of how to cultivate the next generation of classical music lovers.” Music and video producer Earl McCluskie in Toronto commented: “The ensemble of string players sounded fresh and energetic, and they responded to music director Carlos Bastidas with an admirable flexibility, and this in spite of the fact that for the past two months, rehearsal has not been possible during the lockdown.” Born in Colombia, Maestro Bastidas studied bassoon, composition, conducting and chamber music at the University of Ottawa. His honours include playing as section bassoonist with National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada (1996) and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (2001). Upcoming projects for 2022-2023 will be the launching of the “Breaking Barriers Concert Season II ”, a series of three Ontario Pops Orchestra concerts featuring guest Black and visible minorities soloists from September 2022 to May 2023. The premiere in Canada of several compositions by Black, Indigenous and people of Colour, Canadian composers and the livestreaming of an Ontario Pops Orchestra, from the magnificent Jeanne Lamon Hall, at Toronto’sTrinity-St Paul Centre. For Guest Conducting Bookings Contact: Veronica Kutt Booking Agent VK Artist Promotion & Bookings 416-707-2828 [email protected] www.vkartproman.com

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