ARTISTIC PROFILE
Valentín Bravo is a Colombian conductor, composer, and violinist, born in Medellín and currently based in Los Angeles, California. His artistic activity has led him to perform at festivals across Colombia, the United States, and Germany.
He recently participated in the Texas Conducting Workshop with renowned conductor and pedagogue Diane Wittry and was selected for the upcoming edition of the Los Angeles Conducting Competition. He also served as Co-Artistic Director of Festicámara Jaibaná, where he conducted programs featuring works by Mahler, Bartók, Shostakovich, Suk, and Piazzolla, in addition to the premiere of his own composition for string orchestra, La Princesa y el Esbirro, based on one of his published stories.
Since 2024, he has served as a guest conducting instructor at the Popayán International Chamber Music Festival in Colombia, returning in 2025 and 2026 to lead conducting masterclasses. In February 2026, he was invited by the Peninsula Committee of the Los Angeles Philharmonic to give the talk Music and Nature, and he has been invited to open the committee’s 2026–2027 lecture series in September.
He has been invited on three consecutive occasions to conduct the benefit concert La Casita de Nicolás in Medellín with Camerata Jaibaná, featuring works such as Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires alongside violinist Mimi Jung. In his most recent appearance, he conducted Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with soloists Mimi Jung (violin) and David Samuel (viola), accompanied by guest students from Vanderbilt University.
In 2024, he served as assistant conductor to José Escandell in a production of Verdi’s Otello in Valencia, Spain, for LGAM. In November 2022, he was one of the winning conductors of the EAFIT Symphony Orchestra Young Talents Competition, conducting part of a season concert program. He has also conducted excerpts from Copland’s Appalachian Spring with musicians from the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and Iberacademy, as well as Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro under stage director Marco Gandini. In 2022, he participated as assistant to conductor Leonard Elschenbroich in Cochabamba, Bolivia, as part of a collaboration between the Bravura Foundation and Iberacademy.
He is currently Music Director of Bravo! Singers, an adult choir based in Rancho Palos Verdes. Together with violinist Mimi Jung, he co-directs the Jung–Bravo Music Studio, where he develops orchestral and chamber music programs for young musicians.
He studied conducting with Alejandro Posada at EAFIT University and has received private training from Lina González-Granados, José Escandell, and Orhan Salliel.
As a composer, he received Second Prize at the 2023 Caneres Music Competition (Vienna) for his Fugue for String Quartet. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Violin Performance from EAFIT University and was a violinist with the EAFIT Symphony Orchestra for eight years.