Valentín Bravo is a conductor, composer, violinist, and music instructor from Medellín, Colombia, currently based in Los Angeles, United States.
 
He was recently appointed Artistic and Music Director of the Redondo Beach Music Box Youth Orchestras Program. He also serves as Musical Director of the Bravo! Singers, an adult choir based in Rancho Palos Verdes. 
 

Valentín Bravo recently serves as Artistic Co-Director of Festicámara Jaibaná (Jaibaná Strings Festival), where he  lead the String Orchestra in two distinct programs during October and November 2025, featuring works by Mahler, Bartók, Suk, Shostakovich, Piazzolla, and an original 8-minute composition of his own, inspired by one of his published stories called "The Princess and the Henchman".

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Currently based in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, Bravo co-directs the Jung–Bravo Music Studio with his wife, award-winning violinist Mimi Jung. Together, they run an orchestral and chamber music program for young musicians, emphasizing ensemble playing, musical awareness, and collaboration. Bravo also conducts the studio’s ensemble, which recently offered a warmly received performance for the local community.

 
In addition to his work as a conductor and composer, Valentín offers personalized instruction in violin, chamber music, music theory, history, and composition. He teaches both in person—at the Jung-Bravo Music Studio, and at Music Box in Redondo Beach—and online via Zoom. His teaching emphasizes active listening, collaboration, and creative expression, guiding students of all levels to deepen their musical understanding and develop their unique artistic voices. 

 
In May 2024, Valentín conducted Camerata Jaibaná and the Universidad de Antioquia Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with soloist Mimi Jung, as part of the La Casita de Nicolás concert. He was reinvited in April 2025 to conduct the same concert alongside Mimi Jung, this time featuring a performance of Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. During that same week, they also recorded the Adagietto from Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5.
 
He was guest faculty in October 2024 for conducting masterclasses at the Universidad del Cauca during the Popayán International Chamber Music Festival, and during the same Festival violinist Mimi Jung and pianist Juan Coronado premiered his piece "Danzas y Cantares". In October 2025 he will attend again as guest faculty for the same festival, giving conducting masterclasses on "Rite of Spring", and an orchestration for strings masterclass.

In 2024, he served as assistant to conductor José Escandell in Otello by Verdi, produced by LGAM Artist Management in Valencia, Spain.
 
In 2022, Valentín was one of the winning conductors of the Young Talents Competition of the EAFIT Symphony Orchestra, conducting in the orchestra’s 20th season concert. He has conducted Copland’s Appalachian Spring with musicians from the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and Iberacademy Orchestra, and scenes from Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro under stage director Marco Gandini. He has worked under the guidance of his mentor Alejandro Posada and received advice from Roberto González-Monjas. In November 2022, he traveled to Cochabamba, Bolivia, to assist conductor Leonard Elschenbroich in a project sponsored by the Bravura Musical Foundation and Iberacademy.
 
Valentín is currently pursuing conducting studies at EAFIT University under the mentorship of Maestro Alejandro Posada. He has also studied privately with Lina González-Granados (Colombia), José Escandell (Spain), and Orhan Salliel (Turkey).
 
Future engagements in 2026 include a third consecutive appearance with Camerata Jaibaná at La Casita de Nicolás, a major, high-impact benefit concert that brings together artistic excellence and community support, this year featuring Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in May in Medellín, showcasing soloists Mimi Jung (violin, USA) and David Samuel (viola, USA). He will also appear as a guest conductor with the EAFIT Symphony Orchestra in Medellín, leading Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto with soloist Mimi Jung, alongside gems of the German repertoire as part of the central celebration of the 30th anniversary of the German Institute Alexander von Humboldt. Additionally, he will appear as a guest speaker for the talk “Music and Nature”, organized by the Peninsula Committee of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

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As a composer, his catalog includes works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo instruments, and choir. His Fugue for String Quartet won second prize in the 2023 Caneres Music Competition (Vienna). His works include the orchestral overture Buen Viento y Buena Mar, the miniature Fernanda Played with Goldfish, the baritone-orchestra piece Francesco e Povertà. Other compositions include the choral work La gran Aldea, Elektro-Variations for string quartet, a Nocturne for Ensemble, and the Rhapsody for Solo Violin, to be recorded in 2025 by Mimi Jung. His piece The Princess and the Henchman—a work for string orchestra based on his original published story—is scheduled to premiere in 2025, with further details to be announced soon
 
Valentín holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in violin performance from EAFIT University, where he studied with Professor Williams Naranjo. His master’s thesis included editing and interpretative analysis of the Two Sonatas for Solo Violin by Roberto Pineda Duque. As a violinist, he performed for eight years with the EAFIT Symphony Orchestra—serving as assistant principal of second violins—and was a member of Camerata Jaibaná, where he also performed as a soloist.