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Tito Muñoz

CONDUCTOR
Artistic Partner: The Phoenix Symphony
Principal Conductor Designate: Cleveland Institute

Representation: General Management

Praised for his versatility, technical clarity, and keen musical insight, Tito Muñoz is internationally recognised as one of the most gifted conductors of his generation. Following his ten-year tenure as the Virginia G. Piper Music Director of The Phoenix Symphony, which concluded in the 2023/24 season, he continues his association with the orchestra as Artistic Partner. In the 2025/26 season, he also takes up the role of Interim Principal Conductor at the Cleveland Institute of Music, becoming a guest member of its Orchestral Studies faculty.

Tito previously served as Music Director of the Opéra National de Lorraine in France, and earlier held Assistant Conductor positions with the Cleveland Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the Aspen Music Festival.

He has appeared with many of North America’s leading orchestras, including those of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minnesota, New York, and Utah, as well as the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s – making his Carnegie Hall debut with the latter in a sold-out performance of Orff’s Carmina Burana in February 2024. Maintaining a strong international conducting presence, Tito has also worked with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, SWR Symphonieorchester, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National d’Île de France, Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony, Royal Philharmonic (London), Ulster Orchestra, Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Music Makers Singapore, Auckland Philharmonia, Sydney Symphony, Adelaide Symphony, São Paulo State Symphony, Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, and Opéra de Rennes.

The 2025/26 season includes debuts with the New Jersey Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Antwerp Symphony, Jena Philharmonie, Nürnberger Symphoniker, and Komische Oper Berlin, alongside return appearances with SWR Symphonieorchester and the New York Philharmonic.

A committed advocate for contemporary music, Tito has championed composers of our time through commissions, premieres, and recordings. He has conducted important premieres of works by Christopher Cerrone, Kenneth Fuchs, Dai Fujikura, Michael Hersch, Adam Schoenberg, Mauricio Sotelo, and Francisco Coll. His close collaboration with Hersch has included world premieres of On the Threshold of Winter (Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2014), the Violin Concerto with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (2015), I hope we get a chance to visit soon (Ojai and Aldeburgh Festivals), the script of storms (BBC Symphony Orchestra, London), and And We, each (2024). In March 2025, Tito led the American Composers Orchestra in world premieres by Tomàs Peire Serrate, Clarice Assad, and Edmar Castañeda at Carnegie Hall, receiving glowing reviews, ‘Brilliantly led by conductor Tito Muñoz, the concert felt like the center of a social triangle of concerts, parties, and going to church’ (Boyd, 2025).

A passionate educator, Tito is a regular guest at many of North America’s leading educational institutions, summer festivals, and youth orchestras. He has led performances at the Eastman School of Music, Aspen Music Festival, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Cleveland Institute of Music, Indiana University, Kent/Blossom Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, New England Conservatory, New World Symphony, Oberlin Conservatory, Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto), University of Texas at Austin, and National Repertory Orchestra, as well as a nine-city tour with the St. Olaf College Orchestra.

Born in Queens, New York, Tito began his musical training as a violinist in the city’s public schools. He later studied at the LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts, Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program, and the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College Division. He continued violin studies with Daniel Phillips at Queens College (CUNY) before turning to conducting at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, working with David Zinman and Murry Sidlin. He won the Aspen Music Festival’s 2005 Robert J. Harth Conductor Prize and 2006 Aspen Conducting Prize, serving as the festival’s Assistant Conductor in 2007 and later returning as a guest conductor.

Tito made his professional conducting debut in 2006 with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, invited by Leonard Slatkin as a participant of the National Conducting Institute. That same year, he made his Cleveland Orchestra debut at the Blossom Music Festival. He was awarded the 2009 Mendelssohn Scholarship sponsored by Kurt Masur and the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Foundation in Leipzig, and was a prizewinner in the 2010 Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition in Frankfurt.

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News

Cleveland Institute of Music names Tito Muñoz Interim Principal Conductor & Guest Orchestral Studies Faculty

February 27th, 2025

CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC PRESS RELEASE, Feb. 27, 2025: Roll out the red carpet. A celebrated friend is on his way back to the Cleveland Institute of Music.   On Thursday, CIM announced the appointment of Tito Muñoz, former music director of The Phoenix Symphony, as interim principal conductor of the CIM Orchestra. He’ll take up theRead more ›

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Muñoz makes debut with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

February 14th, 2025

Following a busy start to the year with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Fresno Philharmonic, Cleveland Institute of Music and Eastman School of Music, Tito Muñoz is now in Australia to make his debut with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO). Muñoz will launch the ASO’s 2025 Symphony Series with concerts on the 14 and 15Read more ›

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Tito Muñoz conducts world premiere of Hersch’s opera

September 26th, 2024

On the 28 September Tito Muñoz will conduct the world premiere performance of Michael Hersch’s new opera ‘And We, each’.  Hersch’s new two-act opera, composed around the texts of American poet Shane McCrae, is produced by the Baltimore-based organisation Mind on Fire. The opening performances will take place at the Baltimore Theatre Project on theRead more ›

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JBM artists: worldwide summer festivals 2024

July 22nd, 2024

This summer JBM artists will be performing at festivals across the globe.   19 July – 11 August: Bregenz Festival, Austria Enrique Mazzola conducts the Vienna Symphony for Weber’s Der Freischütz. Find out more. 20 July: Virtuoso and Belcanto Festival, Italy Viviane Hagner and pianist Till Fellner perform a programme of Mozart, Ligeti, and BrahmsRead more ›

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Tito Muñoz concludes 10-year tenure at The Phoenix Symphony

May 10th, 2024

After 10 years as the Virginia G. Piper Music Director of The Phoenix Symphony, Tito Muñoz’s tenure, one of the longest in the organisation’s history, will conclude this Sunday 12th May. The Phoenix Symphony has recently celebrated Tito Muñoz’s final season with a series of events between the 26th April – 12th May entitled ‘Tito’sRead more ›

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Reviews

“Muñoz’s pacing was masterfully gauged […] He certainly had the [BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra] playing their best so far this season.”

Ken Walton, VoxCarnyx

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