Mauricio Soto

Mauricio Soto is currently Principal Horn of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Querétaro, director of the Orchestra Program at the "John F. Kennedy" School and Professor at the Universidad Panamericana. He has also been a member of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Montevideo (Uruguay), the Orquesta del Teatro Argentino (Argentina), the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Mexico) and professor of Horn at the Escuela Superior de Música (CNA), the Escuela Nacional de Música (UNAM), and the Universidad de Guanajuato in Mexico. 

During the summers from 1998 to 2008, he was invited as a teacher to the “Hartwick College Summer Music Festival & Institute” in Oneonta/N.Y. Mr. Soto has been regularly invited as a teacher to several Festivals: “Carlos Gomes” International Festival in Campinas (Brazil), “El Nevado” Festival (Edo. de Méx.), “Annual Brass Day” at Delaware State University, “Mérida International Brass Festival” (Yucatán), “Vientos de la Montaña” International Festival (Texcoco), and others.

He has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Venezuela, Uruguay, Mexico, USA, Brazil and Peru. In 2014 he was winner of the “B” Creadores Escénicos award (CONACULTA/México), through which he commissioned 5 new works for Horn and Piano by Mexican composers, performing them at 10 Universities and Conservatories in México later that year. 

He has organized several Festivals for Horns and Brass in Mexico: at the Escuela Superior de Música (Mexico City), the Universidad de Guanajuato and the Universidad Panamericana (México City).

He received a Bachelor 's degree from the Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay and his Master of Music degree from the University of Georgia (U.S.A.) with a scholarship granted by the OAS. His teachers have included his father, Juan Soto; Howard Katz, Guelfo Nalli, Gordon Campbell, William Brown, Jean Martin and Fred Mills.