Libia Hernandez

Cuban born conductor Libia Hernandez exchanged her engineering studies at the City College of New York for a life in music and received her Master of Music at the University of Hartford where she studied with double bass virtuoso Gary Karr. She was a member of both the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Amsterdam Bach Soloist from 1990 till 2002 and performed under the direction of conductors such as Frans Brüggen, Richard Egarr, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, Simon Rattle and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In 2003 Ms. Hernández began her conducting studies with the Finnish pedagogue Jorma Panula in Moscow while pursuing a degree program at the Hague’s Royal Conservatoire of Music under the tutelage of Jac van Steen and Kenneth Montgomery. She participated in maste