Maestro José Iglesias is a founding faculty member of Orchestrating Dreams and serves as conductor as well as professor of violin at Orchestrating Dreams.
A cuban native, Maestro Iglesias embarked on his musical journey under the mentorship of professors Jose Radosvek and Carmelo Alvarez de La Rosa. Continuing his studies with Emil Chalbasch, he honed his skills at the Cuban National Arts Center under the guidance of Mijail Pitulko. Additionally, he pursued orchestral conducting with Maestro Jorge Luis Betancourt, a disciple of the renowned director and professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Ilyas A. Musin. Iglesias traveled to Saint Petersburg twice for further violin pedagogy training from mentor Mijail Pitulko
For twenty years, Maestro Iglesias served as concertmaster of both the Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra in his hometown and served as Conductor and First Violinist of the Union Quartet, contributing to various recordings for National Radio and National Television in Cuba. The quartet performed in numerous music festivals across the Republic of Cuba and internationally, earning significant acclaim at the 1994 Chamber Music Festival in Colonia Tovar, Venezuela.
Between 1999 and 2005, Maestro Iglesias conducted over two hundred concerts, leading the San Pedro Sula Chamber Orchestra, the Youth Symphony Orchestra, and the San Pedro Sula Symphony Orchestra in Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, and as a special guest at the contemporary music festival in El Salvador on five occasions.