Andrés Cárdenes

He has performed and taught in a number of prominent positions, including his current professorship in violin at Lynn Conservatory in Boca Raton, Florida and formally at Carnegie Mellon University School of Music where he held the Dorothy Richard Starling & Alexander Speyer Jr. Endowed Chair.

During that time he has appeared with over 100 orchestras across the world in locations such as Moscow, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Houston, Helsinki, Caracas, Brussels, and Shanghai.

He is also noted as frequent collaborative musician, having worked with conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Mariss Jansons, Sir André Previn, Leonard Slatkin, Gerard Schwarz, and others.

[4] The Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra was created in 1999 for Cárdenes to showcase his talents as a conductor and violinist and it went on to perform for a total of eleven seasons.

He gave the world premières of pieces such as David Stock's Violin Concerto and Roberto Sierra's Evocacíones, both with the Pittsburgh Symphony.