Jorge Orozco

Jorge Orozco is the co founder of the Strings Avenue Studio, along with his wife, Maria Montano. He is also the conductor of two orchestras at the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras of Strathmore. Mr. Orozco is a former faculty member of the Levine School of Music in Washington, the Catholic University of America, and the Valencia Conservatory in Venezuela.

Mr. Orozco’s students have been awarded prizes in several local, national, and international competitions. His violin students have been accepted in such schools as Juilliard, Paris Conservatory, Indiana University, University of Michigan, and University of Maryland.

Mr. Orozco has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Cuba, Venezuela, Germany, Austria, Italy, Portugal, and the U.S. Mr. Orozco is a member of the Washington based National Chamber Ensemble and the concertmaster of the Avanti Orchestra Masterworks Music Festival Orchestra during the summer. As a conductor, Mr. Orozco has performed at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Strathmore Hall, and the Kennedy Center.

As an orchestra musician, Mr. Orozco has performed with such artists as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, James Galway, Arturo Sandoval, and Branford Marsalis. He is the former Assistant Concertmaster of the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra and former member of the Alexandria Symphony, Mobile Symphony and the Philadelphia based Baroque ensemble Vox Amadeus.

Mr. Orozco holds a Master’s Degree in Music Performance from the University of Southern Mississippi, where he studied with Stephen Redfield and a Bachelor Degree in Music Performance and pedagogy from the Instituto Superior de Artes, Havana, Cuba, where he studied with Roberto Valdés. He has participated in numerous Festivals and workshops including the Texas Music Festival, Victoria Bach Festival, Havana Contemporary Music Festival, Vicksburg Chamber Music Festival, the Sterling-Delay Seminar, and the Juilliard Conducting Workshop.