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Viva Mexico! Enrico López Yañez becomes Principal Pops Conductor at Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Martina Guzman by Martina Guzman
November 9, 2023
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The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is making history. For the 2024–2025 season, they hired Enrico Lopez-Yañez, producer, composer, and arranger, as Principal Pops Conductor, who brings his Mexican culture and history into the symphonic world.

“Enrico’s vibrancy, charisma, and creativity will invigorate our orchestra and be a tremendous asset,” said DSO President and CEO Erik Rönmark.

The position comes after years of national and international success, including collaborations with leading Mexican artists like Aida Cuevas and Lila Downs.

Lopez-Yañez has come a long way since his childhood days of listening to his father, a renowned operatic tenor, and his mother, a pianist, rehearse daily. His music-filled life included touring with his father in Europe as well as summers and Christmas vacations visiting family in Aguas Calientes, Mexico, which instilled in him a devotion to Mexican music.

“I would get to play with mariachi groups with my dad and work and absorb the music and culture,” Lopez Yañez said.

When Enrico was a young man, his father, Jorge López Yáñez— part of the Three Mexican Tenors—wanted to express his love of la musica ranchera, and record a mariachi album. The album included songs such as Novillero, Pelea de Gallos, and Silverio, which are part of the mariachi music canon.

The recordings spread out over a week, and it was during these sessions that Enrico fell in love with the trumpet.

“Mariachi music was one of the reasons I decided I wanted to be a trumpet player, Lopez Yañez said. “Being there and seeing that sound live in the studio come to life was one of the things where I was like, wow, this is something I could see myself doing.”

When Lopez Yañez started learning the trumpet, his grandfather, a bullfighter, dreamed that one day his grandson would learn the piece, La Virgen de la Macarena, a pasodoble used at the beginning of bullfights and made famous by the Mexican trumpet virtuoso Rafael Méndez.

Sadly, his grandfather passed away before he learned to command the trumpet enough to play such a tune. Later, as an homage to his abuelo, he played La Virgen de La Macarena as his final high school graduation performance.

“I used La Virgen de La Macarena for several competitions that got me scholarships for college,” Lopez Yañez said. “It came full circle for me. I have a cousin who is a professional bullfighter—and that music is very much a part of our family’s culture in Mexico. And that kind of repertoire is very special to me.”

After a decades-long music trajectory, which includes receiving the “Mexicanos Distinguidos” Award—a prestigious award given by the Mexican government that recognizes citizens abroad for their extraordinary commitment to promoting the image of Mexico—López-Yañes is back in Detroit.

He was first introduced to Detroit audiences in 2019 and has since conducted the DSO in more than twenty performances.

The DSO says that it is his dynamic artistic leadership that brings unforgettable musical moments to the audiences in Orchestra Hall and throughout Detroit. Through the DSO’s Detroit Neighborhood Initiative, he conducted a musical experience at St. Hedwig Catholic Church in 2022 and again in 2023, featuring works by Latin American composers and a performance by local Ballet Folklorico Moyocoyani Izel.

One of the main reasons López-Yañes says he came to Detroit is because he believes in the ethos of the DSO.

I feel like the Detroit Symphony is one of the few orchestras in the country that really commits to the mission of being an orchestra for the city and the community,” said Lopez-Yañez. “I’m incredibly excited to be here in Detroit.”

This story was made possible by the Race and Justice Reporting Initiative. The goal of the initiative is to build trust between the news media and Black Indigenous People of Color communities and strengthen representative democracy.

Martina Guzmán is a nationally recognized, award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker. She is a 2023 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. Martina founded and directed the Race & Justice Reporting Initiative at the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit. She believes we must increase pay to independent journalists and that community and freelance reporters are the backbone of a healthy democracy. Martina is the proud daughter of Mexican immigrants and a graduate of the Journalism School at Columbia University in New York City.

¡Viva México! Enrico López Yáñez se convirtió en el director principal de pop, de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Detroit

La Orquesta Sinfónica de Detroit está haciendo historia. Para la temporada 2024-2025, contrataron como Director Principal de Pops; a Enrico López-Yáñez, productor, compositor y arreglista, quien ha traído su cultura e historia mexicana al mundo sinfónico.

“La vitalidad, el carisma y la creatividad de Enrico revitalizarán nuestra orquesta y serán un gran activo”, dijo el presidente y director ejecutivo de DSO, Erik Rönmark.

El puesto llegó después de años de éxito nacional e internacional, incluidas colaboraciones con destacados artistas mexicanos como Aida Cuevas y Lila Downs.

López-Yáñez ha recorrido un largo camino desde su infancia escuchando a su padre, un renombrado tenor de ópera, y a su madre, pianista, ensayar diariamente. Su vida llena de música incluyó giras con su padre por Europa, así como veranos y vacaciones navideñas visitando a su familia en Aguas Calientes, México, lo que le inculcó una devoción por la música mexicana.

“Podía tocar con grupos de mariachi con mi papá, trabajar y absorber la música y la cultura”, dijo López Yáñez.

Cuando Enrico era joven, su padre, Jorge López Yáñez, parte de los Tres Tenores Mexicanos, quería expresar su amor por la música ranchera grabando un álbum de mariachi. El disco incluyó temas como Novillero, Pelea de Gallos y Silverio, que forman parte del canon de música de mariachi.

Las grabaciones duraron una semana y fue durante estas sesiones cuando Enrico se enamoró de la trompeta.

“La música de mariachi fue una de las razones por las que decidí que quería ser trompetista”, dijo López Yáñez. “Estar allí y escuchar cómo el estudio cobraba vida fue una de las cosas que me hizo pensar, ¡vaya, esto es algo que me gustaría hacer!”.

Cuando López Yáñez comenzó a aprender a tocar la trompeta, su abuelo, un torero, soñó que algún día su nieto aprendería la pieza, La Virgen de la Macarena, un pasodoble utilizado al comienzo de las corridas de toros y que hizo famoso el virtuoso de la trompeta mexicana Rafael Méndez.

Lamentablemente, su abuelo falleció antes de que aprendiera a tocar la trompeta lo suficiente como para tocar esa melodía. Más tarde, como homenaje a su abuelo, interpretó La Virgen de La Macarena como su última actuación de graduación de la escuela secundaria.

“Usé a La Virgen de La Macarena para varios concursos que me dieron becas para la universidad”, dijo López Yáñez. “Para mí se cerró el círculo. Tengo un primo que es torero profesional y esa música es una gran parte de la cultura de nuestra familia en México. Y ese tipo de repertorio es muy especial para mí”.

Después de una trayectoria musical de décadas, que incluye recibir el Premio “Mexicanos Distinguidos”, un prestigioso premio otorgado por el gobierno mexicano que reconoce a los ciudadanos en el extranjero por su extraordinario compromiso con la promoción de la imagen de México, López-Yáñez está de regreso en Detroit.

Conoció al público de Detroit por primera vez en 2019 y desde entonces ha dirigido el DSO en más de veinte funciones.

El DSO dice que es su dinámico liderazgo artístico lo que brinda momentos musicales inolvidables al público del Orchestra Hall y de todo Detroit. A través de la Iniciativa Vecinal de Detroit del DSO, dirigió una experiencia musical en la Iglesia Católica St. Hedwig en 2022 y nuevamente en 2023, con obras de compositores latinoamericanos y una actuación del Ballet Folklórico local Moyocoyani Izel.

Una de las principales razones por las que López-Yáñez dice que vino a Detroit es porque cree en el espíritu del DSO.

Siento que la Sinfónica de Detroit es una de las pocas orquestas en el país que realmente se compromete con la misión, de ser una orquesta para la ciudad y la comunidad”, dijo López-Yáñez. “Estoy increíblemente emocionado de estar aquí en Detroit”.

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Esta historia fue posible gracias a Race and Justice Reporting Initiative. El objetivo de la iniciativa es generar confianza entre los medios de comunicación y las comunidades de pueblos indígenas, personas de color y fortalecer la democracia representativa.

Martina Guzmán es una periodista y creadora de documentales, galardonada y reconocida a nivel nacional. Es becaria de periodismo John S. Knight 2023 en la Universidad de Stanford. Martina fundó y dirigió la Race & Justice Reporting Initiative en el Centro Damon J. Keith para los Derechos Civiles de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Wayne State en Detroit. Ella cree que se debe aumentar los salarios a los periodistas independientes y que los reporteros comunitarios y autónomos son la columna vertebral de una democracia saludable. Martina es una orgullosa hija de inmigrantes mexicanos y se graduó de la Escuela de Periodismo de la Universidad de Columbia en la ciudad de Nueva York.

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