Tito Muñoz is in his first season as Assistant Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra/American Symphony Orchestra League Conducting Fellow. He was appointed to the post by Franz Welser-Möst in June 2007. As an assistant conductor, Mr. Muñoz will participate in the planning and conducting of education concerts, conduct Christmas concerts, and serve as cover conductor for Severance Hall subscription concerts and Blossom Festival concerts.
Tito Muñoz made his debut with The Cleveland Orchestra during the 2006 Blossom Festival as an Aspen Academy conductor. For the 2006-07 season he served as assistant conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, associate conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra, and assistant conductor of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra.
An alumnus of the National Conducting Institute, Mr. Muñoz has also conducted the National Symphony Orchestra and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. During the summers of 2004 through 2006, Mr. Muñoz was a student at the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival, where he studied with David Zinman and Murry Sidlin and won the 2005 Robert J. Harth Conductor Prize and 2006 Aspen Conducting Prize. He returned to Aspen in 2007 as assistant conductor of the Festival.
A native of New York City, Mr. Muñoz began his musical training on the violin at age 13 in The Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program. He studied violin and composition in the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division, where he was awarded the Richard Kimball Composition Award. He attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and was a member of the InterSchool Orchestras of New York and the New York Youth Symphony. He continued his training at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College (CUNY), as a violin student of Daniel Phillips.
