Director artístico. Estudió Composición, Análisis y Dirección de Orquesta en Valencia, Salzburgo, Luxemburgo y París con Manuel Galduf y Alexander Müllenbach. Radica en México desde 1997. Director artístico del Centro de Experimentación y Producción de Música Contemporánea y director titular de la Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco. Ha sido reconocido en dos ocasiones por la Unión Mexicana de Críticos de Teatro y Música y premiado en Luxemburgo, Holanda e Italia. Más de setenta orquestas en veinticinco países y una discografía de quince títulos avalan la trayectoria de Castillo quien, además cuenta con un amplio catálogo de películas silentes con musicalización en vivo, más de 200 estrenos mundiales y cientos de estrenos en México. Como compositor, sus obras se interpretan en importantes foros y festivales de música contemporánea. Es profesor de composición en la Escuela Superior de Música del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), realiza la edición crítica de las obras de Silvestre Revueltas en colaboración con Roberto Kolb y es director artístico del Ensamble Cepromusic.

Pianist. He studied with Néstor Castañeda at the National School of Music of the UNAM and with Ludovica Mosca in Barcelona, ​​Spain. He has been a soloist with the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Sonora Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber of Fine Arts Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, and other orchestras. He has premiered several works; Leonardo Coral, Georgina Derbez, and Marcela Rodríguez have dedicated works to him. In 2013, he directed the show Huey Mecatl at the Festival de México and the Aarhus Festuge in Denmark. As a resident of the Cepromusic Ensemble, he has performed at the Huddersfield Festival in England and the Darmstadt Festival in Germany. He has toured Brazil, Scotland, Colombia, Spain, and the United States, and has participated in festivals in Mexico, Spain, and France.

Soprano. She studied music at the Conservatorio de las Rosas and the National School of Music of the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) with Thusnelda Nieto. She is a first-generation graduate of the Estudio Ópera de Bellas Artes and has received several scholarships. She has toured Spain, Italy, Germany, and Peru. Her repertoire includes works by Orff, Haydn, and other composers, as well as operas by Federico Ibarra, Bruno Maderna, and others. She has collaborated with the Cepromusic Ensemble, the National Symphony Orchestra, and other ensembles. In 2019, she recorded her most recent album, Las pasiones del alma. Entre la esperanza y el miedo (The Passions of the Soul. Between Hope and Fear), with the antique music orchestra Antiqva Metropoli.

Mezzo-soprano. She graduated from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where she earned a doctorate, specializing in contemporary vocal repertoire. She has also performed music from the Middle Ages to the present day. She is currently a member of the vocal quartet Quince Ensemble, with whom she has performed Morton Feldman's Three Voices and David Lang's Love Fail (which premiered in Poland). She has also participated in numerous university residencies and festivals in various cities across the United States. She is also a founding member of the Damselfly Trio for flute, harp, and voice. She teaches voice classes at Winona State University and the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, and also maintains a private online studio in Minnesota.

Baritone. He studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Yale School of Music. He has shared the stage with Christina Pluhar, L’Arpeggiata, Paul O’Dette, Steven Stubbs, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, and John Eliot Gardinery the English Baroque Soloists, among other early music artists and ensembles. He has appeared at the Salzburg, Berlin, and Lucerne Festivals. His repertoire includes Claude Vivier’s Kopernikus, Luciano Berio’s Symphony, Igor Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Iannis Xenakis’s Oresteia, and other 20th and 21st-century works. He is the founding associate artistic director of the Lakes Area Music Festival, an associate artist with Heartbeat Opera, and an avid singer of the North American vocal tradition known as Sacred Harp.