Experience

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  Telluride Real Estate Corp. / Forbes Global Pro...

  • Director Of Development At The Soraya Center For The Performing Arts
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  Ballet Hispánico

  • New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Director of Development

    • Sep 2023 - Present
    • New York City Metropolitan Area
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  Bridges Consulting

  • Los Angeles, CA

  • Consultant/Founder

    • 2016 - Present
    • Los Angeles, CA

    • Promoter and Producer Binational Us-Mex• US liaison for Classical Music and Opera productions in Latin America• Fundraising Consulting• Project Development

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  San Diego Opera

  • San Diego Metropolitan Area

  • Senior Development Executive, Director of Hispanic Initiatives, Senior Develo...

    • Apr 2018 - Sep 2023
    • San Diego Metropolitan Area

    • Successful oversight of more than 150 major gift donor relationships in the $2,500, $5,000, $10,000, $50,000 and $100,000 gift range• Created and delivered detailed giving plans for new major gift acquisitions and upgraded gift opportunities while consolidatingexisting portfolio, achieving a 90...

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  Various Institutions

  • Fundraising

    • 2016 - 2018

    Over ten years of cultivating, developing, and stewarding relationships with current and prospect donors internationally. US Mexico Chamber of Commerce Ambassador and VP Development• Designed and executed a crowd funding campaign for Gotham Chamber Opera NY, raised $30,000. 2015• Managed the major gifts fundraising campaign for the production of maestro Daniel Catán’s last opera Meet John Doe, to be premiered at Cincinnati Opera. 2014-2015• Cultivated donors for the production of Florencia en el Amazonas for the Los Angeles Opera. 2014.• Produced Alma de México for the International Diplomatic Corps to support the Women’s Committee fundraising team of Los Angeles Philharmonic, raised $52,000. 2010

  • Lectures and Public Presentations

    • 2012 - 2016

    Giving pre- opera concert lectures, participating in panels and lectures to opera companies and universities as well as radio programs and TV networks in English and Spanish.• Public speaker to promote productions by maestro Daniel Catán including lectures, conferences and Q&A sessions for Florencia en el Amazonas and Meet John Doe. 2014-2015• Lecturer on the opera Rappaccini’s Daughter at the University of Houston. 2015• Master class on the opera Il Postino by maestro Daniel Catán at the Mannes School of Music, New York. 2014• Lecturer on the life and composing process of the opera Salsipuedes by maestro Daniel Catán at the University of Houston. 2012• TV appearances to promote different projects. Univision, Telemundo, Mundo Fox and Canal 54 in the USA; Canal 22, Canal Once in Mexico and TVE in Spain.• Writer of musical reviews for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, La Opinión in the USA; Reforma, La Jornada, Excelsior, El Universal in Mexico and El País in Spain.• Produced, wrote, designed and performed programs to promote Hispanic and Latino culture for different audiences at museums, public libraries, schools, music institutions, and Latin American embassies in the USA and Mexico.

  • Grants

    • 1992 - 2014

    Over 20 years writing, soliciting and obtaining all the grants submitted.• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Opera Fusion New Works Grant. Associate editor and project coordinator for the completion of Meet John Doe, an unfinished opera by Daniel Catán in cooperation with Cincinnati Opera and the Cincinnati Conservatory. 2014• FONCA (National Fund for Arts and Culture, Mexico) Projects and Investment Grant. Prepared and organized the Daniel Catán archive, housed at the Harry Ransom Collection Center, University of Texas, Austin. 2013-2014• Rockefeller Foundation Mexico-USA Fellowship. Commissioned new works for harp by Mexican contemporary composers for a one-year concert series program Harp without Boundaries. 2001 • FONCA (National Fund for Arts and Culture, Mexico) Young Interpreters Grant. Designed and performed a one-year chamber music concert-lecture series titled Music with Cello. 1994• FONCA (National Fund for Arts and Culture, Mexico). Designed and performed a one-year music concert program titled Harp Solo Concerts. 1992

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  Gotham Chamber Opera

  • New York, NY

  • Academic Interships

    • 2015 - 2015
    • New York, NY

    • Designed and implemented a two-week pilot fundraising campaign• Organized a special event: a trip to Philadelphia for the board of directors of the New York City Opera• Became the Hispanic liaison for corporate partnerships and cultural institutions in New York City

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  Various

  • Musicianship

    • 1990 - 2015

    Developing high team working skills holding various tenure positions as a harpist in different orchestras and chamber music in Mexico, Spain and the USA. • Santa Cecilia Orchestra. Los Angeles, California from 2003-2015.• Orquesta del Teatro de Bellas Artes. Mexico City. Principal Harp Chair, 199...