Juan Horie

Juan Horie is a Venezuelan/American Cellist who was trained in Venezuela's aclaimed SISTEMA, studying modern cello in the Academia Latinoamericana de Violoncello with Maestros Leandro Bandres and William Molina Cestari. Following his passion for Ancient Music he entered the Latin American Academy of Ancient Music (ALMA) and studied baroque cello with Maestro Manuel Hernandez. While Juan was studying at IUDEM and Simon Bolivar Conservatory, he was a member of the Teresa Carreño Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Simón Bolívar Baroque Orchestra. His international engagements as member of the Teresa Carreño Youth Symphony Orchestra include playing at the Beethoven Fest in Bonn, Salzburg Festspiele, Teatro Alla Scala of Milan, Berlin Philharmonie, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Concergebouw in Amsterdam, among other halls in Europe and Asia under the battons of reknowned conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Claudio Abbado, Simon Rattle, Christian Vasquez... As a member of the Simon Bolivar Baroque Orchestra (formerly known as Espiritu Barroco), he had the opportunity to share stage with ancient music specialists such as Marshall Marcus, Gaetano Nassilo, Alfredo Bernardini, Robin Michael, Roger Hamilton. As a student he joined the Cello Sections of professional orchestras the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Venezuela as Substitute on several occasions. In 2015 he wins a chair in the cello section of the Teresa Carreno Symphony Orchestra, a professional orchestra constituted by a national selection of the third generation of musicians formed in Venezuela’s SISTEMA. In 2017 Juan is forced to emigrate from Venezuela to escape from the political/economical/social situation and moves to the United States. He now resides in Chicago and works for Ravinia Festival the Associate String Conductor in the Lake County Nucleo of Sistema Ravinia and enjoys performing chamber music as a freelance musician in the Chicago Land area.