Music & Wellness

Finding harmony within and beyond ourselves

Dr. Carlos Hernandez was born and raised in Miami, Florida and has been conducting and leading ensembles since he was 15 years old. Hernandez has extensive experience as performer, educator and arts administrator. Carlos holds four degrees in music, all with a major or minor emphasis in conducting. Over the past two decades Carlos has studied orchestral conducting with Gregory Robbins, Douglas Droste, Javier Mendoza & Grzegorz Nowak. 

Hernandez  has previously served as Principal Conductor of the White River Orchestra (formerly East Central Indiana Chamber Orchestra) & Music Director of the Bay Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Ball State Symphony Campus Orchestra & Florida International University Community Filarmonia Orchestra. Hernandez has served as Assistant Conductor with the Ball State Symphony Orchestra, Ball State Opera & Florida International University Symphony Orchestra & Indianapolis Opera. Hernandez has been featured as a Guest Conductor with the Bay Philharmonic, Ball State University New Music Ensemble, Florida International University Concert Choir and at the Biennial Baroque Music Festival in Bolivia with the Orchestra de San Javier & Orchestra de Ascensión de Guarayos. Hernandez most recently served as Rehearsal Cover Conductor with the Livermore Amador Symphony (for Lara Webber) & Cover/AssistantConductor (for Dina Gilbert) with the Berkeley Symphony. Hernandez is currently a freelance conductor and educator in the Bay Area.

Purposeful engagement, rigor, social consciousness, peer to peer empowerment are a few guiding principles in his conversations with colleagues and musicians about (and through) high quality music experiences. Carlos aims to provide inspiring experiences for musicians and audiences within, and beyond the concert hall.