Thanks to her multifaceted musical personality, Yudania Gómez Heredia can be seen not only as a conductor of various ensembles, but also as a composer and organist.

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She was awarded the scholarship for young female conductors from the Bergische Symphoniker Orchestra Academy for the 2024/2025 season and is a member of the Chineke! Orchestra’s Assistant Conductor Scheme. In September 2025, she assisted Jonathon Heyward and the Chineke! Orchestra at the BBC Proms.

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She made her debut in 2022 with the production Mid(Summer)night Dreams, a collaboration between the Nuremberg State Theatre and the Nuremberg University of Music focusing on chamber operas by contemporary composers. Further engagements include Bovary at the Gostner Hoftheater Nuremberg and work as musical assistant for Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges at the Fürth City Theater under the direction of Guido Rumstadt. In the 2024/2025 season, she conducted Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at the Stuttgart State Opera (JOiN) in a production by Olivia Hyunsin Kim.

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Yudania has conducted a wide range of ensembles, including the Mitteldeutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Ensemble Reflektor, the Chineke! Junior Orchestra, the Neustädter Kantorei Erlangen, the Junge Norddeutsche Philharmonie, as well as symphonic wind orchestras in Valencia and São Paulo.

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Born in Villa Clara, Cuba, she began her musical training at the National School of Arts, studying singing, music theory, choral conducting, and composition. She continued her studies at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana before moving to Germany in 2015. In Regensburg, she studied church music with a focus on organ improvisation, followed by two master’s degrees at the Nuremberg University of Music in choral conducting and orchestral conducting.

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Her awards include first prize at the International Choir Conducting Competition Krikor Zetinyan in Plovdiv, first prize at the International Masterclass for Choral Conducting with Conducting Competition Marktoberdorf 2025, the 2023 DAAD Prize of the Nuremberg University of Music, and the 2014 Musicalia Composition Prize in Havana.

 

Yudania is currently conducting Rosalía’s Lux Tour with the Heritage Orchestra. She was selected as a mentee for the Taki Alsop Fellowship Mentoring Program 2027 under the direction of Marin Alsop.

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