Jorge Luis Navarro Delgadillo
Jorge Luis Navarro Delgadillo was born in 1994 in the city of Tepatitlán de Morelos, Jalisco, Mexico.
He began his musical studies under his parents at the age of ten, later moving to the City of Guadalajara to continue his musical studies at the Escuela Superior de Música Sagrada, pursuing dual degrees in Gregorian Chant and piano; the latter under the tutelage of professors David Jiménez, Cecilia Langarica and Jorge Luis Godínez.
He has studied with a wide range of teachers including José Luis González Moya, Leonor Montijo, Jorge Federico Osorio, Martha García Renart, Mauricio Náder, Simon Graichy, Miguel Ángel Rivera Bustamante; as well as Michelle Cann and Ray Furuta, both from the Juilliard School in New York.
Jorge has performed with orchestras under Lu Gari, Layth Sidiq and Nino Samadic from the Berklee College of Music; and piano pedagogy under Tatiana Shklovsksya and Daniel Goldstein.
As a member of the Guadalajara Youth Symphony Orchestra (OSIJUG), Jorge has performed across Mexico in 2015, participating in the Festival de los Volcanes de Colima, the Amado Nervo International Festival, Tepic, in the autumn festival in Tepatitlán, and has performed under Rodrigo Sierra Moncayo, José Luis González Moya, Juan Tucan Franco among others.
In August 2016, Jose received a scholarship from San José State University in California through OSIJUG, where he studied and concertized across the United States and with the San Francisco Symphony.
May 2017 he was awarded a scholarship from the state of Jalisco’s Secretary of Culture to undertake a tour across Panama and Costa Rica in conjunction with the Escuela de Música Sacra. In September of that year, he moved to Europe to continue his musical studies in piano technique and performance, with Dimitry Naidich, at the Paris National Conservatory.
In December 2019, Jose was invited to participate in a series of recitals of Mexican music held in the city of Ghent, Belgium, and in November 2021, won the special prize for the best interpretation of Latin American piano repertoire in the international piano competition "América para todos."
In 2022, Jose was awarded his bachelor's degree in piano and Gregorian chant from the Escuela Superior de Música Sagrada.