Dietrich Paredes conducted his European orchestra debut with the Orchestra della Toscana at the Cortona Festival in Summer 2014, a project which resulted in an immediate re-invitation from the orchestra for their 15/16 subscription series in Florence. This success also led to invitations from the orchestras of the Teatro Communale in Bologna, the Opera di Roma, as well as from the Maggio Musicale Festival to conduct the Carlo Maria Giulini memorial concert with the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana. Other projects in the 15/16 season included debuts with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and the Toulon Symphony Orchestra in France.

Upcoming highlights include an extensive project with the Australian Youth Orchestra, as well as engagements with I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, the Teatro Olimpico Orchestra in Vincenza, and a return to the Orchestra della Toscana in Florence.

Dietrich Paredes is the Music Director of the Caracas Symphony Orchestra, one of the flagship orchestras from El Sistema, Venezuela’s celebrated movement of youth orchestras and choirs. He began his tenure with the CSO in 2008, and together they regularly tour South America, Asia and extensively throughout Europe at prestigious venues and festivals including the Salzburg Festival, Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, the Dvorak Festival in Prague and the Beethovenfest in Bonn.

Dietrich Paredes was a 12/13 Conducting Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, with whom he served as assistant to Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vasily Petrenko, John Adams, as well as to Gustavo Dudamel on an extensive tour of Europe.