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ORQUESTA MODERNA
Rosino Serrano presents his personal project, ORQUESTA MODERNA . Under his direction, this large ensemble takes the form of a big band made up of some of the finest jazz musicians in the country, achieving a unique sound in which jazz merges with a variety of Mexican and Latin American genres.
The ensemble frequently features an exceptional roster of guest soloists, including Italian harmonica player Gianluca Littera, singer Iraida Noriega, pianist Alex Mercado, guitarist Francisco Lelo de Larrea, vihuela master Fernando de Santiago, bassist Aarón Cruz, and vibraphonist Emiliano Suárez.
The first ORQUESTA MODERNA album (2019) features original works by Serrano, as well as his arrangements of music by Mexican jazz icons Eugenio Toussaint and Enrique Nery. In 2026, ORQUESTA MODERNA released two new albums: Coalescencia, featuring works for piano and big band by Alex Mercado; and Alma, with music by Serrano and the participation of renowned international soloists such as flutist Jorge Pardo, guitarist José Antonio Rodríguez, and drummer Antonio Sánchez.
The concert repertoire also includes arrangements of classic Mexican songs, featuring works by Armando Manzanero and Consuelo Velázquez. Critically acclaimed, ORQUESTA MODERNA is a long-awaited project that already holds an important place in today’s jazz landscape.
ROSINO SERRANO
Composer, Arranger, Conductor
A multiple Latin Grammy Award nominee, Rosino Serrano was born in Madrid, Spain, and has been an active figure in the Mexican music scene since the early 1980s. He studied piano at the Madrid and Málaga Conservatories, the National School of Music at UNAM, and the Vida y Movimiento School of Music. He is also a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, where he specialized in Jazz Composition.
Early in his career, he was a member of the legendary groups Banda Elástica and Rumba Abierta, and collaborated closely with singer Betsy Pecanins.
Either as a pianist, composer, arranger, musical director, or producer, Serrano has worked with some of the most prominent figures in contemporary Ibero-American popular music, including Eugenia León, Armando Manzanero, Carlos Santana, Ivan Lins, Rocío Dúrcal, Aida Cuevas, Tania Libertad, Camila, Sin Bandera, Niña Pastori, Kalimba, Óscar Chávez, El Tri, Emmanuel, and Mijares, among many others. Many of the productions in which he has participated have achieved widespread popularity.
Serrano has written more than 400 arrangements for such artists and a wide range of ensembles, including MSM Jazz Orchestra, Bobby Sanabria Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Band, Big Band Jazz de México, Zinco Big Band, PostClassical Ensemble, Ónix Ensemble, San Francisco Symphony, Orchestra, Orquesta de RTVE Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM, Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa , Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de Mexico,, Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes, Orquesta Típica de la Ciudada de México, and Banda Sinfónica del Estado de Oaxaca.
He has composed music for over 30 films, including Santitos, Walkout, Adán y Eva (todavía), and The Crime of Father Amaro, the latter nominated for an Academy Award. For his film work, he has received the Mayahuel Award and has been nominated for the Ariel Award. As a producer, he has worked on more than 40 recordings for both independent and major labels, including Sony Music, BMG, EMI, Universal Music Group, and Milan Records, spanning genres from jazz, rock, and pop to Latin American traditional music, opera, chamber, and symphonic music.
During his residence in New York (1997–2004), he worked with production companies Big Rumble Music and Razorhead Music, creating music for major advertising campaigns for brands such as Budweiser, Miller, Coors, Jack Daniel’s, Panasonic, Samsung, Chrysler, Disney, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, and USPS. He also served as musical director of the Thalía Spanish Theatre.
Since 2012, Serrano has been music director and composer for the Los Angeles–based Latino Theater Company, with stage credits including A Mexican Trilogy: An American Story and the musical Destiny of Desire. He continues to serve as musical director and pianist for Eugenia León, with whom he has collaborated since the 1990s, producing several albums and touring internationally.
With more than 35 years of teaching experience, he has served as academic director at DIM Music School and currently leads his own Composers Workshop. He is a professor at the Faculty of Music at UNAM, Tecnológico de Monterrey, and Conservatorio de Música Contemporánea. Since 2015, he has been a member of Mexico’s National System of Art Creators. In 2018, he founded ORQUESTAMODERNA.
2020 Nominated Best Arrangement
GUAPANGUITO
2022 Nominated Best Arrangement
LLÉVATELA