Maestro Carreón-Robledo is renowned for his engaging performances and fervent connection with instrumentalists, singers, and ballet ensembles. Named one of the 43 most fascinating people in Houston in 2013 by the Houston Chronicle, the only Classical Artist in a list of TV, Film, Sports, and Fashion icons, Maestro Carreón-Robledo is a 2013 Master Mind Award Winner (Houston Press), a 2013 “Best Artistic Director” and 2012 “Most improved company” Houston Theatre Award Winner (Houston Press), and a 2006 Crystal Globe Award Nominee (French Press).A sought-after guest conductor, he has performed, among others, with Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Ballet Nice Mediteranée, the Stuttgart Ballet, West Australian Ballet, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the National Opera of Hong Kong, Tacoma Opera, Charlottesville Opera, Opera Southwest, the American Opera Theatre, the American Ballet Theatre, the New York City Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, National Symphony and Ballet SODRE in Uruguay, and the Tulsa Ballet where he currently serves as Resident Conductor.As an opera conductor he has been described by the specialized press as “something of a crazy Zen calligrapher, a fireball of energy guiding the orchestra and singers through every emotion of the score”. Equally praised for his ballet conducting the French press called his “music making transporting, in perfect symbiosis with the dance on the stage, what else could you ask for!!!”. Maestro Carreón-Robledo served as General and Artistic Director of OPERA San Antonio from 2016 to 2018 was a Visiting Professor of Orchestral Studies at Oklahoma State University (2015-2016) and Artistic Director of Opera in the Heights in Houston (2011-2014).An innate pedagogue and academic, he has performed and taught in prestigious institutions like the University of Texas, the National Conservatory of Mexico, the University of London Symphony Orchestra, and the University of Sonora.Mo. Carreón-Robledo attended the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He continued undergraduate studies in Composition and Music Theory at California State University-Northridge, and earned a Master of Music degree in Opera Production from the University of Mississippi. He completed doctoral studies at The University of Texas at Austin, obtaining the unanimous highest grade for his Doctoral Comprehensive Exams.He was awarded the 1997-1998 Annual Grant for Orchestral Conductors of the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes FONCA (National Foundation for the Arts and Culture) in Mexico.