Esperanza de Velasco was born in Mexico City on May 11th 1984. She began studying piano at an early age at the Center of Research and Musical Studies (CIEM). She studied composition and harmony with Humberto Hernandez Medrano and she got her Bachelor’s Degree in composition and piano at Academia de Musica Fermatta. Later on she won a full scholarship at the Mexican National System of Music, where she was student conductor with the Carlos Chavez Youth Symphony Orchestra for four years. She conducted her first symphony “Cycles” debuted in 2012 with the Carlos Chavez Youth Symphony Orchestra. In 2014 her second orchestral work “The Mangy Parrot” was the 3rd prize winner of the Latin American Composition Contest for Youth Orchestra. She was guest conductor for its world premiere. She has appeared as a guest conductor with the Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra, the Puebla Symphony Orchestra, the Queretaro Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Mexican Youth Symphony Orchestra (OSIM).Esperanza is also an arranger, she has orchestrated music for tenor Fernando de la Mora, Lila Downs, Eugenia León, Saúl Hernández, and Carla Dirlikov. She has written orchestrations for the National Autonomus University of Mexico (UNAM) in several occasions. In 2012 she wrote her the music score for the Mexican film “The man behind the mask” , which was recorded in her music studio Fonobox in Mexico City. She also composes and produces music for films, advertising, theatre and public events. She has had the academic guidance of Cliff Colnot, Kenneth Kiesler, Francisco Savin, Alfredo Ibarra, Jorge Ledezma Bradley, Kenneth Jean, Thomas Cockrell, Eric Allen, amongst others. She continued her studies in orchestration with Jorge Torres Saenz and composition with Mexican composer Arturo Márquez. In 2013 she was founder of the Concert Series Project "Meet the Composer" in order to give recognition and dissemination of Mexican composers, like Arturo Márquez and Eugenio Toussaint.