# Yudania Gómez Heredia

**Categories:** orchestra director, Arts

Yudania Gómez Heredia is a Cuban conductor, composer, and organist born in Villa Clara, Cuba. She began her musical training at the National School of Arts, studying singing, music theory, choral conducting, and composition, before continuing at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. In 2015 she moved to Germany, where she studied church music with a focus on organ improvisation in Regensburg, followed by two master's degrees in choral and orchestral conducting at the Nuremberg University of Music.

Her awards include first prize at the International Choir Conducting Competition Krikor Zetinyan in Plovdiv, first prize at the International Masterclass for Choral Conducting with Conducting Competition Marktoberdorf 2025, and the 2023 DAAD Prize of the Nuremberg University of Music. She is also a member of the Chineke! Orchestra's Assistant Conductor Scheme and assisted Jonathon Heyward at the BBC Proms in September 2025.

In 2025 she was selected as the conductor for Rosalía's Lux Tour with the Heritage Orchestra, establishing herself as one of the most prominent Cuban figures on the international contemporary music scene.