Jorge Hoyo is a leading performer of contemporary and classical music for saxophone. He is equally interested in promoting 20th-century music and collaborating with composers to develop a musical language for the 21st century. He is the founder of EMAC, a Mexico City-based ensemble devoted to contemporary music.

In 2022, EMAC released Cross-Atlantic, an album of electroacoustic music with pieces specially written for the ensemble by composers Enrique Mendoza (Mexico), Matthias Kranebitter (Austria), Andys Skordis (Cyprus), and Juan Campoverde (Ecuador/USA).

Mr. Hoyo has also premiered pieces by Francine Trester, John McDonald, and Howard Frazin (USA); José Luis García (Spain), Geoffrey François (France/Belgium), Shih-Hui Chen (Taiwan/USA), Halim El-Dahb (Egypt), Pedro Rivadeneira (Argentina/USA), Alejandro Morales, and David Hernández (Mexico).

He has been invited to perform in venues such as the Ars Musica festival (Brussels), the World Saxophone Congress in Bangkok (2009) and Strasbourg (2015), the International University Saxophone Meeting organized by UNAM (Mexico), and the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference in Columbia (Columbia, South Carolina).

An engaged educator, Mr. Hoyo has taught at the National Conservatory of Nantes and in municipal schools in the Brittany area (France). He has also been invited to give lectures and master classes at the National University of Mexico and the University of Puebla (Mexico), the Coservatory of Malaga (Spain), and the University of Costa Rica.

Mr. Hoyo studied saxophone with Kenneth Radnofsky and Jean-Michel Goury. He has also received the advice of Pierre-Stéphane Meugé, Joël Versavaud, Marie-Bernadette Charrier, and the Habanera Saxophone Quartet. Mr. Hoyo holds degrees from the University of Granada, Spain (Master’s in Music Education), National Conservatory of Boulogne-Billancourt, France (Premier Prix de Saxophone and Perfectionnement), and the Boston Conservatory (BM).

He has lived in Mexico City since 2013, where he teaches and performs regularly. He also collaborates with the major orchestras in Mexico.