Victor Pablo Pérez has been the artistic director of the JOCAN since 2016 and the honorary conductor of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. He studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Music in Madrid and the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. Between 1980 and 1988, he was artistic director and lead conductor of the Asturias Symphony Orchestra, and between 1986 and 2005 the lead conductor of the Sinfónica de Tenerife. In 1993, he took the reins of the Galician Symphony Orchestra, a role he held until 2013 when he joined the Orchestra and Choir of the Community of Madrid as the artistic director and lead conductor until 2021. He has worked with other Youth Orchestras, such as the Youth Orchestra of Galicia, the Youth Orchestra of Andalusia and the Youth Orchestra of Euskal Herria, among others.
He has collaborated regularly with the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Mozart Festival in La Coruña, as well as in various international music festivals such as the Canaries International Music Festival, those of Perelada, Granada, Santander, Schleswig-Holstein, in the Bruckner Festival in Madrid, the Rossini Opera Festival (ROF), the Festival of San Lorenzo de El Escorial and the Musical Fortnight of San Sebastián.