Sergio Vela is a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 opera director, designer, radio and television host, musician, lawyer and academician. He was the President of the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA) during beginning of the presidency of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and resigned in 2009.

He was director of the Bellas Artes Opera; from 1992 to 2000, he was Director General of the Festival Internacional Cervantino

Festival Internacional Cervantino

The Festival Internacional Cervantino takes place each fall in the city of Guanajuato, located in central Mexico. This is a small colonial-era city with history of having a large cultural scene. The origins of the festival are from the mid 20th century, when short plays by Miguel de Cervantes...

, Coordinator of the 2000 Cultural Program: From the 20th Century to the Third Millennium and is Artistic Advisor to the Mining Palace Academy of Music and Artistic Director of the Morelia Music Festival. From 2001 to 2006, he was Director General of Music of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

National Autonomous University of Mexico

The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is a university in Mexico. UNAM was founded on 22 September 1910 by Justo Sierra as a liberal alternative to the Roman Catholic-sponsored Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (National Autonomous...

 and he was President of the National Council for Culture and the Arts from December 2006 to March 2009.

He has given several courses and conferences on opera and music at various academic institutions, such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Universidad Panamericana, the Iberoamerican University, the Mozart Philharmonic Association and Casa Lamm.

Awards

• He received the Mozart Medal from the Austrian Embassy in 2006 for his work as an artistic promoter.
• In 1998, he was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters from France.
• In 1999, the Federal Cross of Merit from Germany.
• In 2000, the Order of Merit
  Order of Merit
  The Order of Merit is a British dynastic order recognising distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or for the promotion of culture...
  
   from Italy.
• In 2006, the Order of Isabella the Catholic from Spain.

Publications

He has written several essays on art and humanities, such as:

• Donde se dice que el sol es nuevo cada día
• Celebración del arte fausta
• El arte lógica
• Recensión a manera de pre-ludio
• Otras Noches Áticas
• Glosa mínima a Arístides y Kant
• Res Severa uerum gaudium: “The Visitors” de Carlos Chávez
• El sibarita o del champaña
• Goethe y la música
• Eirene ancilla sophiae
• Isagoge y cincuenta cuestiones a vuelapluma en torno al arte y el ácido desoxirribonucléico, a cincuenta años de un fasto inmarcesible

External links

• National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA)
• Wikipedia (Spanish) Article