Juan Carlos Rodríguez is a guitarist, orchestra conductor, composer, arranger and educator. He holds a Master’s degree in Music Education from Cambridge College, Boston MA. He has accumulated over twenty-five years of experience as an educator. He has been a part-time professor in the music programs at the Universidad Interamericana and currently at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, where he offers courses in Theory and Solfeggio, Harmony, Graduation Recital and Guitar Labs. In addition, he has been a teacher at Colegio San Ignacio, where he contributed as a leader in the curricular design of its new music program for middle and high school students.

His credits in the Musical Theatre environment include productions such as Evita, Rent, Godspell, Annie, Peter Pan, La Cage Aux Folles, Footloose, Mary Poppins, Sister Act, Once on this Island, Spring Awakenings, Jesus Christ Superstar, Mamma Mia, Fiddler on the Roof, Sound of Music, Little Women, Into The Woods and Phantom of the Opera. He was part of the orchestra of the most recent productions in Puerto Rico such as In the Heights, Cabaret, On Your Feet, La Guagua Aérea and West Side Story. In 2021, he debuted his facet as a composer with the theater piece: Cuatro: Un Musical, commissioned by the Institute of Culture of PR for its Legacy Project. For more than two decades, he has been a guitarist in Ednita Nazario’s band, with whom he has played on important stages such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, House of Blues, Lehman Center and the Coliseo de Puerto Rico. As an independent musician, his list of collaborations with artists in recordings and live performances includes Luis Fonsi, Beto Cuevas (La Ley), Lucecita Benítez, Olga Tañón, José Feliciano, Pandora, Ivy Queen, Chucho Avellanet, Lissette, Il Divo, Tommy Torres, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Braulio, Black Guayaba, Danny Rivera, Roy Brown, Orquesta Filarmónica, Cucco Peña and Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico, among others.