Juan Carlos Rodriguez is a guitarist, 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 the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón Corazón, where he offers courses in Theory and Solfeggio, Harmony, Graduation Recital and Guitar Labs. In addition, he has been a teacher at the Colegio San Ignacio, where he contributed as a leader in the curricular design of its new music program for intermediate and high school students.
His musical theater credits 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 for 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 composing career with the theater piece Cuatro: Un Musical, commissioned by the Puerto Rico Institute of Culture for its Legacy Project. For more than two decades, he has been a guitarist in Ednita Nazario's band, with whom he has performed 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, whether in recordings or 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, the Philharmonic Orchestra, Cucco Peña, and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, among others.