Juan-Salvador has forged a wide-ranging career that includes solo, chamber, and orchestral performance, performing and recording with pop artists, scoring films, composing concert works, and co-founding the pioneering alt. classical band Astral Mixtape.
Astral Mixtape is known for its bold fusion of classical instrumentation, electronics, and improvisation. The group won the 2023 Astral Artists National Auditions, the 2024 Beverly Hills National Auditions, and the 2025 Honeywell Arts Academy Fellowship. Their 2025 sophomore album, Biolumy, is a kaleidoscopic journey through lush orchestral textures, electronic energy, and jazz-inflected lyricism.
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In 2025/2026, Juan-Salvador toured as part of the string quartet on jazz-pop icon Laufey's A Matter of Time world tour, which spanned North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australasia.
Juan-Salvador has shared the stage with Itzhak Perlman, Charlie Puth, Philip Setzer (Emerson Quartet), Steve Lacey, Anthony McGill, and Robert Chen (Chicago Symphony Concertmaster).
As a soloist, he has performed the Schumann, Dvorak, Elgar, Haydn C Major, Saint-Saëns, and Vivaldi Double Cello Concertos with orchestras in both the U.S. and Mexico.
Juan-Salvador is currently a member of the New West Symphony and performs regularly with several Southern California orchestras, such as the Los Angeles Opera and Pacific Symphony.
From 2018-2020, he was a Los Angeles Orchestra Fellow. Through the fellowship, Juan-Salvador performed in the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, mentored the young talents at ICYOLA (Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles), and studied with Ralph Kirshbaum at the University of Southern California. In July 2019, the four LA Orchestra Fellows performed Michael Abels’s Urban Legends, a concerto for string quartet and orchestra, in Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Juan-Salvador was awarded First Prize at USC Thornton’s 2019 Solo Bach Competition and has competed as a semi-finalist in the Nationwide Sphinx Competition.
Juan-Salvador has attended summer festivals such as the Perlman Music Program, Heifetz Institute Chamber Music Seminar, Bowdoin International Music Festival, London Master Classes,(England), and PyeongChang Music Festival (Korea). Juan-Salvador joined the Heifetz Ensemble in Residence program in the spring of 2022.
As a composer, Juan-Salvador has composed, produced, and performed the soundtracks for many award-winning short films, including Ends and Means, Azizam, Leaving the Factory, Never Silly, and Retakes. His piece, Hyde Park, was recently performed by the musicians of Salastina in their 2023/2024 season.