Pablo Varela was born in Tijuana, Mexico in 1973. He graduated in Orchestral Conducting at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan and studied Composition with Franco Donatoni at the Lorenzo Perosi Academy in Biella and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, where in 1997 he obtained the prestigious Diploma of Merit. He is current Professor of Orchestral Conducting at the "Umberto Giordano" State Conservatory of Music in Foggia, Italy.