In 2016, the Tucson Flute Club welcomed Juan Montoya as their new Music Director. Mr. Montoya is graduate student in the Ph.D. conducting program at the University of Arizona. A composer and pianist as well as a conductor, over the past eight years Mr. Montoya has served as a judge/clinician and/or conductor in his native Colombia as well as in Chile, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Toledo, OH, where he earned a Master’s degree at the University of Toledo. In addition to his graduate studies and TFC responsibilities, Mr. Montoya is currently principal conductor of the Kuala Lumpur City Opera in Malaysia.