Juan Alzate is considred of the most important jazz saxophone players and educator in Mexico and in Latin-America countries, he was teaching at Conservatorio de Las Rosas, Michoacan State University and Escuela DIM at Mexico City, now he is teaching at Queretaro State University at Fine Arts School and give masterclasses and concerts around Mexico and other Latin-American countries he studied at Escuela Popular de Bellas Artes, Conservatorio de Las Rosas and Berklee College in Boston where his teachers included Jim Odgren, Bill Pierce, Hal Crook, and studied privately with Jerry Bergonzi. Juan also attended Dave Liebman's course at East Stroudsburg University. Juan has shared the music set with Mark Levine, Antonio Sánchez, John Benítez, Ignacio Berroa, Bruce Forman, Greg Osby, Muhal Richard Abrams, Hugh Fraser, Paquito D' Rivera, Luis Perdomo, Bobby Watson and many others. Juan has recorded ten CDs: El eco en la piel; Bajo el signo del jazz, with Mark Levine; Autorretratos; Hablar en Jazz, Jugadores de Jazz, Minnewanka, recorded at Canada's Banff Centre of Arts, Premonición, El jazz y la furia, Variaciones and En el Conservatorio... with the great Mark Levine. Juan has soloed with different ensambles at Venezuela, Mexico, China, Taiwan, USA and Canada, from big band, symphonic orchestras, jazz, salsa to contemporary music. Alzate's philosophy is: “One of the marvelous things about being a musician is that you can play universal music and make new friends.”