Carlos Miguel Prieto is a Mexican conductor and violinist known for his dynamism and prolific career in conducting. Son of Mexican cellist Carlos Prieto, Carlos Miguel Prieto became a member of the Prieto quartet at a young age. He is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Universities. Since 2002, he has served as Principal Conductor for YOA Orchestra of the Americas. Prieto is the founder and director of the Mozart-Haydn festival of Mexico. In July 2007, he was named music director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, was also music director of the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra between 2002 and 2007 and with the Mexico Philharmonic from 1998 to 2002. The Mexican Union and Theater Critics voted him "Conductor of the year 2002" and in 1998 he received the Mozart Medal of Honor presented by the Government of Mexico and the Embassy of Austria. He has recently made a series of recordings of Latin American and Mexican music for the Urtext label. He is Music Director of the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic, the Mineria Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico.