A product of New York's public schools, conductor Tito Muñoz has been active in Europe as well as in his native U.S. Muñoz made his first appearance as a conductor in a performance of West Side Story. His first professional position came in 2006 when Paavo Järvi appointed him as assistant conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The following year, he made his debut with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, leading a Celtic Tenors concert. In 2014, Muñoz was named music director of the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra; he continued in that position as of 2022. Often programming contemporary works, Muñoz has particularly championed the music of Michael Hersch. He conducted a 2018 recording of Hersch's End Stages and Violin Concerto, featuring Patricia Kopatchinskaja, and returned in 2022 with a recording of Hersch's The Script of Storms.