Luis Toro Araya was born in San Vicente de Tagua Tagua in Chile in 1995 and initially studied the violin at the arts faculty of the University of Chile and the Modern School of Music and Dance with Alberto Dourthé Castrillón. From 2014 to 2017 he played in the Orquesta Sinfónico Nacional de Chile. In 2015 he began studying conducting with teachers such as Jorge Rotter, Leonid Grin, Garrett Keast and Helmuth Reichel Silva, whom he regularly assisted in Chile and Europe. He also studied orchestral conducting at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar with Nicolás Pasquet and at the Zurich University of the Arts with Johannes Schlaefli, as well as attending masterclasses given by conductors such as Bernard Haitink, James Lowe, Larry Rachleff and Zsolt Nagy.
In 2020 Luis Toro Araya took part in the Ninth Sir Georg Solti International Conductors Competition in Frankfurt and in 2021 was selected to be a candidate for the First International Conducting Competition Rotterdam.
During the 2018/19 season he made his debut in his homeland with the Orquesta Clásica Universidad de Santiago de Chile and with the Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de La Serena. He has also worked with orchestras such as the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Olten Filarmoni Orkestrası in Izmir, the Staatskapelle Weimar and the Southwest German Philharmonic in Constance. Since 2019 he has been chief conductor of the Köniz Youth Orchestra in Bern.
