Cellist, composer, and co-founder of the alt classical ensemble Astral Mixtape, Juan-Salvador Carrasco has built a career that moves seamlessly between the concert hall, the recording studio, and the world stage.

In 2025-26, he toured the globe with jazz-pop superstar Laufey as part of the string quartet on her A Matter of Time tour, performing across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australasia. In fall 2026, he joined Sphinx Virtuosi for their national tour.

A dynamic soloist, Juan-Salvador has appeared with orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Broad Stage, and Mexico City’s Auditorio Blas Galindo, and has shared the stage with Itzhak Perlman, Philip Setzer, and Anthony McGill. He is a member of the New West Symphony and performs regularly with the Los Angeles Opera, Pacific Symphony, and other Southern California orchestras, in addition to recording for film and television.

At the crossroads of his many pursuits is Astral Mixtape, which arranges and composes multi-genre works that fuse classical instrumentation with electronics. The group won the 2023 Astral Artists National Auditions and the 2024 Beverly Hills National Auditions, and was awarded a 2025 Honeywell Arts Fellowship. Their 2025 album, Biolumy, now streaming everywhere, is a kaleidoscopic journey through lush orchestral textures, electronic energy, and jazz-inflected lyricism.

As a composer, Juan-Salvador has scored several award-winning short films, including Ends and Means, Fear and Tremble, and The Return. His chamber works have been presented by Salastina and the Heifetz International Music Institute.

A First Prize winner of the 2019 USC Thornton Solo Bach Competition and a multiple-time Sphinx Competition semi-finalist, he has also participated in the Perlman Music Program, the Heifetz Institute, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and London Master Classes. He holds degrees from Northwestern University (B.M.) and the University of Southern California (M.M., G.C.), where his teachers included Ralph Kirshbaum, Hans Jørgen Jensen, Ron Leonard, and Eleonore Schoenfeld.