Pedro Sotelo is a conductor whose work encompasses both the symphonic and operatic repertoire. Raised in Berlin in an environment shaped by Spanish, German and French cultures, he studied conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar with Nicolás Pasquet, Ekhart Wycik and Johannes Klumpp. During his studies, he was selected for the German Music Council's Forum Dirigieren, working with conductors including Bruno Weil, Georg Fritzsch and Cornelius Meister. In 2025, he was one of four participants in the Bayreuth Festival Conducting Masterclass.

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He has conducted orchestras including the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Orchestre National de Mulhouse and Jena Philharmonic. In opera, his work has ranged from his debut with Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Landestheater Coburg (2022) to conducting a new production of Bizet's Carmen at the Teatro López de Ayala in Badajoz (2024), which was revived in 2025.

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Alongside his own conducting engagements, Sotelo has worked as an assistant conductor on productions of Samson at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Wozzeck and Tristan und Isolde at Theater Chemnitz, as well as on a concert performance of Parsifal with the Spanish National Orchestra. He also assisted Vladimir Jurowski in preparing a performance of Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 1 in Weimar, conducting the preliminary orchestral rehearsals. At the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, he served as assistant conductor for Lohengrin under the musical direction of Josep Pons in 2025 and was invited to return the following season for a new production of Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Susanna Mälkki.