Giancarlo Guerrero
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Biography and career
Giancarlo Guerrero was born in Costa Rica, and had his musical training through El SistemaEl Sistema
El Sistema is a publicly financed voluntary sector music education program in Venezuela, originally called Social Action for Music. Its official name is Fundación del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de las Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela, , and sometimes translated to English as...
in Venezuela. He has degrees from Baylor University and Northwestern University. In June 2004, Mr. Guerrero was awarded the Helen M. Thompson Award by the American Symphony Orchestra League, which recognizes outstanding achievement among young conductors nationwide.
Guerrero is currently the music director of the Nashville Symphony. Previously, music director of the Táchira Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela, music director of the Eugene Symphony, and associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra. In the 2011-2012 season, he will be Principal Guest Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra’s Miami Residency. Guerrero has worked with many major North American orchestras, including those in Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, San Diego, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, and the National Symphony in Washington, DC. He has performed at a number of major festivals, such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Festival, and Indiana University summer orchestra festival. He also works with the Costa Rican Lyric Opera, and has performed the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
Giancarlo Guerrero has recorded a number of CDs, on the Naxos
Naxos Records
Naxos Records is a record label specializing in classical music. Through a number of imprints, Naxos also releases genres including Chinese music, jazz, world music, and early rock & roll. The company was founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, a German-born resident of Hong Kong.Naxos is the largest...
label. His first recording with the Nashville Symphony, of Michael Daugherty
Michael Daugherty
Michael Kevin Daugherty is an American composer, pianist, and teacher. Influenced by popular culture, Romanticism, and Postmodernism, Daugherty is one of the most colorful and widely performed American concert music composers of his generation...
’s Metropolis Symphony and Deux Ex Machina, won three Grammy Awards in 2011, including the category of Best Orchestral Performance. He has also recorded works by Astor Pizaolla and Joseph Schwantner
Joseph Schwantner
Joseph C. Schwantner is a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer and educator and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the 1970 Charles Ives Prize....
.