Giancarlo Guerrero is the Music Director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO) and this season, adds the title of Principal Guest Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency, a newly created position. Now in his third season with the Nashville Symphony, Mr. Guerrero led the orchestra to a Grammy nomination for the second year in a row with the recording of American composer Joseph Schwantner’s Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra. Last year, his recording with the Nashville Symphony of Michael Daugherty’s Metropolis Symphony and Deux Ex Machina won three 2011 Grammy Awards, including the category of Best Orchestral Performance. A fervent advocate of new music and contemporary composers, Mr. Guerrero has collaborated with and championed the works of several of America’s most respected composers, including John Adams, John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Daugherty, Roberto Sierra, and Richard Danielpour.
In the 2011-12 season, Mr. Guerrero embarks on a five-city European tour with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. He makes debut appearances with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Strasbourg Philharmonic, and returns to the Slovenian Philharmonic. North American engagements include the Boston, Cincinnati, Houston and Pacific Symphony Orchestras. In Nashville, he opened the season with a gala concert featuring Yo-Yo Ma and will debut three world premieres with the Nashville Symphony this season: Concerto for Banjo written and performed by celebrated banjoist Béla Fleck; a new work by Richard Danielpour; and Terry Riley’s Electric Violin Concerto with Tracey Silverman, which will also be presented at Carnegie Hall as part of the Spring for Music Festival. With the Cleveland Orchestra, where Mr. Guerrero has appeared in each of the past five years, he will conduct subscription concerts in both Severance Hall and for Miami Residency performances at the Arsht Center, as well as plan and engage in education and community programs in the Miami-Dade area. He also returns to the Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, where he now guest conducts each year ... read full bio
Giancarlo Guerrero is the Music Director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO) and this season, adds the title of Principal Guest Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency, a newly created position. Now in his third season with the Nashville Symphony, Mr. Guerrero led the orchestra to a Grammy nomination for the second year in a row with the recording of American composer Joseph Schwantner’s Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra. Last year, his recording with the Nashville Symphony of Michael Daugherty’s Metropolis Symphony and Deux Ex Machina won three 2011 Grammy Awards, including the category of Best Orchestral Performance. A fervent advocate of new music and contemporary composers, Mr. Guerrero has collaborated with and championed the works of several of America’s most respected composers, including John Adams, John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Daugherty, Roberto Sierra, and Richard Danielpour.
In the 2011-12 season, Mr. Guerrero embarks on a five-city European tour with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. He makes debut appearances with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Strasbourg Philharmonic, and returns to the Slovenian Philharmonic. North American engagements include the Boston, Cincinnati, Houston and Pacific Symphony Orchestras. In Nashville, he opened the season with a gala concert featuring Yo-Yo Ma and will debut three world premieres with the Nashville Symphony this season: Concerto for Banjo written and performed by celebrated banjoist Béla Fleck; a new work by Richard Danielpour; and Terry Riley’s Electric Violin Concerto with Tracey Silverman, which will also be presented at Carnegie Hall as part of the Spring for Music Festival. With the Cleveland Orchestra, where Mr. Guerrero has appeared in each of the past five years, he will conduct subscription concerts in both Severance Hall and for Miami Residency performances at the Arsht Center, as well as plan and engage in education and community programs in the Miami-Dade area. He also returns to the Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, where he now guest conducts each year.
Mr. Guerrero concluded the 2011-12 season leading the Philadelphia Orchestra in concerts at the Mann Center and at their summer residencies in Vail and Saratoga. This followed a busy season that included guest conducting engagements in five continents: Europe, Asia, Australia, North and South Americas. Furthermore, Mr. Guerrero now returns annually to Caracas, Venezuela to conduct the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar and to work with young musicians in the country’s lauded El Sistema music program.
In recent seasons Mr. Guerrero has appeared with many of the major North American orchestras, including the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, San Diego, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the National Symphony in Washington, DC; as well as at several major summer festivals, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Festival, and Indiana University summer orchestra festival. He is also establishing an increasingly visible profile in Europe, where his recent engagements have included return appearances with Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Orchestra and a U.K. debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
Early in his career, Mr. Guerrero worked regularly with the Costa Rican Lyric Opera and in recent seasons has conducted new productions of Carmen, La bohème and Rigoletto. In February 2008, he gave the Australian premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s one-act opera Ainadamar at the Adelaide Festival, to great acclaim.
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.
A percussionist by training, Mr. Guerrero holds degrees from Baylor and Northwestern universities. He was previously the Music Director of the Eugene Symphony. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Guerrero served as Associate Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, where he made his subscription debut in March 2000 leading the world premiere of John Corigliano’s Phantasmagoria on the Ghosts of Versailles. Prior to his tenure with the Minnesota Orchestra, he served as Music Director of the Táchira Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela.
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