GUERRERO, GIANCARLO

Costa Rican conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, the new Music Director of the Nashville Symphony, began his duties in Nashville during the 2008/09 season as Music Director Designate while concurrently finishing his seven-year tenure as Music Director of Oregon’s Eugene Symphony. A champion of new music, he initiated a guest-composer series in Eugene, where under his leadership the ensemble hosted several of America’s most respected composers, including John Adams, John Corigliano, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Daugherty, and Roberto Sierra. Previously, he served as Associate Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra. As a guest conductor, he has made two important débuts abroad: his European début with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, where he was immediately invited to return, and his United Kingdom début with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He has also recently made successful débuts with several major American orchestras, including the Baltimore Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra (where he was invited back for a subscription week and tour), the Seattle Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra. Also in demand in Central and South America, he conducts regularly in Venezuela with the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, with which he has had a special relationship for many years.

In 2004, he was awarded the Helen M. Thompson Award by the American Symphony Orchestra League, which recognizes outstanding achievement among young conductors nationwide. He holds degrees from Baylor and Northwestern Universities. Prior to his tenure with the Minnesota Orchestra, he served as music director of the Táchira Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela.

DAUGHERTY, M.: Metropolis Symphony / Deus ex Machina (T. Wilson, Nashville Symphony, Guerrero)	8.559635