Giancarlo Guerrero
As conductor of the Nashville Symphony since 2009, Giancarlo Guerrero has championed a broad range of accessible contemporary music. He has a long record of appearances and recordings in the U.S., Latin America, and beyond.
Guerrero was born in Managua, Nicaragua, on March 14, 1969, but was raised mostly in Costa Rica. He played with the Costa Rica Youth Symphony, and by his teens he was a percussionist in the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica. His introduction to American music-making came at Baylor University, where he earned a bachelor's degree as a percussionist, but also studied conducting. Guerrero went on for a master's degree in conducting at Northwestern University, working there with Victor Yampolsky. He began his professional career in Latin America as music director of the Tachira Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela. In 1999, he became associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra. During his first season, he conducted the world premiere of John Corigliano's Phantasmagoria on themes from the Ghosts of Versailles. He remained with the Minnesota Orchestra until 2004. He was also named music director of the Eugene Symphony Orchestra in Oregon in 2002, and two years later he won the Helen M. Thompson Award from the American Symphony Orchestra League, marking him as a rising young conductor. Guerrero continued to appear in Latin America, conducting Yo-Yo Ma and the Puerto Rico Symphony at the 2005 Casals Festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the Buenos Aires Philharmonic at the Teatro Colón that same year. He has made guest appearances with major American symphony orchestras including those of Boston, Detroit, and Dallas, and with such foreign groups as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon. Guerrero has also conducted opera at, among other places, the Adelaide Festival in Australia.
His repertory ranges forward from Mozart to contemporary works. Since becoming music director of the Nashville Symphony in 2009, he has focused on the latter, often inclining toward works of broad public appeal. He has championed the works of diverse composers including John Adams, Jennifer Higdon, Terry Riley, and Osvaldo Golijov. He immediately endeared himself to his Music City hosts by releasing an album featuring the Metropolis Symphony of Michael Daugherty that won three Grammy awards. The album appeared on the Naxos label, and Guerrero's association with that label has continued with one or two new releases each year in the 2010s. He and the Nashville Symphony released an album featuring music by composer Jonathan Leshnoff in 2019.
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Discography
20 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Violin on Stage
Bomsori, NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, Giancarlo Guerrero
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 11 jun. 2021
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Jonathan Leshnoff: Symphony No. 4 "Heichalos" (Performed on the Violins of Hope)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Jason Vieaux, Giancarlo Guerrero
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 2 mei 2019
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Aaron Jay Kernis: Color Wheel - Symphony No. 4 "Chromelodeon" (Live)
Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 12 jun. 2020
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Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto (Live)
Roberto Diaz, James Button, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 10 mrt. 2017
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Chasing Light…
Christopher Lamb, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 7 jun. 2011
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Michael Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway, American Gothic & Once upon a Castle (Live)
Zuill Bailey, Paul Jacobs, Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 9 sep. 2016
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Metropolis Symphony - Deus ex Machina
Mary Kathryn van Osdale, Ann Richards, Terrence Wilson, Nashville Symphony, Erik Gratton, Giancarlo Guerrero
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 29 sep. 2009
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The Impostor
Béla Fleck, Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero, Brooklyn Rider
Klassiek - Released by Mercury Classics on 1 jan. 2013
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
John Adams: My Father Knew Charles Ives & Harmonielehre
Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 15 jan. 2021
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Sinfonía Buenos Aires
Daniel Binelli, Tianwa Yang, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 28 sep. 2010
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Rouse: Symphony No. 5, Supplica & Concerto for Orchestra
Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 24 jul. 2020
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Violin on Stage
Bomsori, NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, Giancarlo Guerrero
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 11 jun. 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Riley: The Palmian Chord Ryddle & At the Royal Majestic
Tracy Silverman, Todd Wilson, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 10 nov. 2017
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Symphonie n°4 - Fandangos - Carnaval
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 5 nov. 2013
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Tobias Picker: Opera Without Words & The Encantadas
Tobias Picker, Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 28 aug. 2020
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Tower: Violin Concerto, Stroke & Chamber Dance
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Cho-Liang Lin, Giancarlo Guerrero
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 5 mei 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Richard Danielpour: Songs of Solitude & War Songs
Thomas Hampson, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 14 okt. 2016
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Ticheli, Warnaar & Ranjbaran: Wind Concertos
James Zimmermann, Leslie Norton, Erik Gratton, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 9 feb. 2018
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Richard Danielpour: Ancient Voices
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Hila Plitmann , Giancarlo Guerrero, Pacific Chorale, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Carl St. Clair
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 2 jun. 2015
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The Impostor
Béla Fleck, Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero, Brooklyn Rider
Klassiek - Released by Mercury Classics on 1 jan. 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo