CONDUCTORS
MUSIC DIRECTOR
GIANCARLO GUERRERO Martha & Bronson Ingram Music Director Chair
Photograph by Tony Matula
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iancarlo Guerrero is a six-time GRAMMY® Awardwinning conductor now in his 10th season as Music Director of the Nashville Symphony. He is also Music Director of the Wrocław Philharmonic at the National Forum of Music in Poland and Principal Guest Conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, Portugal. A passionate proponent of new music, Guerrero has championed the works of America’s most respected composers through commissions, recordings and world premieres. Guerrero’s advocacy has helped make Nashville a destination for contemporary orchestral music. He has presented nine world premieres with the Nashville Symphony, including the 2016 performance and recent GRAMMY®-winning recording of Jennifer Higdon’s All Things Majestic and the 2018 premiere and recording of Jonathan Leshnoff’s Symphony No. 4 “Heichalos,” written for the Nashville Symphony’s Violins of Hope initiative. As part of his commitment to fostering contemporary music, Guerrero developed and guided the creation of Nashville Symphony’s Composer Lab & Workshop initiative, together with composer Aaron Jay Kernis. Fall 2018 brings the Naxos release of John Harbison’s monumental Requiem with the Nashville Symphony and Chorus. The release marks Guerrero’s first choral recording and the first commercial recording since its premiere by the Boston Symphony in 2003. In spring 2019, Naxos will release Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony’s recording of Leshnoff’s Symphony No. 4. Recent seasons have also seen the release of new albums with Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony dedicated to the music of Terry Riley, Michael Daugherty and Richard Danielpour. Outside of Nashville, Wrocław and Lisbon, Guerrero enjoys relationships with orchestras around the world. His 2018/19 engagements include the Dallas Symphony, Chicago Symphony, NDR in Hannover, OSESP
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JANUARY 2019
São Paulo and Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia. Maestro Guerrero has appeared with prominent North American orchestras, including those of Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Montréal, Philadelphia, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver and the National Symphony Orchestra. He has developed a strong international guest-conducting profile and has worked in recent seasons with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Brussels Philharmonic, Deutsches Radio Philharmonie, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Netherlands Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the Queensland Symphony and Sydney Symphony in Australia. Guerrero previously held posts as the Principal Guest Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra Miami (2011-2016), Music Director of the Eugene Symphony (2002-2009) and Associate Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra (1999-2004). Guerrero was born in Nicaragua and immigrated during his childhood to Costa Rica, where he joined the local youth symphony. He quickly proved to be a promising young percussionist and came to the United States to study percussion and conducting at Baylor University in Texas and at Northwestern. Given his beginnings in civic youth orchestras, Guerrero is particularly engaged with conducting training orchestras and works regularly with the Curtis School of Music, Colburn School in Los Angeles and Yale Philharmonia, as well as with the Nashville Symphony’s Accelerando program, which provides music education to promising young students from underrepresented ethnic communities. In recent years, he has developed a relationship with the National Youth Orchestra (NYO2) in New York, created and operated by the Weill Institute of Music at Carnegie Hall.
COSMOS
AN HD ODYSSEY FEATURING FEATURING THE THE “NEW “NEW WORLD” WORLD” SYMPHONY SYMPHONY with with the the NASHVILLE NASHVILLE SYMPHONY SYMPHONY
COFFEE & CL ASSICS FRIDAY JANUARY 11, AT 10:30 AM
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY GIANCARLO GUERRERO, conductor
BEDŘICH SMETANA “The Moldau,” No. 2 from Má vlast (My Fatherland)
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, “From the New World” Adagio - Allegro molto Largo Molto vivace Allegro con fuoco
CO F F E E & C L A S S I C S S E R I E S P R E S E N T I N G PA RT N E R
CO N C E RT PA RT N E R
This concert will last approximately 1 hour and 5 minutes.
INCONCERT
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2018 Symphony Ball W
ith record-breaking revenue, a sold-out crowd and a memorable performance by country superstar Toby Keith, the 2018 Symphony Ball has proven to be one of the most successful events in the ball’s 30-plus year history. More than 400 guests filled a beautifully adorned Laura Turner Concert Hall on December 8 to dine, dance and toast Keith, the Symphony’s 2018 Harmony Award winner. After accepting the award, Keith joined the Nashville Symphony to perform some of his biggest hits, one of many highlights in a spectacular evening that came to fruition thanks to the leadership, vision and creativity of 2018 Ball chairmen Katie Crumbo and Laurie Seabury. The Symphony Ball is an important part of the Symphony’s annual fundraising efforts, with proceeds sustaining the organization’s mission to inspire, educate and entertain through excellence in musical performance.
CHAIRMEN LAURIE SEABURY AND KATIE CRUMBO
INCONCERT
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