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, ...