Nicaragua-born Giancarlo Guerrero begins his tenure as Music Director of the Eugene (Oregon) Symphony Orchestra in September 2002. In September 1999 he joined the Minnesota Orchestra as Associate Conductor, and will hold both positions concurrently. He also appears regularly as guest conductor with symphony orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Latin America. Prior to his tenure with the Minnesota Orchestra, he served as music director of the Tachira Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela.

Mr. Guerrero made his Minnesota Orchestra subscription debut in February 2001 conducting music of Ginastera, de Falla, Liszt and Stravinsky and has appeared in subscription concerts every season since. In May 2002 he conducted a program featuring works of Prokofiev and Brahms (with Horacio Gutiérrez as soloist) and in March 2003 returns to lead the orchestra in works of Chavez, Paulus and Tchaikovsky. During his tenure in Minnesota, he has also distinguished himself in a variety of assignments, including educational, pops and family concerts and summer MusicFest performances. He also serves as cover conductor for the subscription concerts, which led to his first appearance on the subscription podium leading the world premiere of John Corigliano's "Phantasmagoria on the Ghosts of Versailles."

The American Symphony Orchestra League chose Mr. Guerrero as one of five participants in the League's February 2001 Conductor Preview hosted by the Chicago Civic Orchestra, which led to an invitation from the orchestra to appear on their 2001-02 season. Other recent engagements include appearances with the Detroit Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony, the Oregon Symphony and the Spoleto Festival Orchestra. In the summer of 2001 he made his debut with the National Symphony in Washington, DC, and returned there in the summer of 2002; he will make his subscription debut with the orchestra in 2002-03. Also in 2002-03 he will conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, the San Diego Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony and the Omaha Symphony.

Raised in Costa Rica, Mr. Guerrero holds degrees from Northwestern University and Baylor University. His principal conducting teachers were Guillermo Scarabino, Michael Haithcock, Stephen Heyde and Victor Yampolsky.