Giancarlo Guerrero is a six-time GRAMMY® Award-winning 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, he has championed contemporary American composers through commissions, recordings, and world premieres. Guerrero also developed the Nashville Symphony's Composer Lab & Workshop initiative with composer Aaron Jay Kernis, to foster and promote new American orchestral music. A natural and instinctive musician, he is a charismatic presence on the podium and has appeared with many prominent North American orchestras, including those of Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Montreal, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. He has also developed a strong international guest-conducting profile and has worked with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Brussels Philharmonic, Deutsches Radio Philharmonie, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Netherlands Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.