Giancarlo Guerrero is a six-time Grammy Award–winning conductor now in his 16th and final season as music director of the Nashville Symphony. During his tenure there, he commissioned and premiered nearly two dozen pieces and released 21 commercial recordings, garnering 13 Grammy nominations and six Grammy Awards. Guerrero serves as music director designate of Sarasota Orchestra in 2024–25 and becomes music director in the 2025–26 season.

Guerrero has been a frequent guest conductor in North America, performing with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and Houston Symphony. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in February 2013.

With the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, where he served as music director for six seasons, Guerrero recorded the Billboard chart-topping album Bomsori: Violin on Stage for Deutsche Grammophon. He has also held posts as principal guest conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, music director of the Eugene Symphony, and associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra.

Born in Nicaragua, Guerrero immigrated during his childhood to Costa Rica, where he joined the local youth symphony. He studied percussion and conducting at Baylor University and earned his master’s degree in conducting at Northwestern. Guerrero is particularly engaged with conducting training orchestras and has worked with the Curtis School of Music, Colburn School, National Youth Orchestra, and Yale Philharmonia, as well as with the Nashville Symphony’s Accelerando program and Composer Lab and Workshop.

TIMOTHY McALLISTER is an active soloist and a member of the Grammy Award-winning PRISM Quartet, with more than fifty recordings and 200 premieres of new compositions by eminent and emerging composers worldwide. He has appeared with more than forty of the world’s most prominent orchestras and ensembles in more than twenty countries.

His rise to international recognition began with his world premiere performance of John Adams’s Saxophone Concerto in 2013 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and his recordings of Adams’s City Noir and the concerto with the Saint Louis Symphony garnered a 2015 Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance. His 2018 recordings of Kenneth Fuchs’s Saxophone Concerto Rush with the London Symphony Orchestra and City Noir with the Berlin Philharmonic both received 2019 Grammy nominations, with the Fuchs winning in the Best Classical Compendium category.

This season, Mr. McAllister gives the world premiere of Tyshawn Sorey’s Saxophone Concerto at Switzerland’s Lucerne Festival. Recent and upcoming engagements include the Albany Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and Brussels Philharmonic, among numerous other solo projects and chamber music collaborations. These performances mark his San Francisco Symphony debut.

A widely respected teacher, Mr. McAllister is Professor of Saxophone at the University of Michigan and appears at summer festivals and academies worldwide. He holds degrees including the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Donald Sinta.

Internationally renowned composer, arranger, and master of the bandoneon, Argentinian DANIEL BINELLI tours extensively in concert and recital. He is also widely acclaimed as the foremost exponent and torchbearer of the music of Astor Piazzolla. In 1989, he joined Astor Piazzolla’s New Tango Sextet, touring internationally.

Mr. Binelli has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Montreal Symphony, and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, among others. His collaborations include performances with pianist Polly Ferman and guitarist Eduardo Isaac, as well as the Binelli-Ferman-Isaac Trio. He is also Musical Director of Tango Metropolis Company, featured in the PBS documentary Tango the Spirit of Argentina, and on a BBC documentary on Astor Piazzolla’s life. A seasoned composer in his own right, Mr. Binelli has created and arranged music for the concert hall, dance, and film. His versatility allowed him to work in all Tango styles and contemporary idioms. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in 2005.