Chicago names new maestro
OrchestrasAfter coming to the end of 25 years with Carlos Kalmar, Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival has named a successor for the next three summers.
He is Giancarlo Guerrero, who has just stepped down at the Nashville Symphony.
Guerrero, 56, is also taking over at the Sarasota Symphony.
Let the musical chairs resume.
I don’t understand this multiple jobs concept…is conducting really that easy????
You do understand that the Grant Park Music Festival presents orchestral concerts only during the summer months. The Sarasota Symphony has a 36 week season. It would seem that the two positions would not be in serious conflict for Guerrero.
Grant Park is during the summer, so holding a music director position with a 38-week (or so) orchestra in Sarasota, where he conducts perhaps 15-20 weeks a year, and a summer gig is understandable. Most of us who play for a seasonal full-time orchestra have to fill the summer months with other work. Also, to the author of the article, it’s the Sarasota Orchestra, not Symphony.