36 2014 Program Notes, Book 4
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
GIANCARLO GUERRERO
is Music Director of the Nashville
Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the
Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency. His recordings with
the Nashville Symphony won Grammys in 2011 and 2012,
including Best Orchestral Performance. A fervent advocate
of contemporary music and composers, Mr. Guerrero has
championed works by several of America’s most respected
composers, including John Adams, John Corigliano, Osvaldo
Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Daugherty, Roberto Sierra
and Richard Danielpour. In recent seasons, Mr. Guerrero has
established himself with many of the major North American orchestras, and has
cultivated an increasingly visible presence in Europe. He has also maintained a
close association with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra in Brazil as well
as with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and El Sistema in Venezuela. A
native of Costa Rica, Giancarlo Guerrero gained early experience with the Costa
Rican Lyric Opera and later spent time in Venezuela as Music Director of the Táchira
Symphony Orchestra. Upon moving to the United States, he studied conducting
and percussion at Baylor and Northwestern Universities. He has served as Associate
Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra from 1999 to 2004 and was Music Director of
Oregon’s Eugene Symphony from 2002 to 2009.
Soprano
TRACY CANTIN
is a second-year member of the
Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera
of Chicago. A graduate of the Artist Diploma program at
McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, Ms. Cantin
appeared there as Donna Anna in
Don Giovanni
, Mimì in
La
bohème
and the Governess in Britten’s
Turn of the Screw
.
She previously studied at the University of Alberta and the
University of Western Ontario. On the concert stage, Ms.
Cantin has been heard as a soloist in Strauss’
Vier letzte
Lieder
, Handel’s
Messiah
, Bach’s
Magnificat
, Vivaldi’s
Gloria
and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. Major highlights of her recent concert activities
were performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Melbourne Symphony
Orchestra with Sir Andrew Davis conducting, and the Illinois Philharmonic, as well
as appearances at the Ravinia Festival and
with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.
A native of Prince Edward Island, Tracy Cantin has been awarded a grant from
the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation (2013), Phyllis and Bernard Shapiro Opera
Scholarship (2011), June Rittmeyer Prize (2010), First Place in the Lois Marshall
Memorial Competition (2010) and London Opera Guild Scholarship (2009). Last
season Ms. Cantin made her Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in
Elektra
and appeared
in
Rigoletto
; in this season she performed in Lyric’s
Parsifal
and
Il barbiere di
Siviglia
.
