![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With this last orchestra he performed to critical acclaim at Carnegie Hall in 2003, the Kennedy Center in 2004 and Spain in 2005. He is also Music Director of the Music in the Mountains Festival in Durango, Colorado and is the former Music Director of both the New Mexico Symphony and the Puerto Rico Symphony. His conducting studies were with Harold Farberman in New York.Guillermo Figueroa is Artistic Director of The Figueroa Project, an innovative organization that combines music with various other art forms. At Juilliard, his teachers were Oscar Shumsky and Felix Galimir. He studied with his father and uncle at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico. An advocate for new music, Figueroa and the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra won an Award for Adventurous Programming from the League of American Orchestras in 2007. His recording of Cordero’s violin concertos received a Latin Grammy nomination in 2012. He has recorded Bartók’s Three Violin Sonatas with pianist Robert Koenig and an album of virtuoso violin music with pianist Ivonne Figueroa. He frequently performs viola as guest of the Emerson, Fine Arts, American, Amernet, and Orion string quartets. International and US appearances include the Buffalo and Toronto Symphony orchestras, Baltic Philharmonic, Xalapa, and Orquesta de Cordoba. He gave the world premieres of four violin concertos written for him: Mario Davidovsky’s Concertino at Carnegie Hall, Harold Farberman’s Double Concerto at Lincoln Center, Miguel del Águila’s Violin Concerto co-commissioned by Figueroa, and Ernesto Cordero’s ĺnsula, Suite Concertante in Zagreb. He was Music Director of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and the Puerto Rico Symphony, Concertmaster of the New York City Ballet, and a Founding Member and Concertmaster of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. ![]() He serves as Music Director of the Music in the Mountains Festival and the Lynn Philharmonia. Violinist, violist, conductor, and concertmaster Guillermo Figueroa is Principal Conductor of the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. ![]()
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