GERMÁN GUTIÉRREZ

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Orchestra Conductor

Professor Germán Augusto Gutiérrez has served as Director of Orchestras and Professor of Orchestral Studies at Fort Worth’s Texas Christian University (TCU) as well as Director of TCU’s Latin American Music Center and biennial Latin American Music Festival since 1996.  Since 2000, Dr. Gutiérrez has also served as Music Director of the Fort Worth Youth Orchestra (FWYO). 

Maestro Gutiérrez is a frequent guest conductor of professional orchestras in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa and Oceania.  He recorded a CD, released on January 2021, with the Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra with Daniel Binelli and Polly Ferman as soloists. Recent invitations include the Arzerbaijan National symphony, as part of the Climate Change Summit 2024 in Baku.  Shanghai Conservatory Symphony, Alcalá de Henares Symphony Orchestra, in Spain; the Lebanon National Philharmonic, the Orquesta Filarmónica of Bogotá, Colombia, the Perú National Symphony, the Hu Bei State Symphony of China, the Free State Symphony Orchestra of South Africa. In 2011, the TCU Symphony Orchestra was awarded the Carlos Gardel Musical Prize for its CD “Cantar Latinoamericano” with Opus Cuatro as soloists.  This award led to the invitation for the orchestra to perform in May, 2013 in Buenos Aires and Rosario. For twelve consecutive years Dr. Gutiérrez served as guest conductor of the Dallas Symphony’s Hispanic Festival.  In 2006, he was invited to conduct the Czech National Symphony in historic Smetana Hall as part of the 110th anniversary of Carl Orff’s birth, where he led the orchestra in a performance of Carmina Burana.  Maestro Gutiérrez has also appeared with the symphony orchestras of Shanghai (China), Xalapa and San Luis Potosí in Mexico, the Fort Worth Symphony, Auckland Philharmonic (New Zealand), Argentina, Colombia, Puerto Rico and Cuba National Symphonies; Sinfónica del Teatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro, and Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra (Brazil), among others.  In 2002, Maestro Gutiérrez was invited to the Trentino region of Italy to conduct Rossini’s Barber of Seville for the 30th anniversary of the Pergine Spettacolo Aperto.

Under his baton, the TCU Symphony and the FWYO have achieved exceptional levels of recognition. Both groups have traveled on numerous international tours. With the TCU Symphony, Maestro Gutiérrez has also conducted the world premieres of more than Sixty contemporary works.  In 2017, Maestro Gutiérrez led the FWYO on a tour of Europe that included performances at Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Eisenstadt’s Esterházy Palace in Austria, and a concert in Prague.  

Maestro Gutiérrez holds Músico Bachiller and Maestro en Música degrees from the Tolima Conservatory in Colombia.  He also received a master’s degree from Illinois State University and a doctoral degree from the University of Northern Colorado.  For his involvement and dedication to TCU, Maestro Gutiérrez received the Dean's Teaching Award, the Dean's Award for Research and Creative Activity, and the 2003 Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity, the highest award that the university bestows.

He makes his home in Fort Worth with his wife Silvia and two sons, Nicolás and Gabriel.