Current Positions

• Figueroa Music & Arts Project – Founder and Artistic Director
• Music in the Mountains Festival – Music Director

Current Activities

• Lynn University Orchestra
• Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
• Festival Ballet Albuquerque
• Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (reengagement)
• Placitas Artists Series

Recent Activities

• New York City Ballet
• Toronto Symphony
• Detroit Symphony Orchestra
• New Jersey Symphony
• Tucson Symphony
• Memphis Symphony
• Colorado Symphony Orchestra
• Festival Interamericano de las Artes
• Angel Fire Music Festival
• Purchase College Symphony

Former Positions

• New Mexico Symphony – Music Director
• Puerto Rico Symphony – Music Director
• New York City Ballet – Concertmaster
• Orpheus Chamber Orchestra – Founding Member and Concertmaster

Artist Website: www.guillermofigueroa.com

Noteworthy

• Latin Grammy Award nomination (2012) – Cordera: Caribbean Concertos for Guitar and for Violinwith Pepe Romero and I Solisti di Zagreb (Naxos)g
• League of American Orchestras Award for Adventurous Programming (2007) for innovative  programming of new music

A Berlioz specialist, Figueroa in 2003 created the most comprehensive Berlioz Festival in the US on the occasion of the composer’s bicentennial.  A committed proponent of the performance of new music, Figueroa has conducted the premiers of works by contemporary composers including Robert Sierra, Ernesto Cordero and Miguel del Aguila.

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