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Described as instinctive and talented, Lorenzo Guggenheim is a conductor with an emerging career conducting the broad orchestral repertoire, new music and opera. Hailed as “one of the promises in orchestral conducting in Argentina with international projection,” Mr. Guggenheim’s career was launched with his debut in the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires at age 23 and his performance with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile in 2014. He moved to Seattle in 2016, where he collaborated with the Seattle Symphony’s Prokofiev and Shostakovich Festivals as Assistant Conductor for Pablo Rus Broseta. He was offered a Fellowship by Seattle Symphony’s Music Director Ludovic Morlot in the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons acting twice as Cover Conductor.
In 2018, Guggenheim moved to Toronto and quickly founded the University of Toronto Campus Philharmonic Orchestra, which he serves as Music Director. He has conducted UTCPO in MacMillan Theatre twice a year and at the Royal Ontario Museum attracting wide audiences. Future engagements include the return with the Greater Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra in the 2020/21 season. He will continue in his positions as Assistant Conductor of the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Contemporary Music Ensemble under the direction of Uri Mayer and Wallace Halladay, respectively.
Working on national and international stages, Lorenzo Guggenheim, was a Guest Conductor with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Mar del Plata where he was regarded “…an expert, perfectionist and seriously formed conductor” (La Capital). Before this, he conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica de Entre Ríos, University of Washington Symphony and Campus Orchestras, as well as collaborations with UW Opera and Modern Ensemble, Miami Music Festival Chamber Orchestra, and the Academic Orchestra of the Teatro Colón. Expanding his presence in Canada, he has conducted Orchestra Toronto, Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra and the Continuum Ensemble selected him as a Hatch 2020 Fellow.
In 2018, Guggenheim conducted the North American premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s The Maiden from the Sea to a sold-out audience in collaboration with the composer and Ryoko Aoki in the title role at the University of Toronto’s New Music Festival. The performance received excellent reviews from local media. “Under conductor Lorenzo Guggenheim, the 23-member ensemble played with complete unanimity of concentration and produced a gorgeous texture of sound” (Stage Door). He has premiered the multimedia opera En la Colonia Penitenciaria by Guillermo Vega Fischer in 2016 as well as conducting repertoire such as Les mamelles de Tirésias, L’enfant et les sortilèges, Dido and Aeneas, La Traviata and Don Giovanni.
Lorenzo Guggenheim is currently engaged in research on the life and music of Franz Schreker, performing his symphonic music for the first time in Toronto. His article Franz Schreker: Globalization as a factor determining the survival to the test of time in classical music will be published this year in the book Expanded Spaces with the sponsor of York University.
During the summer of 2020, he took an active role taking part in several online Festivals and Masterclasses such as Medomak Virtual Retreat, Cortona Virtual Conducting Summit, Beethoven’s 250 Intensive Analisis Course, and Benjamin Zander’s Virtual Masterclass, as well as taking lessons with Christian Măcelaru and Kenneth Kiesler. Lorenzo took advantage of this time to expand and deepen his knowledge of repertoire and connect with colleagues worldwide to understand how to contribute artistically in our new world.
In 2019 and 2020, Mr. Guggenheim was selected as Apprentice Conductor by Orchestra Toronto conducting in George Weston Recital Hall. In February 2020, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires invited him as a finalist for the Assistant Conductor position. He has taken part in several international workshops and masterclasses with renowned teachers such as Mark Gibson, Benjamin Zander, Grzegorz Nowak, Guillermo Scarabino, Jorge Rotter and Rodolfo Fischer.
He was awarded full scholarships from the University of Toronto for his Doctoral Degree with Uri Mayer and from the University of Washington for his Masters’ degree.