LORENZO GUGGENHEIM

Lorenzo Guggenheim was selected as the new Music Director & Conductor of the Oakville Symphony in July 2022.

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 his native Buenos Aires at age 23 and his following performance with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile.

This season he was invited to conduct the York University Symphony Orchestra and re-engaged to conduct the opening concert of the Greater Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra. Locally, he has also conducted Orchestra Toronto, and Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra while the Toronto Symphony Orchestra recently selected him as semi-finalist for their Resident Conductor search. An active entrepreneur, Mr. Guggenheim founded the University of Toronto Campus Philharmonic Orchestra in 2018 and the Canadian Studio Symphony in 2022 with which he recorded Evocations, an album of music by Felipe Téllez.

Working on international stages, Mr. Guggenheim conducted the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and Orquesta de Mar del Plata (Argentina), and was the Assistant Conductor for the Berlin Academy of American Music’s debut at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie. Guggenheim collaborated with the Seattle Symphony’s Prokofiev and Shostakovich Festivals as Assistant Conductor for Pablo Rus Broseta and 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 as part of his master’s studies at the University of Washington.

Lorenzo participates frequently in international masterclasses, recently at Domaine-Forget with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the late Bramwell Tovey where he conducted the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec. Guggenheim was part of the first Jerusalem International Conducting Academy in July 2022 sponsored by a grant from the Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation.

Mr. Guggenheim holds positions as Music Director of the Oakville Symphony, Music Director of the UofT Campus Philharmonic Orchestra, and is Assistant Conductor of the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Contemporary Music Ensemble. He is currently engaged in research on the music of Franz Schreker, championing the performances of his symphonic repertoire as part of his Doctoral Studies under the mentorship of Uri Mayer.