Giancarlo Guerrero's 2009/2010 season marks his first as music director of the Nashville Symphony. A champion of new music, Guerrero has collaborated with and conducted the music of several of America's most respected contemporary composers, including John Adams, John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Daugherty, and Roberto Sierra. As a guest conductor, Guerrero recently made two important debuts abroad: his European debut with the Gulbenkian Orchestra and his U.K. debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Guerrero regularly conducts with the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar in Venezuela and with the Costa Rican Lyric Opera. In June 2004, Guerrero received the Helen M. Thompson Award from the American Symphony Orchestra League, which recognizes outstanding achievement among young conductors nationwide.

Originally from Aberdeen, Mississippi, Greely Myatt serves on the faculty of the University of Memphis Department of Art. He is known throughout the region for his sculptures and installations which have been exhibited in more than twenty-five solo shows and numerous group exhibitions across the United States, Europe and Japan. He has received grants and fellowships from the Tennessee Arts Commission, the University of Memphis, the University of Georgia, and Alternate Roots, Atlanta. Greely Myatt Twenty Years, a survey of his work was recently on display at over nine museums and galleries throughout Memphis. Myatt is the recipient of the 1994 Mississippi Arts and Letters Visual Arts Award, and was an exchange artist to Israel in 1998. He is represented by David Lusk Gallery in Memphis, and Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta.

Considered to be one of the foremost theatre actresses in the United States, Cherry Jones is a proud native of Paris, Tennessee. A founding member of the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Jones spent the early years of her professional career performing in a wide range of plays. Her Broadway credits include Doubt (2005) and the Lincoln Center Theater production of The Heiress (1995), both of which earned her Tony Awards for Best Actress. Her television credits include her current role as President Allison Taylor on 24, for which she received an Emmy Award in 2009. She has also appeared in the films Ocean's Twelve, The Village, Signs, Erin Brockovich, The Horse Whisperer, The Perfect Storm, and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Other major awards include two Obies; two Joseph Jeffersons; two Lucille Lortels; three Drama Desks; three Outer Critics Circles; and the Sidney Kingsley, Elliott Norton, and Drama League awards.

Christopher Brubeck’s fluid command of jazz, blues, folk, funk, pop, and classical musical styles is matched by his irrepressible enthusiasm. He is equally at ease performing on bass, trombone, guitar, and vocals and began touring in the 1970s with his father, jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck. He is clearly tuned in to the pulse of contemporary music and has earned international acclaim as a composer, performer, and leader of his own groups. In the last decade, he has created an impressive body of symphonic work while maintaining a demanding touring and recording schedule with the Brubeck Brothers Quartet. His compositions have been performed by prominent orchestras all around the world and in the United States. Christopher Brubeck’s most recent thrill was performing with his brothers, Darius, Dan, and Matthew, in an all-star tribute to their father as part of Washington’s Kennedy Center Awards, which was televised internationally in December 2009.