Sarasota Orchestra welcomes new music director to lead after 5 years

After five years without a music director, the Sarasota Orchestra is welcoming a new artistic leader.

Giancarlo Guerrero, a six-time Grammy Award-winning conductor full of fresh energy and known internationally for his adventurous programming, officially steps onto the podium this fall as the Orchestra’s seventh music director since its founding in 1949.

“It’s such a huge thing for an orchestra to have a new music director,” said Gordon Greenfield, the Orchestra’s vice president of artistic planning. “We’re just shaking with excitement.”