Julian Alejandro Gomez-Guillen - Associate Conductor

Colombian-born Julian Alejandro Gomez-Guillen started his musical studies at the age of 6. He began violin studies with renowned Colombian Suzuki pedagogue Olga Chamorro, and with his grandfather Jaime Guillen Martinez, a prominent violinist and conductor. In Colombia, Mr. Gomez-Guillen sang in the Children’s Choir of the Ministery of Culture and was enrolled in the Javeriana University pre-college division. He moved to the U.S to study violin with Curt Thompson earning a Bachelor of Music at Texas Christian University in 2006.

Mr. Gomez-Guillen then moved to the Boulder area to study with Judith Ingolfsson and Lina Bahn and completed the requirements towards a Masters in Violin Performance last December at the University of Colorado. Mr. Gomez-Guillen has studied conducting with Julian Gomez, Maria Teresa Guillen, German Gutierrez, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, and Nicholas Carthy. He has conducted in workshops and rehearsals with the Javeriana Symphony Orchestra in Bogota, and the Spokane Youth Symphony and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra here in the U.S. He is currently Assistant Conductor and mentor with the High Plains Youth Symphony, and he is also Music Director of the Mountain View Chancel Choir in Boulder.

He remains active as a violinist and conductor during the summers. In July he conducted during public performances of Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the 2009 Oregon Bach Festival, and in August and September he played with the Festivalensemble Stuttgart at prestigious venues throughout Germany, including a European premiere of Sven-David Sandström's Messiah at the Rheingau Music Festival, and concerts at the Berlin Philharmonie, all under the baton and tutelage of Helmuth Rilling. Besides being Associate Conductor of the Niwot Timberline Symphony, he is currently a Master's candidate in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he studies with Professor Gary Lewis.