Gonzalo Morales Sánchez is an Argentinian orchestral conductor.

His work spans the full range of the orchestral repertoire, from Stravinsky, Mahler, and Wagner to Verdi's La traviata, which he conducted at the Basílica de Luján, through to popular and Argentinian repertoire including Ginastera and tango arrangements. He has conducted the Ball State Symphony Orchestra in works by Revueltas, Bizet, Schumann, and Wagner, and led the Midwest premiere of Harriet Steinke's Marimba Concerto. In Argentina he directed the Orquesta Juvenil Municipal de San Martín in Brahms's First Symphony, Tchaikovsky's Fourth, and Dvořák's Ninth, and has appeared as guest conductor with the Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal de San Martín and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tres de Febrero. He is equally at home in the gravity a Wagner overture demands and in the looser pleasure of a tango set, and he treats command of that whole spectrum as central to what he does.

Most recently he conducted Ginastera's Estancia with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Avellaneda on the Aires de Mayo program, a performance that sits at the center of his current work. That breadth reflects a deeper interest: connecting worlds usually held apart, the folkloric and the academic above all. His doctoral dissertation pursues exactly this through Estancia, asking how the coordination logic of Argentine folk practice survives inside the orchestral score, and how a conductor can use it in rehearsal and performance.

His path through music passed through every role before the podium. He began as a player in a youth orchestra, became a teacher, and then a director, founding the Orquesta Juvenil de Ciudad Evita and building it from 13 students to over 100, with a dedicated hall, provincial tours, and free orchestral training for children from working-class neighborhoods.

He is also an accomplished clarinetist, having performed concertos by Mozart, Weber, and Rossini with major Argentine orchestras, including the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, once under Krzysztof Penderecki, the Orquesta "Juan de Dios Filiberto," and the Orquesta del Teatro Roma de Avellaneda, where he has been principal clarinet since 2017.

He holds degrees from the Universidad Nacional de Lanús and the Universidad Nacional de las Artes, a master's from the Université de Montréal, and is completing his Doctor of Arts in orchestral conducting at Ball State University. He is fluent in Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese.