Bio

Gonzalo Morales Sánchez is an Argentinian conductor and clarinetist, currently completing his Doctorate in Orchestral Conducting at Ball State University (USA).

He has conducted works by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Mahler, Rimsky-Korsakov, Verdi, and Revueltas, including La Traviata at the Basilica de Luján. As a clarinetist, he has performed concertos by Mozart, Weber, and Rossini, and played with major Argentine orchestras such as the National Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Argentine Music “Juan de Dios Filiberto,” and the Symphony Orchestra of Teatro Roma.

Morales Sánchez holds a Master’s degree from the Université de Montréal (Canada) and a degree in Music from the Universidad Nacional de Lanús (Argentina). He is fluent in Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese.

He studied clarinet under André Moisan (Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal), Cristiano Alves (Orquestra Petrobras Sinfônica), and Guillermo Sánchez (Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Argentina), and has taken masterclasses with Donald Montanaro and Wenzel Fuchs. He studied conducting under Gregory Robbins, Carlos Vieu, and Annunziata Tomaro.