Meet Gianfranco

Gianfranco Baltazar (guitarist and composer) was born in Lima, Peru and at age six moved to San Francisco, California. He studied guitar and chamber music with Scott Cmiel at both the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music pre-college and studied composition at the John Adams Young Composers Program with Director Matthew Cmiel and Chicago Symphony Composer-in-Residence Samuel Adams. The San Francisco Ballet School feature one of Baltazar’s compositions on their 2016 Showcase Concert and in the From the Top NPR show in San Jose 2016. He supplemented his study of classical guitar with research and performances of traditional Peruvian music, bossa nova, tango and flamenco. He has studied four years at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with David Tanenbaum, as well as having the chance to have master classes with Sergio Assad, Manuel Barrueco, William Kanengiser, David Leisner and Su Meng.