Germán Augusto Gutiérrez has served as Music Director of the Fort Worth Youth Orchestra (FWYO) since 2000. He has served as Director of Orchestras and Professor of Orchestral Studies at Texas Christian University (TCU) as well as Director of TCU’s Latin American Music Center and biennial Latin American Music Festival since 1996.

Dr. Gutiérrez is a frequent guest conductor of professional orchestras in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa and Oceania. Recent invitations include the Qingdao Cosmopolitan Music Festival in China, the Fort Worth Symphony, the Shanghai Conservatory Symphony, the Alcalá de Henares Symphony Orchestra, in Spain; the Lebanon National Philharmonic and the Orquesta Filarmónica of Bogotá, Colombia. Maestro Gutiérrez has also appeared with the national symphonies of Argentina, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Perú and Cuba. Other orchestras include the Hu Bei State Symphony of China, the Free State Symphony Orchestra of South Africa. Shanghai Symphony (China), Xalapa and San Luis Potosí in Mexico, the Auckland Philharmonic (New Zealand), Sinfónica del Teatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro, and Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra (Brazil), among others.

Under his baton the TCU Symphony and the FWYO have achieved exceptional levels of recognition in Fort Worth and abroad, including Second Place in the nationwide Youth Orchestra division of The American Prize in 2021. Both groups have traveled on numerous international tours, obtaining enthusiastic reviews, including repeat invitations as the featured orchestra to engagements such as the Ibero-American Music Festival in Puerto Rico and the Texas Music Educators Association convention in San Antonio. With the TCU Symphony, Maestro Gutiérrez has also conducted the world premieres of more than 50 contemporary works. In 2017, Maestro Gutiérrez led the FWYO on a tour of Europe that included performances at Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Eisenstadt’s Esterházy Palace in Austria, and a concert in Prague.