Guitar Faculty

Gianfranco was born in Lima, Peru and at age six moved to San Francisco, California. Gianfranco studied guitar and chamber music with Scott Cmiel at 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 featured one of his compositions on their 2016 Showcase Concert and in the From the Top NPR show in San Jose 2016.

Gianfranco supplemented his study of classical guitar with the research and performances of traditional Peruvian music, bossa nova, tango and flamenco. Gianfranco has a degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he studied with David Tanenbaum and had the chance to have masterclasses with Sergio Assad, Manuel Barrueco, and William Kanengiser, David Leisner, and Su Meng.