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Associate Principal and E-flat Clarinet

Silvio Guitian (On Leave)

Silvio Guitian joins the Kansas City Symphony in the 2019/20 season as associate principal and E-flat clarinet. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Guitian attended Rice University, studying clarinet with Richie Hawley. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin Conservatory as a student of Richard Hawkins. Prior to his appointment with the Kansas City Symphony, Guitian was a 2019 fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and principal clarinetist of the 2018 New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall. In 2018, he was a member of the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra Academy in Sapporo, Japan. Guitian toured South America with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas in 2017 and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of the USA on their coast-to-coast tour in 2014. He also spent two summers at the National Orchestral Institute, where he was part of a Grammy® Award-nominated CD of American orchestral music produced by Naxos. Guitian was a winner of the Oberlin Concerto competition in 2018 and performed the Copland Clarinet Concerto with the Oberlin Orchestra. He also has performed as a soloist on NPR’s “From the Top.” Guitian enjoys teaching clarinet, and he has worked closely with the Northern Ohio Youth Orchestras and the Asociación Nacional de Conciertos in Panama City.


Guitan Silvio

Silvio Guitian joins the Kansas City Symphony in the 2019/20 season as associate principal and E-flat clarinet. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Guitian attended Rice University, studying clarinet with Richie Hawley. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin Conservatory as a student of Richard Hawkins. Prior to his appointment with the Kansas City Symphony, Guitian was a 2019 fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and principal clarinetist of the 2018 New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall. In 2018, he was a member of the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra Academy in Sapporo, Japan. Guitian toured South America with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas in 2017 and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of the USA on their coast-to-coast tour in 2014. He also spent two summers at the National Orchestral Institute, where he was part of a Grammy® Award-nominated CD of American orchestral music produced by Naxos. Guitian was a winner of the Oberlin Concerto competition in 2018 and performed the Copland Clarinet Concerto with the Oberlin Orchestra. He also has performed as a soloist on NPR’s “From the Top.” Guitian enjoys teaching clarinet, and he has worked closely with the Northern Ohio Youth Orchestras and the Asociación Nacional de Conciertos in Panama City.