Gonzalo Hidalgo (Music Director) is a musician and surgeon who graduated from the Central University of Venezuela. He began his musical studies at the age of 9 in a nucleus of El Sistema in the state of Barinas, Venezuela. He was a founding member in 1994 of the National Children's Symphony of Venezuela, with whom he traveled to important stages in North America and Europe. He has received bassoon classes from the teachers Antonio Aray, Henning Trog and Stefan Schweigert, both members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, with Matthias Racz, he has taken classes with solo bassoon from the Tonhalle Zurich Orchestra, Sergio Azzolini, a bassoon teacher in Basel, Switzerland, and with Dag Jensen bassoon teacher at the Munich art and music school, Klaus Thunemann Soloist and teacher at the Hans Eileer music school in Berlin.

Gonzalo has been leading the most important youth and professional orchestras in Venezuela for several years, such as the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, the Caracas Symphony Orchestra, the Teresa Carreño Symphony Orchestra, the Francisco de Miranda Symphony Orchestra, among others.

From the conducting school of the teachers Eduardo Marturet and Teresa Hernández, Alejandro Posada recently completed his master's degree at the EAFIT University of the city of Medellín - Colombia, he has taken on with enthusiasm and security programs that include works by Wagner, Ravel, Debussy, Rimski-Kórsakov, Beethoven, Fauré, Shostakovich, Mahler, Brahms, Mozart, Verdi, Weber, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Márquez, Ginastera, Carreño, Estévez, Villa - Lobos, Moncayo and Tchaikovsky, among other repertoires.

As the principal bassoonist of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, directed by maestro Gustavo Dudamel, Gonzalo Hidalgo has also trained as a soloist.  constant refinement work on the bassoon with the first bassoonist of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Stefan Schweigert.  As a soloist he has been under the baton of Eduardo Marturet, Alfredo Rugeles, Dudamel and the maestro Claudio Abbado with whom he made the Concertante Symphony for Winds, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

In addition, he participated in the assembly of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, conducted by Simon Rattle, and in Mahler's Symphony No. 5, with Abbado. He has participated in the montages for the recordings with the important record label Deutsche Grammophon directed by maestro Gustavo Dudamel, together with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, with whom he has performed in the best theaters in America, Europe and Asia.

He is currently part of the academic committee of the national school of bassoons of the system in Venezuela, principal invited conductor of Simon Bolivar Symphony and attends DMA at Shenandoah University with Master Jan Wagner.