Guillermo Vaisman
Choir conductor, musician, and accordionist, Maestro Guillermo Vaisman was born in Entre Rios, Argentina. He studied in conservatories in Buenos Aires and the School of Arts and Musical Sciences of the Universidad Católica Argentina. Vaisman has been Musical Director and Conductor of the United Nations Singers since 2004. Prior to the UN, he founded the choir Capella Buenos Aires in 1994. In New York, he founded the chamber choirs Canopus Singers in 2005 and later Cappella Sur, mixed groups focusing on the choral literature of South America and Spain. Maestro Vaisman is invited regularly as an accompanist to the young “Tarumi Violinists”, both in the U.S.A. and Japan. Maestro Vaisman is a founding member of the Argentina Association of Choir Conductors (ADICORA) and a member of the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM). In 2012 he conducted the UN Singers in performances with the Japanese singer and songwriter Tokiko Kato at Carnegie Hall and in Hiroshima, Japan. He appeared again at Carnegie Hall in 2016, conducting the Children’s Choir Redes USA and in 2018 conducting the UN Singers at Isaac Stern Auditorium. As an accordionist, Vaisman is invited every year by the "Accordions Around the World" Summer Festival at Bryan Park in Manhattan, being also an active musician on the New York tango scene, regularly performing at the Summer Tango Festival in Central Park and at venues throughout the city. In 2019, Maestro Vaisman founded the instrumental ensemble "Mate Amargo". Mr. Vaisman is also presently Director of Music of Saint Peter's Lutheran Church in Manhattan, New York. During his career over the past 30 years, Maestro Vaisman has conducted more than 700 concerts in Argentina, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Philippines, South Korea, Switzerland, the United States and Uruguay.