Geoffrey Gallegos, a San Francisco native and sixth generation Californian has been a fixture in the San Francisco Bay Area music community for 30 years. From 1985 to 1990, Maestro Gallegos served as Associate Conductor of the San Francisco Chamber Players Orchestra. In 1991 he was appointed Principal Conductor of the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra and continued in that capacity until 2006. In 2003, he was engaged as Assistant Conductor of the Peninsula Symphony Orchestra (N. CA) and served in that position until 2008. It was also in 2003 that Maestro Gallegos made his debut with Golden Gate Opera in San Francisco conducting I Pagliacci and was subsequently invited to assume the position of Music Director and Principal Conductor. During his tenure, which concluded in 2020, he prepared and conducted the majority of GGO main-stage productions. In 2004, Maestro Gallegos was invited to become Music Director and Conductor of the Kensington (CA) Symphony Orchestra, only the third in the Orchestra’s 43year history, a position he holds currently. In 2015, Maestro Gallegos was engaged to become Music Director and Conductor of West County Winds, a symphonic wind and percussion ensemble in residence at Contra Costa Community College and serving West Contra Costa County. Most recently (November/2021), he was appointed the new Music Director and Conductor of the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Gallegos has guest conducted numerous ensemblesthroughout the Bay Area, US and in Europe.

Maestro Gallegos has a deep commitment to music education. In 2001, he was appointed Music Director and Conductor of the Golden Gate Philharmonic, an all-city string youth orchestra in San Francisco that offers an integrated program of orchestral and chamber music performance, and music theory. In 2023, he was elevated to the position of Artistic and Executive Director and Principal Conductor. From 2001-2010, he participated in the Artist in Residence program at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts (S.O.T.A.) in San Francisco where he served as guest conductor of the orchestra and wind ensembles, and taught music theory and sight singing. From 2007-2010, Maestro Gallegos served as Instrumental Music Coordinator and Liaison at The Nueva School in Hillsborough where, among many duties, he oversaw the prestigious Menuhin/Dowling instrumental music program and organized and managed the Menuhin/Dowling Competition for Young Musicians.

Maestro Gallegos studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Preparatory School and San Francisco State University, completing, with honors, a Bachelor of Music degree in Instrumental Education and Conducting. Advanced studies in orchestral and operatic conducting continued at the University of Iowa School of Music, where he received a Master of Arts degree with High Distinction and served as Conductor of the University Chamber Orchestra. Four times he was awarded fellowships to the prestigious Conductors Institute held at West Virginia University and the University of South Carolina. This year culminated an 18 year tenure as a member of the Board of Directors of the Community Music Center in San Francisco where he began his music studies with the trumpet at the age of nine. Maestro Gallegos resides in San Francisco his hometown.