Juan González-Castelao is a Spanish Musicologist, Translator, Arts Manager and Conductor Musician [1999-2006] Spanish Musicologist, Arts Manager and Musician, also known as Juan Castelao (artistic name), active as a conductor between 1999 and 2006. He made his conducting debut as Principal Conductor of the Oviedo Youth Symphony Orchestra (JOSVE) for its inaugural season (1999-2000). Since then he has served as Music Director of the Georgetown Bach Chorale and Orchestra (Toronto) between 2000 and 2003, and Music Director of the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra (Vancouver) between 2003 and 2006. His activity has included guest appearances with the Navarra Symphony Orchestra (Pamplona), the Asturias Symphony Orchestra (Oviedo), the León Symphony Orchestra (León), and the Asturias Philharmonic Orchestra (Gijón). Musicologist and Arts Manager Parallel to his task as a conductor, González-Castelao has pursued his career as a Musicologist, devoting his academic and linguistic vocation both to research and to the translation into Spanish of key music history and theory books for Akal Ediciones. His most recent works include the Spanish versions of Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff's A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, Alan W. Atlas's Renaissance Music and Joost Langeveld's Horen en zien. His PhD Thesis in Musicology, completed in December 2007, analyses in detail the life and career of Spanish conductor Ataúlfo Argenta (1913-1958). This thesis was awarded Summa cum laude, as well as the VIII Orfeón Donostiarra-Universidad del País Vasco Award for Music Research in 2007-2008. The book version of this research is available in Spanish under the title Ataúlfo Argenta: Claves de un mito de la dirección de orquesta, published by the Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales (ICCMU) in collaboration with Caja Cantabria and the Castro Urdiales Town Council. González-Castelao has been awarded the Edison Fellowship by the British Library Sound Archive, where he has focused his research on computer-based performance analysis, being one of the first scholars in Spain interested in this field. The results of this research have been presented in the National Conference of the Spanish Musicological Society (Cáceres, 2008). He has presented his research in different conferences in Dublin, Barcelona, Madrid, Cáceres, Valladolid and Oviedo, and his articles have appeared in Debats, Cuadernos de Música Iberoamericana, Melómano. He has also given master classes and lectures at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP), the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Oviedo, the Fundación Asturiana de Estudios Hispánicos (Cursos de la Granda) and the Universidad del País Vasco (Cursos