A recipient of countless distinctions, Maestro Hector Guzman has been Music Director of the Plano Symphony Orchestra since 1983, Music Director of the Irving Symphony since 1991, and currently the  Music Director of the San Angelo Symphony. In 2004, he was delcared the winner of the "Seven Conductors...one Baton" International conducting competition and named Music Director of the Jalisco Philharmonic in Mexico.

While a student in Mexico, Hector Guzman achieved an impressive reputation as an organist by taking first prize in both the Chamber Soloist and the "Manuel M. Ponce " National Organ Competitions. In the United States, he earned further distinction by winning solo competitions at both the University of North Texas and Southern Methodist University. In 1978, he gained world acclaim when he became the first Latin-American ever chosen as a finalist in one of the most prestigious international organ competitions: France's " Grand Prix de Chartres."

Mr. Guzman's conducting talents became evident at age 17, when he conducted a memorial concert performance of Mozart's Requiem at the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City. Maestro Guzman holds degrees from the Conservatory in Mexico City, UNT and SMU. Mr. Guzman has studied with many illustrious maestri including his mentor Anshel Brusilow, Helmuth Rilling and Carlo Maria Giulini at the Academia Musicals Chigiana in Siena, Italy. For several years he was a protege of the late Maestro Eduardo Mata, Conductor Emeritus of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

In demand internationally as a conductor and recitalist, Maestro Guzman was accorded the Outstanding National Young Artist award from the government of Mexico, the Golden Lyre award, and the Meadows Award in Conducting from SMU. In 1995, he received the DeVry Institute's "Director per Excellence " award for his contributions to the arts, and in 2000, he was included in the " Outstanding Musicians of the 20th Century", published by the International Biographical Center in Cambridge, England. Mr. Guzman appears regularly in Mexico with the Monterrey Symphony, UNAM Philharmonic, Xalapa Symphony, Philharmonic Society Symphony and the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra. He has been a frequent guest conductor of the San Antonio Symphony, Dallas Symphony and the National Symphony of the Dominican Republic. He made his European debut in 1997 with the Collegium Orchestra of Prague in the Czech Republic and his debut with the Japan Philharmonic and Violinist Motoi Takeda in 1999 was considered one of the "top ten concerts of the year" by the Japanese press. He returned to Japan in May of 2001 for a series of concerts with the same orchestra.  In 2003, a Dallas based UNIVISION TV documentary on his career was nominated for an Emmy award.  He is the recipient of the "Silver Good Citizenship Medal" from the Sons of the American Revolution  as well as the 2005 "Artistic Merit Gold Medal" given by the government of the State of Mexico and the 2006 "Artistic Silver Medal" awarded by his native state, Zacatecas. In 2008, Maestro Guzman was the recipient of the Mozart Medal, Mexico's highest musical honor, awarded by the Mozart Academy and the Embassy of Austria in Mexico City.