sentences:  In 2006, Guinand worked with John Adams and Peter Sellars as Choir Master in the World Premiere of A Flowering Tree in Vienna, Austria and in its 2007 recording with the London Symphony Orchestra for Nonesuch Records.María Guinand was born in Caracas on 3 June 1953.She started her musical studies at 7 years old receiving piano lessons with Alberto Grau and Cristina Vidal Pereira, as well as beginning her formal studies at the “Juan Manuel Olivares” School of Music in Caracas under the tutelage of Angel Sauce and Gonzalo Castellanos.