Carlos Kalmar

Carlos Kalmar, shown here rehearsing with the Grant Park Festival orchestra in Chicago.

Carlos Kalmar (born February 26, 1958, in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan conductor.[1] He began violin studies at age six. At age fifteen, he enrolled at the Vienna Academy of Music where his conducting teacher was Karl Österreicher. In 1984, he won first prize in the Hans Swarowsky Conducting Competition in Vienna.

Kalmar has been music director of the Hamburger Symphoniker (1987–91), the Stuttgart Philharmonic (1991–95), and the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau, Germany. He was principal conductor of the Tonkünstlerorchester, Vienna, from 2000 to 2003. Since 2000, Kalmar is the principal conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago. He is also music director of the Oregon Symphony, since 2003. In April 2008, the orchestra announced the extension of Kalmar's contract as music director to the 2012–13 season.[2]

Kalmar lives in Portland Oregon with his wife Raffaela and their son, Luca.

Recordings

Notes

  1. ↑ Macaluso, p. 194
  2. ↑ David Stabler (12 April 2008). "Oregon Symphony conductor renews contract". The Oregonian. Retrieved 2008-04-22.

References

  • Macaluso, Tony; Julia S. Bachrach & Neal Samors (2009). Sounds of Chicago's Lakefront: A Celebration Of The Grant Park Music Festival. Chicago's Book Press. ISBN 978-0-9797892-6-7.
Cultural offices
Preceded by
Heribert Beissel		 Chief Conductor, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra
1987–1991		 Succeeded by
Miguel Gómez-Martinez
Preceded by
Wolf-Dieter Hauschild		 Chief Conductor, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra
1991–1995		 Succeeded by
Jörg-Peter Weigle
Preceded by
James DePreist		 Music Director, Oregon Symphony, Portland, Oregon
2003–present		 Succeeded by


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.