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gpmf.orgCARLOS KALMAR
Artistic Director & Principal Conductor
Carlos Kalmar
has been Principal
Conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival
since 2000, and was named Artistic Director
in 2011. Under Kalmar’s leadership, the Grant
Park Music Festival has become one of the
world’s preeminent classical music festivals,
and his role has been essential in shaping its
artistic vision.
This fall, he enters his 14th year as Music
Director of the Oregon Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted extensively
in Europe with notable orchestras including the City of Birmingham
Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Czech Philharmonic,
Rotterdam Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Berlin Radio Symphony,
Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Orchestra della Toscana, Mozarteumorchester
Salzburg, and Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestras.
In May 2011 Kalmar made his highly acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut with the
Oregon Symphony Orchestra, noted by New York critic Alex Ross as “one
of the most gripping events of the current season”. The concert entitled
“Music for a Time of War” with works by Ives, Adams, Britten and Vaughan
Williams was subsequently released by Pentatone and was nominated for
a Grammy Award for “Best Orchestral Performance.” He is a regular guest
conductor of the Baltimore and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras and has
recently conducted subscription concerts with the Chicago Symphony,
Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San
Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, Seattle Symphony and Minnesota
Orchestras. In the Far East he has conducted both the NHK and Yomiuri
Nippon Symphony Orchestras as well as the Singapore Symphony and
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestras.
Born in Uruguay to Austrian parents,
Carlos Kalmar studied conducting with
Karl Österreicher at the College for Music
in Vienna and in 1984 won First Prize at the
Hans Swarowsky Conducting Competition.
He has previously served as Music
Director with the RTVE Madrid, Stuttgart
Philharmonic, Anhaltisches Theater and
Philharmonic Orchestra in Dessau and the
Niederösterreichisches Tonkünstlerorchester
in Vienna.
2 0 1 7 G R AN T PA R K MU S I C F E S T I VA L
The position of
Artistic Director and
Principal Conductor
is partially underwritten
by a generous gift
from Sage Foundation.