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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
his 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 16th year as Music
Director of the Oregon Symphony. 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 Orchestra.
In May 2011 Kalmar made his highly acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut with
the Oregon Symphony, 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
Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles
Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, Seattle
Symphony and Minnesota Orchestra. In Asia he has conducted both the
NHK and Yomiuri Nippon symphony orchestras as well as the Singapore
Symphony and Malaysian Philharmonic.
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 8 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.