He is an orchestral
conductor born in Montevideo, Uruguay
to Austrian parents.He started
to study the violin when he was six and by the time he was fifteen he was
studying conducting at the Vienna Musikhochschule.He won first prize in a conducting
competition in 1984 and debuted in 1985 with the NDR Symphony Orchestra. In 1987 he became music director of
the Hamburg Symphony, followed by the Stuttgart Philharmonic and the Anhaltisches Theatre in Dessau, Germany.
In 2000 he made his British
debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and has since appeared
with many other orchestras in Britain.
He has conducted many symphony
and opera orchestras including the Hamburg
and Vienna State Operas, Berlin Radio Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra,
the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and
the Cincinnati Symphony, and is currently Music Director of the Oregon
Symphony and Principal Conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival. He has made several acclaimed
recordings and has received international acclaim from many musical
critics.
BBC Scottish Symphony recordings
Cello Concerto in C major, (Mateo Albeniz)
Hyperion 67544 (CD:
The Romantic Cello Concerto-1)
Conductor
-Carlos Kalmar
Cello - Alban Gerhardt
(This recording was made from a
concert in Caird Hall, Dundee on
the 17th and 18th December 2004 and won a 2006 Midem Classical Award.)
