Carlos Kalmar was appointed Music Director of the Oregon Symphony Orchestra in 2003, and is also Principal Conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago. Until recently he was also Music Director of Vienna’s Tonkunstlerorchester. During his career, he has been Music Director of the Hamburg Symphony, Stuttgart Philharmonic and the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau, Germany.

In 2006-2007, Mr. Kalmar returned to the Dallas Symphony, Houston Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, and the Kansas City Philharmonic, and also conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Prague Symphony, and the BBC Wales. In 2007-2008 he returns to the Saint Louis Symphony, Vancouver Symphony , Residente Orchestre, and Royal Scottish National Orchestra, among others. During the past two seasons, Mr. Kalmar’s guest conducting engagements in North America have included subscription concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, New World Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Phoenix Symphony and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. His international conducting appearances have included the Berlin Radio Symphony, the National Orchestra of Spain, the ORT Orchestra of Florence, the Bournemouth Symphony, the Hamburg State Opera, the BBC Welsh, the Residentie, the Vienna State Opera, the Yomiuri Japan Orchestra, the Flemish Radio, and the Zurich Opera.

Carlos Kalmar’s most recent recordings include the 2006 release of the Szymanowski, Martinu and Bartok Violin Concertos with the Grant Park Orchestra and Jennifer Koh, and the 2003 release of the Joachim and Brahms Violin Concertos featuring Rachel Barton and the Chicago Symphony, and American Works for Organ and Orchestra featuring David Schrader and the Grant Park Orchestra (2002), both on the Cedille Records label.

Carlos Kalmar was born in Uruguay to Austrian parents. He showed an interest in music at an early age and began studying violin at age six. By age 15 his musical development led him to the Vienna Academy of Music where he studied conducting with Karl Osterreicher. He resides in Portland, Oregon and Vienna.

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