Carlos Kalmar (born February 26, 1958, in
Montevideo
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) is a Uruguayan
conductor
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.
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Biography
Born to Jewish immigrant parents from
Austria
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, Kalmar 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
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. He was principal conductor of the
Tonkünstlerorchester,
Vienna
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, from 2000 to 2003.
In the USA, Kalmar was principal conductor of the
Grant Park Music Festival
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in
Chicago
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from 2000 to 2024. He was music director of the
Oregon Symphony
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from 2003 to 2021.
In May 2021, the
Cleveland Institute of Music
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(CIM) announced the appointment of Kalmar as its next director of orchestral studies, effective 1 July 2021. In May 2023, investigation began into alleged Title IX violations by Kalmar at CIM. These allegations were dismissed in August 2023, and the conductor has taken legal action against CIM for damage to his reputation.
Kalmar currently lives with his second wife, Raffaela, a violinist and nurse, and their two sons, Luca and Claudio, in
Shaker Heights
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,
Ohio
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.
Recordings
* ''
Music for a Time of War''. Works by
Charles Ives
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,
John Adams
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,
Benjamin Britten
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,
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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. The Oregon Symphony.
PENTATONE PTC 5186393 (2011)
* ''
This England''. Works by
Edward Elgar
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,
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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,
Benjamin Britten
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. The Oregon Symphony.
PENTATONE PTC 5186471 (2012)
* ''
Spirit of the American Range''. Works by
George Antheil
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,
Walter Piston
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Life
Piston was born in Rockland, Maine at 15 Ocean Street to Walter ...
,
Aaron Copland
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. The Oregon Symphony.
PENTATONE PTC 5186481 (2015)
* ''
Haydn Symphonies''. Carlos Kalmar,
Oregon Symphony Orchestra
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.
PENTATONE PTC 5186612 (2017)
*
Aspects of America'' Carlos Kalmar,
Oregon Symphony Orchestra
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.
PENTATONE PTC 5186727 (2018)
Notes
References
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External links
Seldy Cramer Artists agency page on Carlos KalmarOregon Symphony biography of Carlos KalmarGrant Park Music Festival, conductors biography pageOregon Art Beat: Conductor Carlos Kalmar's 10th Anniversary
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1958 births
Living people
Male conductors (music)
Uruguayan male musicians
20th-century conductors (music)
21st-century conductors (music)
Musicians from Montevideo
Musicians from Portland, Oregon
Uruguayan conductors (music)
Uruguayan Jews
Uruguayan people of Austrian-Jewish descent
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna alumni
20th-century male musicians
21st-century male musicians
Cedille Records artists
Music directors of the Oregon Symphony
Chief conductors of the Tonkünstler Orchestra