Carlos Kalmar
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Carlos Kalmar, shown here rehearsing with the Grant Park Festival orchestra in Chicago.
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| Born | (1958-02-26) February 26, 1958 (age 66) Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Occupations | Conductor |
Carlos Kalmar (born February 26, 1958, in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan conductor.[1]
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 TheaterinDessau. He was principal conductor of the Tonkünstlerorchester, Vienna, from 2000 to 2003.
In the USA, Kalmar has served the principal conductor of the Grant Park Music FestivalinChicago since 2000. He is also music director of the Oregon Symphony, since 2003. In April 2008, the orchestra announced the extension of Kalmar's contract as music director to the 2012–13 season. In February 2020, the Oregon Symphony announced that Kalmar is to conclude his music directorship of the orchestra at the close of the 2020-2021 season.[2][3][4] In May 2021, the Cleveland Institute of Music announced the appointment of Kalmar as its next director of orchestral studies, effective 1 July 2021.[5] As of May 2023, Kalmar is being investigated for alleged Title IX violations at the Cleveland Institute of Music.[6][7] These allegations were later found to be erroneous, and the conductor has a lawsuit in progress for damage to reputation against CIM, whose Title IX coordinator was fired in the aftermath. [8]
Kalmar currently lives with his second wife, Raffaela, a violinist and nurse, and their two sons, Luca and Claudio, in Shaker Heights, Ohio. [9] Kalmar was born to Jewish immigrant parents from Austria.[10]
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| Preceded by Heribert Beissel |
Chief Conductor, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra 1987–1991 |
Succeeded by Miguel Gómez-Martinez |
| Preceded by | Chief Conductor, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra 1991−1995 |
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| Preceded by | Music Director, Oregon Symphony 2003–2021 |
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