Carlos Kalmar

Carlos Kalmar (born February 26, 1958 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan conductor. He 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 (1987-1991), the Stuttgart Philharmonic (1991-1995), and the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau, Germany. He was principal conductor of the Tonkünstlerorchester, Vienna from 2000 to 2003. Since 2000, Kalmar is the principal conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago. 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 2012-2013 season.

Kalmar and his wife Britta have two daughters, Svenja and Katja. Kalmar's parents are Austrian.

References

• Macaluso, Tony, Julia S. Bachrach, and Neal Samors (2009). Sounds of Chicago's Lakefront: A Celebration Of The Grant Park Music Festival. Chicago's Book Press. ISBN 978-0-9797892-6-7. 

External links

• Oregon Symphony
• Grant Park Music Festival, conductors biography page
• Stuttgart Philharmonic history page, German-language
• Interview with Carlos Kalmar by Bruce Duffie, July 12, 1999

Preceded by Heribert Beissel	Chief Conductor, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra 1987–1991	Succeeded by Miguel Gómez-Martinez
Preceded by Wolf-Dieter Hauschild	Chief Conductor, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra 1991–1995	Succeeded by Jörg-Peter Weigle
Preceded by James DePriest	Music Director, Oregon Symphony, Portland, Oregon 2003–present	Succeeded by