Carlos Kalmar

Carlos Kalmar, shown here rehearsing with Chicago's summer orchestra.

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 (1987–91), the Stuttgart Philharmonic (1991–95), 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 2012–13 season.

Kalmar lives in Portland Oregon with his wife Raffaela and their son, Luca.

References

• Macaluso, Tony; Julia S. Bachrach; 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. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)

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
• Oregon Art Beat: Conductor Carlos Kalmar's 10th Anniversary