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Carlos Kalmar
Uruguayan conductor (born 1958)
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Carlos Kalmar, shown here rehearsing with the Grant Park Festival orchestra in Chicago. | |
Born | (1958-02-26) February 26, 1958 (age 66) Montevideo, Uruguay |
Occupations | Conductor |
Musical artist
Carlos Kalmar (born February 26, 1958, in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan conductor.[1]
Biography
Born to Jewish immigrant parents from Austria,[2] Kalmar began violin studies at age six.
Carlos kalmar biography
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.
He was principal conductor of the Tonkünstlerorchester, Vienna, from 2000 to 2003.
In the USA, Kalmar was principal conductor of the Grant Park Music Fes