BUCHAREST, RO — September 26, 2023 — The “George Enescu” International Festival concluded its 26th edition on September 24th with a magnificent performance by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, led by conductor Klaus Makela, at the Palace Hall in Bucharest. This...
KÖLN, DE — October 10, 2023 — The WDR Sinfonieorchester and Cristian Măcelaru, Chief Conductor of the WDR Sinfonieorchester since 2019/20, will continue their successful collaboration in the 2025/26 season. After two contract periods as principal conductor, the...
SANTA CRUZ, CA — March 21, 2023 — The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, America’s longest-running festival of new orchestral music, celebrates its 61st season July 30 – August 13, 2023. Led by Grammy Award-winning Music Director and Conductor Cristian Măcelaru,...
GRAMOPHONE — MARCH 2023 | Great credit must go to the Romanian conductor Cristian Măcelaru, who displays real kinship here with the melodic colour and cast of the music and marries it so compellingly to the textural elements. It sounds gorgeous, spacious and...
WARNER CLASSICS — 26 AUGUST 2022 | Violinist Augustin Hadelich has conceived an album that unites three works for violin and orchestra and a piece originally written for solo guitar. For Britten’s Violin Concerto, Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No 2 and Sarasate’s Carmen...
PARIS, FR — 15 SEPTEMBER 2022 — Cristian Măcelaru, Music Director of the Orchestre National de France, Sibyle Veil, Présidente-directrice générale (Chief Executive Officer) of Radio France, and Michel Orier, Directeur de la musique et de la création (Director of Music...
SANTA CRUZ, CA — MARCH 13, 2017 — The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, America’s longest running festival of new orchestral music, celebrates the arrival of its brilliant new Music Director and Conductor, Cristian Măcelaru, with a sensational series of...
OCTOBER 8, 2018 — BBC Symphony Orchestra | Barbican Hall, London, UK. This evening at the Barbican was partly formed around the idea of musical animality – Beethoven’s propulsive overture to his ballet-score The Creatures of Prometheus opened the concert and Mason...
NOVEMBER 24, 2018 — Praise for Măcelaru and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Philadelphia Orchestra’s all-American program stays real by David Patrick Stearns, For the Inquirer. Each generation of American composers is faced with developing an authentic symphonic voice in...
NOVEMBER 14, 2018 — Guest conductor Cristian Măcelaru leads The Philadelphia Orchestra in the full-orchestra version of Aaron Copland’s complete score for Appalachian Spring on November 23 and 24 (more information and tickets can be found here). The following excerpt...
SANTA CRUZ, CA — MARCH 12, 2019 — The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, America’s longest running festival of new orchestral music, celebrates its 57th season, July 28 – August 11, 2019, with a remarkable women-centric season, featuring a series of relevant and...
COLOGNE, GERMANY — MAY 2, 2018 — Cristian Măcelaru, who will become the new Chief Conductor of the WDR Sinfonieorchester, one of Europe’s leading orchestras, effective with the 2019/2020 season! In September 2019, he will succeed the current Chief Conductor,...
