KÖLN, GERMANY — MAY 14, 2019 | WDR 3 — WDR Sinfonieorchester announced the 2019/20 season in a press conference in Cologne – conductor Cristian Măcelaru was introduced to WDR patrons and media! WDR Sinfonieorchester announced their 2019/20 season in a press conference...
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES — JANUARY 13, 2014 — Now 89, Sir Neville Marriner believes what’s hardest about becoming a geriatric conductor is how demand for public appearances increases, rather than wanes. Romanian-born conductor Cristian Măcelaru, 33, made his...
BACHTRACK — FEBRUARY 24, 2019 — Spring seems to have come early this year and this was reflected in tonight’s programme with an advanced celebration of that great festival of Spring, Easter in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Festival Overture. Leading us in an...
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF ROMANIA, US Tour 2019 – Cristian Măcelaru conducting Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and National Symphony Orchestra of Romania “The Jungle by Wynton Marsalis is heard here for the first time in its completed...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
THE HERALD SCOTLAND — OCTOBER 17, 2016 — COULD we have asked for more? The RSNO produced the goods on Saturday with a conductor new to its books. His name is Cristian Macelaru, he’s been around for some years, is attracting attention in the States and last month was...
NEW YORK TIMES — FEBRUARY 15, 2015 — As anniversaries go, a sesquicentennial may lack the obvious punch of a centennial or bicentennial. (Don’t bother to look it up; a sesquicentennial is a 150th anniversary.) But the classical-music world will take any anniversary it...
