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,...
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...
KÖLN, GERMANY — SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 | For his debut as Chief Conductor, Cristian Măcelaru chose alongside Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 the contrasting “Te Deum” composed by the Bohemian composer Antonín Dvořák in 1892 on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES — FEBRUARY 22, 2014 — The two weeks of concerts of Stravinsky, Debussy and Ravel now under way and curated by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s conductor emeritus Pierre Boulez, are among the most intriguing this season. And Thursday night’s opening...
SANTA CRUZ, CA — March 14, 2022 — The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, America’s longest running festival of new orchestral music, celebrates its 60th Anniversary season with a return to a live, in-person concert season after two years of virtual orchestra and...
INTERLOCHEN, Mich. (Nov. 18, 2019) — Cristian Măcelaru has been named the inaugural Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the World Youth Symphony Orchestra (WYSO) at Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen Center for the Arts President Trey Devey...
PARIS, FRANCE — NOVEMBER 12, 2019 | Conductor Cristian Măcelaru has been appointed Music Director of the Orchestre National de France. It was announced today by Sibyle Veil, President and CEO of Radio France, and Michel Orier, Director of Music and Creation at Radio...
