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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
