After graduating from the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Performing
Arts, where he studied composition with Prof. V. Riedlbauch and conducting with
Profs. R. Eliška and J. Bělohlávek,
in 2008 Marko Ivanović received a doctorate in composition and composition
theory. In 2003, he became a laureate of the Grzegorz Fitelberg International
Competition for Young Conductors in
Katowice, Poland. From 2009 to 2014, he served as chief conductor of the
Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic, and since January 2015 he has been music
director of the Janáček Opera of the National Theatre in Brno. He has worked
with the Czech Philharmonic, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Radio
Symphony Orchestra, the Brno Philharmonic, the Prague Philharmonia, the Bohuslav
Martinů Philharmonic Zlín, and other renowned orchestras, and has regularly
performed at the largest Czech festivals, including Prague Spring,
Smetana’s Litomyšl, Janáček May, the Easter Sacred Music Festival, etc.
His most acclaimed international performances include the staging of the Brno
version of Leoš Janáček’s opera Jenufa in Malmö and the production of The
Makropulos Case at the Göteborg Opera. Furthermore, he has appeared as a guest
conductor in Germany, Poland, Bosnia, Japan and other countries. Marko Ivanović
is a promoter of and specialist in contemporary and 20th-century music. He has
given a number of world premieres of Czech works, as well as the first
performances in the Czech Republic of major contemporary pieces (Arvo
Pärt’s Passio, Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, and others). Over
the past few years, he has recorded two CDs with the Pardubice Chamber
Philharmonic and made numerous albums for Czech Radio. Within the Czech
Philharmonic, he has co-initiated the popular educative concert series for
schools Four Steps into a New World, which he currently continues to pursue with
the Prague Sym-phony Orchestra. Within his engagements at the National Theatre
in Prague, he has conducted the Czech premiere of Benjamin Britten’s opera
Curlew River and the
world premiere of Aleš Březina’s political opera Tomorrow There Will Be…,
starring the renowned singer Soňa Červená. Moreover, he conducted Miloš
Forman’s production A Walk Worthwhile, for which he created the
instrumentation, and in 2012, he conducted the world premiere of his own opera
Enchantia.
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Čhavorenge, Ida Kelarová, Czech Philharmonic, Marko Ivanović
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Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marko Ivanović
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