Aleksandar Marković (born in Belgrade, 7 August 1975) is a
Serbian conductor
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Marković studied conducting at the
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (Vienna), in the class of
Leopold Hager. He earned a ''Diploma d'onore'' at the
Accademia Musicale Chigiana
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in Siena, where he attended a
master class
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in conducting. He was a holder of the
Herbert von Karajan
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Foundation's scholarship. In 2003, he won the First Prize at
(7th) in Katowice, Poland.
Marković was a chief conductor of ''Tyrolean Opera House'' (Tiroler Landestheater
Innsbruck
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), from 2005 to 2008. He was a Music Director and Principal Conductor of the
Brno Philharmonic Orchestra
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from 2009 to 2015. Markovic was the Music Director of
Opera North
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for the 2016/2017 season. He is the Principal Guest Conductor of
Sinfonia Varsovia
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History
Waldemar Dąbrowski and Franciszek W ...
(from 2022)
and Chief Conductor of Vodvodjanski Symphony Orchestra.
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* Maestro Arts agency biography of Aleksandar Markovic
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1975 births
Living people
Male conductors (music)
Serbian conductors (music)
21st-century Austrian conductors (music)
21st-century male musicians
Accademia Musicale Chigiana alumni
Music directors of the Opera North