Oliver von Dohnányi (born 2 March) is a
Slovak conductor based in
Prague
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,
Czech Republic
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.
Dohnányi was born in
Trenčín
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,
Czechoslovakia
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(now in
Slovakia
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) and studied
violin
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,
composition
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and conducting at the
Prague Academy for Music under
Václav Neumann and the
University of Music and Performing Arts in
Vienna
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under
Otmar Suitner. He made his conducting debut in 1979 with the
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in
Bratislava
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.
[ Slovak National Theatre]
Oliver Dohnányi
/ref> Previously, Dohnányi served as the music director of the Czech National Theatre in Prague, Intendent/Artistic Director of the Opera of the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, Intendent/Artistic Director of the Opera of the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre in Ostrava
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, and principal conductor of the Slovak Sinfonietta.
References
Latest news:
https://tvthek.orf.at/profile/Tirol-heute/70023/Tirol-heute-vom-13-03-2024/14217870/Wurzeln-und-Fluegel-im-Symphoniekonzert/15596911
https://schoepfblog.at/thomas-nussbaumer-das-5-symphoniekonzert-des-tsoi/
External links
Official web page
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Slovak conductors (music)
Hungarian male conductors (music)
Czech conductors (music)
Living people
People from Trenčín
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague alumni
Oliver Dohnanyi
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna alumni
21st-century conductors (music)
21st-century Czech male musicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
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