Roberto Minczuk, Music Director
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Music Director Showcase - full listing of all of the concerts that Maestro Roberto Minczuk conducts in the 2009/2010 season.
Conductor Roberto Minczuk is in his third season as Music Director of the Calgary Philharmonic. He also uniquely holds two concurrent major posts in the city of Rio de Janeiro Brazil - Artistic Director of the Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira and Music Director and Artistic Director of the Opera and Orchestra of the Teatro Municipal Rio de Janeiro.
Until 2005, he served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra in Brazil – having completed a nine year tenure as Co-Artistic Director of that same orchestra and a two year period as Associate Conductor of the New York Philharmonic.
A protégé of Kurt Masur, Maestro Minczuk has swiftly established himself as one of the most important emerging talents of his generation. Since his debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1998, he has been invited to conduct extensively in North America, with highly successful appearances at nearly all of the major North American orchestras and many of the European capitals as well.
In March, 2006 he assumed responsibility for much of the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s US tour period – filling in for an ailing Kurt Masur and won major critical acclaim and accolades for his leadership of the orchestra in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The current season brings Minczuk’s debut appearances with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. He returns (as he does every season) to the London Philharmonic Orchestra as well.
Past seasons marked his conducting debuts with the Cleveland Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Orchestre National de France, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C., the BBC Scottish Symphony, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Orchestre National de Lille, and the Orchestre National de Belgique.
Maestro Minczuk maintains his regular and ongoing relationships with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa, D.C. in addition to his special rapport with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Other notable highlights of the past several years include his presence at the Barbican Festival in January, 2006 in a program introducing the works of Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov to the United Kingdom with soprano Dawn Upshaw and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, his first appearance at the Edinburgh Festival in August, 2006 with the Opera de Lyon and his Concertgebouw Hall debut conducting the Residentie Orchestra of the Hague also in August, 2006.
Minczuk has also conducted the orchestras of Dallas, Houston, Minnesota, St. Paul, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Milwaukee, Nashville, Utah, Columbus, and New Jersey. On the international circuit, Maestro Minczuk has also appeared with (in addition to those above) the Halle Orchestra of Manchester, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lyon and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra among many others.
Maestro Minczuk recently completed a major recording project of the complete Bachianas Brasileiras of Hector Villa-Lobos with his own Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra for the BIS label. He also recorded the complete symphonic works of Antonio Carlos Jobim – a recording which won him a Latin Grammy in 2004.
Mr. Minczuk began his career as a prodigy of the French horn and already by the age of sixteen could count among his significant accomplishments the appointment of Principal Hornist of the Săo Paulo Symphony. While a student at The Juilliard School, he made solo appearances with the New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall and with the New York Philharmonic as part of the orchestra's Young People's Concerts.
After his graduation from Juilliard in 1987, Mr. Minczuk became a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at the invitation of Maestro Kurt Masur. Returning to Brazil in 1989, he pursued conducting studies with Eleazar de Carvalho and John Neschling.
Roberto Minczuk has won many prestigious awards and prizes. At the recommendation of Kurt Masur, he received the 2000 Martin E. Segal Award as one of Lincoln Center's most promising young artists. Other awards include the 1997 Revelation of the Year Award given to the most outstanding young artist by the Performing Arts Critics Association in Săo Paulo, and the 1991 Moinho Santista Youth Prize (the most important prize in Brazil) awarded in various disciplines for extraordinary achievement in a chosen field. | 
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