Marko Ivanović

Marko Ivanović was born in 1976 in Prague. He attended the Prague Conservatory and subsequently the Academy of Performing Arts, where he studied composition and conducting (Prof. R. Eliška, J. Bělohlávek). In 1999 he took up an internship at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht with prof. Jurjen Hempel.

As a composer of classical music he has regularly cooperated with leading Czech ensembles, and his compositions have been played at a host of concerts both in the Czech Republic and abroad (Wien Modern, Europe Young Classic in Berlin, etc.). He is the author of numerous scenic, radio and film music compositions.

As a conductor, he has collaborated with various Czech and foreign orchestras: the Prague Symphony Orchestra, Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra, Filharmonia Sudecka (Poland), Toyama Academy Orchestra (Japan), etc. In 2003 he became the laureate of the G. Fitelberg International Competition of Young Composers in Katowice, Poland. Marko Ivanović originally collaborated with Prague’s National Theatre on a freelance basis (P. Glass: La Belle et la Bête, B. Britten: Curlew River). In September 2006 he began working there as a conductor. He participated o. a. on Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, on „political-trial-opera“ Tommorow will be… and with the stage director Miloš Forman on the jazz opera A Walk Worthwhile (as a conductor and as an author of a new orchestration). From August 2009 he will be appointed as a chief-conductor of Pardubice Chamber Philharmony Orchestra.