CristianMăcelaru

Cristian Măcelaru is Music Director Designate of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Orchestre National de France, Chief Conductor of the WDR Sinfonieorchester, Artistic Director of the George Enescu Festival and Competition, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Interlochen Center for the Arts’ World Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director and Conductor of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.

2024/25 season highlights include Cristian’s debut with the Oslo Philharmonic and return engagements with the Wiener Symphoniker, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Cristian also has regular guest conducting relationships with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Philharmonia Orchestras.

In North America, he has led the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he was Conductor-in-Residence for three seasons.

His latest recording is of Enescu Symphonies with the Orchestre National de France on Deutsche Grammophon.