“The music was broadcasting (the colour) like a prism in direct sunlight! All of the score’s sweeping romance, elegant grandeur, and intimate melancholy was masterfully brought to life by conductor Aleksandar Markovic.”
ROGER DOWNEY, SEATTLE OPERA
Aleksandar Marković is the Principal Guest Conductor of Sinfonia Varsovia.
Together they initiated 2023/24 season by performing three concerts at sold-out La Folle Journée Festival in Warsaw, and recording integral violin concertos of Pierre Wissmer with Oleg Kaskiv for the Swiss label Claves.
In October 23′ the recording of Rachmaninov’s “Paganini Variations” with Nathanael Gouin for label Mirare was released. Their exciting touring schedule for the 2022/ 23 season included concerts at La folle journée Festival in Nantes and the region, a performance of Penderecki’s dramatic Symphony Nr.2. at Athen’s Megaron and appearance at Ravenna Festival where they joined forces with Youth Orchestra Luigi Cherubini to deliver a Penderecki, Beethoven and Gorecki experience. At home in Warsaw they presented Mahler’s Symphony Nr.1 and a world premiere of Ash by Pawel Mykietyn within Anniversary Concert at Polish National Theater, and performed at the opening and closing concerts of Sinfonia Varsovia Summer Festival. The CD recording of Szymanowski and Nielsen violin concertos with Anna Agafia has been released by Claves.
As Chief Conductor of Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra, Aleksandar opened the 2022/23 season with Julian Rachlin at an open-air event Korzo. He takes the orchestra to Belgrade Music Festival with works of Strauss and Scriabin, and collaborates with Misha Maisky in an all- Tchaikovsky “Winter Dreams” programme. The previous season featured two programmes within the frame of Novi Sad being the European Capital of Culture 2022: the closing concert of the “Migration” concert series and Mahler’s monumental Symphony Nr. 2 Ressurection. Other highlights included Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem.
In autumn of 2022, Aleksandar conducted a new production of Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos at the Slovenian National Theatre, and returned to the Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra.
Orchestral appearances have included: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, RTE Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, National Orchestra of Belgium, Munich Radio Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Malmö Symphony, the Qatar Philharmonic, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Croatian HRT and Prague Radio symphony orchestras, the Slovenian Philharmonic and the Slovak Philharmonic, with whom he recorded the CD Sinful Women for Czech national label Supraphon. He has also enjoyed successful debuts with the Wuppertal Opera and Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Symphony Orchestra of Teatro Verdi Trieste, Bremen Philharmonic, Lübeck Philharmonic and Mannheim Chamber Orchestra.
Aleksandar Marković commands a wide range of symphonic and operatic repertoire, reaching from Classic and Romantic to contemporary styles. His keen interest in 20th-century and avant-garde music has led to performances of works by the likes of Hartmann, Schiske, Istvan, Rozsa, Ligeti, Lutoslawski, Penderecki, Glass, D’Ase, Pintscher, Larcher, Tüür, Yusupov, Salonen and MacMillan. In 2018 he recorded Kasyan Goleizovsky ballet Scriabiniana and Lorenz Dangel’s ballet Satori for Sergey Polunin’s dance company.
