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Charles Olivieri-Munroe (Cond.)
Increasingly hailed in the international press for his innovative programming, interpretation of Slavic repertoire and his passion for purity of orchestral sound, Charles Olivieri-Munroe's hold on public imagination stems from a unique combination of talent and charisma. Following the breathtaking events of the Velvet Revolution his name has become closely associated with the city of Prague. Indeed, few conductors have taken a more unique journey onto the world's music scene.
The young Canadian conductor's career takes him across five continents, appearing with many of the world's finest orchestras, including the Israel Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Deutches Symphonie-Orchester, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Danish Radio Symphony, Budapest Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, Royal Brussels Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Oregon Symphony Orchestra, and those of New York, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Athens, Istanbul, Lisbon, Tokyo, Seoul and Mexico City.
Charles Olivieri-Munroe recently celebrated his 10th anniversary season as Chief Conductor with the North Czech Philharmonic in Teplice. Under his leadership the orchestra has grown in size and has rapidly risen to national prominence through acclaimed recording projects, commissions of new works, world premieres and live broadcasts. He formerly held the same position with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava (2001-2004) and served as Resident Conductor with the Brno Philharmonic (1995-97), and the Karlsbad Symphony Orchestra (1993-95).
On the opera podium, Olivieri-Munroe has appeared at the Berlin Komische Oper conducting Verdi's Falstaff, at Il Teatro Fenice in Venice and in Amsterdam where he presented the Netherlands National Ballet in a crossover production entitled Body and Voice. From 1992-94 he served as Permanent Conductor with the Brno Chamber Opera where he led such diverse productions as Handel's Acis and Galatea and Czech composer Ilya Hurnik's Diogenes. This season he makes his conducting debut in Milan conducting Mozart's Don Giovanni and at the Prague National Opera leading Dvorak's Stabat Mater - this to be followed in 2010 with a new production of Kaija Saariaho's L'Amour de Loin. He opened the North Czech Philharmonic's current season with a concertante version of Mozart's Don Giovanni and as the newly named Principal Conductor of the Colorado Crested Butte Festival 2008 he will lead three performances of Falstaff in July.
Originating from Toronto, Charles Olivieri-Munroe studied piano with the eminent pedagogue, Boris Berlin at the Royal Conservatory of Music and at the University of Toronto. Following his graduation in 1992 he won three Ontario scholarships to study conducting with Otakar Trhlik at the Janacek Academy of Music in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He was also a student of Jiri Belohlavek and spent two summers (1995&96) at L'Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena studying with Ilja Musin and Yuri Temirkanov. In 1997 Charles Olivieri-Munroe was a recipient of the $20,000 career grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. His international career was launched by a series of triumphs in international competitions culminating with his winning the First Prize in the 2000 Prague Spring International Music Festival Conducting Competition in which he also won the Supraphon Records, City of Prague and Czech Radio prizes.
Today at the age of 38 Charles Olivieri-Munroe is a key personality with every major musical institution in Prague. From the Czech Philharmonic, and the Prague Spring International Festival to the Prague Academy of Music where he was last year appointed by Jiri Belohlavek to the conducting faculty. Furthermore, a recently announced recording contract between SONY-BMG and the young Canadian conductor will see a first CD recorded in Prague this May. Olivieri-Munroe's recent extraordinary discovery in Toronto of the legendary Czech conductor Karel Ancerl's composition Sinfonietta will result in several commemorative performances including a recording led by him with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
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