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Looking forward to be one of the six fellows at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.
60th Anniversary highlights include the return to in-person concerts with three world premiere commissions; the live orchestral premiere of Jake Heggie’s INTONATIONS: Songs from the Violins of Hope featuring mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and violinist Benjamin Beilman; and works commemorating women’s suffrage in America and exploring the recent impact of drought and wildfires in the Western United States.
The Festival’s 60th anniversary season runs July 24 – August 7, 2022.
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Biography
The young conductor Christian Casleanu was born in Germany in a family with musicial tradition of romanian heritage and began playing the piano at a young age.
Over the time, he conducted symphonic orchestras like Rheinische Philarmonie Koblenz, Würtembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Sinfonieorchester Aachen (Germany), Limburgs Symfonie Orkest (the Netherlands), Balkan Symphony Orchestra (Italy), Filamonica “Mihail Jora” Bacau, Teatru “Nae Leonard” Galati and Camerata Regala Bucuresti (Romania).
Christian has specialized in Opera repertoire, starting with the main opera works to contemporary works. He worked at theatres like Opera Bonn, Aachen, Düsseldorf, Lüneburg (Germany), Opera national de Lorraine in Nancy (France), Opera Zuyd Maastricht, Opera Conservatorium Maastricht (the Netherlands) in productions like „Cosi fan tutte”, „Le Nozze di Figaro”, „La finta giardiniera” (Mozart), „Jerusalem” (Verdi), „Siegfried” (Wagner), „Neues vom Tage” (Hindemith), Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss) or „Anatevka/Fiddler on the roof” (Bock).
He obtained two Bachelor of Music diplomas in orchestral conducting and piano from Conservatorium Maastricht (the Netherlands), where he studied with the teachers Enrico Delamboye, Jan Stulen and Thomas Dorsch (conducting) and Katia Veekmans (piano).
Furthermore he specialised in orchestral conducting, finishing at the same institute his master studies with Arjan Tien.
At the same time, he refined his studies with Per Borin (Musikhochschule Stuttgart) and Ovidiu Balan (European Arts Academy). In addition, he followed following masterclasses: Jorma Panula (Panula Academy), Sylvain Cambreling, Christian Ehwald and Sigmund Thorp (“Jeunesses Musicales Conducting Masterclass” Bucuresti), Martin Akerwall and Dr.Peter Ettrop Larsen (Orchestral Conducting Academy), Enrique Garcia Asensio (Conducting Technique of Maestro Sergiu Celibidache) and Cristian Măcelaru (Romanian Chamber Orchestra).
He has worked recently as an “Assistant Conductor” with the DSO Berlin, Orchestre National de France, National Radio Orchestra of Romania and works regularly together with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne.
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„Where words fail, music speaks.”
Hans Christian Andersen