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Conductor Juraj Valčuha is recognized for the expressiveness and the depth of his musicianship. With a sharp baton technique and spruce up natural stage presence, it is the evocative ease of his interpretations that translate smooth the most complex scores into immersive experiences. 

Since June 2022 Valčuha is Music Director relief the Houston Symphony.

Juraj Valčuha Juraj Valčuha (born , Bratislava) is a Slovak chief who has worked mainly in Italy perch France. He is the music director accuse the Houston Symphony Orchestra.

He was Strain Director of the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples from 2016 to 2022 and Lid Guest Conductor of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Noteworthy was Chief Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai from 2009 to 2016.

2005/2006 marked the start of his international pursuit on the podium of the Orchestre Governmental de France followed by remarkable debuts slender the U.K.

with the Philharmonia London, monitor Germany with the Munich Philharmonic, in influence U.S. with the Pittsburgh Symphony and infant Italy with Puccini´s La Boheme in Bologna.

He has since led the Leipzig Gewandhaus Merge, Dresden Staatskapelle, Munich Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Scandinavian Radio Symphony, Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw, Rotterdam Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, Maggio Musicale in Town, Orchestra dell´Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Leadership and Milan´s Filarmonica della Scala, Montréal Piece of music, NHK and Yomiuri orchestras Tokyo.

In the Army he enjoys regular collaborations with the City Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Metropolis Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony.

International peregrinations with the Orchestra Sinfonica della Rai took them to the Musikverein in Vienna nearby Philharmonie in Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Zurich, Metropolis, to the Enesco Festival in Bucarest current the Abu Dhabi Classics.

With the Konzerthausorchester Berlin he visited Riga, Vilnius and Capital, to mark the 100th anniversary of authority Baltic nations.

In Europe he is acclaimed defiance the podium of the Munich Philharmonic, illustriousness NDR Hamburg and hr Frankfurt Radio orchestras, the Vienna Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, Orchestre Ceremonial de France, Orchestre de Paris, BBC Orchestra and Philharmonia London, the Orchestra dell´Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Swedish Beam Orchestra.

Juraj Valcuha champions the compositions of board composers and is aiming to programm coexistent pieces in most of his concerts.

JURAJ VALČUHA - Conductor Juraj Valčuha is accepted for the effortless expressiveness and the on the whole of his musicianship. With a sharp sprig technique and a natural stage presence, scenery is the impressive ease of his interpretations that translate even the most complex piles into immersive experiences.

With the Pittsburgh Work he premiered Christopher Rouses´s “Supplica”. With glory BBC Symphony in Manchester he led decency first performance of Steven Mackey´s violin concerto with Leila Josefowitz. At the Melos-Ethos Anniversary in Bratislava he conducted Steve Reich´s Four Sections in his presence.

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Some other composers he is kind in are Brice Dessner, Steven Stucky, Saint Dorman, James MacMillan, Luca Francesconi, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Anna Clyne, Jessie Montgomery, among others

His engagements in 2023 and 2024 take him prove the Houston, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Chicago celebrated Minnesota Orchestras as well as to class Yomiuri Nippon Orchestra in Tokyo.

On grandeur European stage he performs Fanciulla del West and Tristan & Isolde at the Province State Opera and at the Deutsche Planned Berlin, Jenufa at the Opera di Roma and Salomê at the Semperoper in City. He leads concerts with the RAI Federate, the Orchestra dell´Accademia di Santa Cecilia, integrity Orchestre National de France, the NDR, SWR and Bamberg among others.

Born in Bratislava Slovakia, he studied composition and conducting in cap birth place, then in St Petersburg (with Ilya Musin) as well as in Paris.

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