Artist Details Cristian OrosanuCategory: ConductorsCristian Orosanu exhibits a mixture of passionate exuberance, fiery determination, elegant clarity of expression and huge personal charm. However, what chiefly distinguishes him from his peers is his extensive repertoire, he has already conducted more than 30 operas and over 500 symphonic works.
Biography
The Romanian conductor Cristian Orosanu, has made several important debuts in recent seasons and is rapidly establishing his professional reputation beyond the borders of his native country. He has conducted the Orchestre de Paris and the Orchestre National de Bordeaux of which Le Monde de la Musique wrote, “Cristian Orosanu conducted … with a beautiful sense of phrase and architecture. … Orosanu's direction was infallible with a rare accuracy of style, more elegant and concise than is customary...”. He recently made his very successful debuts with the Tonhalle Orchestra and the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin. He was assistant conductor in the DSO Berlin for the season 2007-2008. BIOGRAPHY Orosanu has also worked with the BBC Scottish Orchestra, Ensemble orchestral de Paris, Orchestre Lamoureux, Porto National Orchestra, "George Enescu" Philharmonic Orchestra, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra and in 2011 the Israel Kibbutz Orchestra. He conducted the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Malko Competition in 2005, where he was awarded Second Prize. In 2003, Orosanu was engaged to conduct the Orchestre de Paris at the Aix en Provence festival.
In Japan, Orosanu has developed a close collaboration with a new, young and dynamic orchestra, the Hyogo Performing Arts Centre Orchestra where he conducted Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. During the last years, he also had the opportunity to work as assistant conductor to Yutaka Sado, Mstislav Rostropovich and Ingo Metzmacher.
Orosanu continues to conduct extensively in his native Bucharest where he has built up an extensive repertoire in both the symphonic and operatic field. He has a close relationship with the Bucharest National Radio Orchestra and has held positions with the National Opera in Bucharest and the Romanian Opera in Cluj, with a repertoire of more than 30 titles. He now holds the title of Permanent Conductor of the Brasov Philharmonic. He is a past recipient of the nationally acknowledged Romanian Prix de la Critique Musicale.
Prior to his conducting career, Orosanu was a highly respected horn player and played for five years with the Bucharest National Radio Orchestra. He studied horn and orchestral conducting at the High Academy of Music in Bucharest and at the same time attended courses with Maestro Constantin Bugeanu. Following this, he was awarded a scholarship to study at the Internationale Bachakademie in Stuttgart with Helmuth Rilling.
Orosanu is an accomplished linguist and speaks fluent French, English, Italian, German and Spanish. In 2005, he completed his doctoral thesis on “Tempo and dramatic sense in the Operas of Mozart”.
Orosanu's pedagogic activity as an orchestra professor began in 1999 at the High Academy of Music in Cluj, where he taught 250 students. Between 1999 and 2003 he performed many concerts across Romania and abroad with his three student orchestras.
In 2010 he began teaching a conducting class at the High Academy of Music in Iasi and in 2011 he will lead a conducting master-class iwith the Iasi Philharmonic Orchestra. ReviewsCristian Orosanu carries out an admirable performance with the National orchestra Bordeaux Aquitaine. The orchestra sounds with a creditable plenitude and coherence, and the Romanian conductor can balance the desks to excite the wood winds, to make vibrate the cords and to contain the glare of the brass section.This sence of balance serves the singers as well, helping them not to force their voices.
Gilles Charlassier, Anaclase.com - September 2010 REVIEWS Cristian Orosanu succeds to rule the orchestra through a perfect knowledge of the score.
Marcel Frandes, Agenda LiterNet, February 2009
Cristian Orosanu inspires the orchestra provocking the enthusiastic applause of the audience, for a masterpiece with plenty of discographic references, such us Stravinsky's Fire Bird.
Oltea Serban-Parau, Ziarul Financiar, February 2009
The firmness and the depths are the pluses that recommand Cristian Orosanu
Adevarul Literar&Artistic, February 2009 |
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