Clarion Seven Muses - Nicolae Moldoveanu

Nicolae Moldoveanu was born in Romania and studied both violin and piano as a child. He now lives in Zürich as a Swiss citizen. He studied conducting with Wilfried Boettcher, Horst Stein, Ralf Weikert and Antal Dorati at the Musikhochschule in Zürich, Basel and Bern, also attending master classes with Lothar Zagrosek and Sergiu Celibidache.

At the Royal Academy of Music in London his teachers included Colin Metters, George Hurst and Sir Colin Davis. Upon graduating from the Academy, he was awarded the Edwin Samuel Dove Prize for special merit as well as the Ricordi Conducting Prize. In 1997 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

He has worked with many Swiss orchestras including the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich; in Germany with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of the Staatskapelle Dresden. In April 1994, at the invitation of Hans-Werner Henze, he conducted performances of contemporary opera at the Munich Biennale. He has also worked with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, BBC Concert, Manchester Camerata, Netherlands Radio Symphony, Stockholm Chamber Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra Johannesburg, and has returned to his native Romania to work with the Transylvania and George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestras. He has broadcast live for BBC Radio 3, Bavarian Radio and the South African Broadcasting Corporation.

In 1994 Nicolae Moldoveanu was appointed Arts Council Young Conductor to the Bournemouth Orchestras. Following a year’s extension of this appointment, he was offered the post of Resident Conductor, which he took up in 1996. In 1998 Nicolae Moldoveanu was appointed Principal Conductor of the English Sinfonia. Nicolae Moldoveanu was Associate Guest Conductor of the London Mozart Players from 2002 until 2008. In September 2008 he takes up the position of Chief Conductor of the Transylvanian State Philharmonic Orchestra.

His recent engagements include conducting the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House with Angela Gheorghiu, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival, the Ulster Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale Genoa, the Melbourne Symphony, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Philharmonie de Lorraine, the Odense Symphony, the Sonderjyllands Symphony, the Prague Radio Symphony, the Danish Radio Sinfonietta and the Bucharest Philharmonic.

He conducted Don Giovanni for Welsh National Opera and Coppelia for the Royal Ballet. He made his North American debut conducting a new production of Idomeneo for Canadian Opera and returned to conduct El amor brujo and La vida breve for Dallas Opera in 2004. He conducted Jenufa for the Norrlands Opera and Un Ballo in Maschera for Malmö Opera as well as making his Japanese debut with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in 2006 and recently conducted Onegin for the Teatro San Carlo, Naples and Carmen with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.

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