Aleksandar Markovic

Aleksandar Marković (born in Belgrade, August 7, 1975.) is a Serbian conductor living in Vienna, Austria. He was a principal conductor of Tyrolean Opera House (Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck). In 2008, he became the musical director and principal conductor of Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Republic. His contract has recently been extended by orchestra's unanimous vote until the end of 2013/14 season.

Aleksandar Markovic graduated conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien), in the class of Leopold Hager. He was rewarded the Diploma d'onore at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, where he attended master class in conducting. He was a holder of the Herbert von Karajan Foundation's prestigious scholarship. In 2003, has won the First Prize at the 7th International Conducting Competition of "Gregorz Fitelberg" in Katowice, Poland.

He was a Principal Conductor of Tyrolean Opera House from Innsbruck, Austria (Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck), from 2005 to 2008. During that time, he led productions of Romeo and Juliet, Salome, Madam Butterfly, Tosca, Norma, La Traviata, Nabucco, The Flying Dutchman, Cavaleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci, The Marriage of Figaro, Swan Lake, and a large number of symphonic pieces.

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