Principal Guest Conductor of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Music Director of the Ostrava National Theatre in Czech Republic
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Czech conductor Marek Sedivy, born in Prague in 1987, is currently the Principal Guest Conductor of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and Opera MUsic Director of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre Ostrava, Czech Republic.
He was Chief Conductor of the Silesian Theatre in Opava, Czech Republic (2016-2018), where he led new productions of Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana (2016), Dvorak Rusalka (2017), Verdi Falstaff (2017) and Janacek The Cunning Little Vixen (2018).
He has cooperated with the Prague State Opera (Verdi Macbeth), JK Tyl Theatre in Pilsen (Khachaturian Spartacus, Verdi Macbeth) and the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre Ostrava (Fibich The Tempest, Verdi A Masked Ball, Puccini Tosca, Smetana The Kiss).
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He has also performed at a number of leading European music festivals, including Prague Spring (2015, 2018, 2021, Chopin Festival Marienbad (2009), Young Prague (2011), Dvorak Prague (2012 and 2020), Pardubice Music Spring (2016 and 2018), MozartFest Würzburg (2016) and the Internationale Gluck Opern Festspiele Nürnberg (2014 and 2016).
In the 2012/13 season, he was, on the recommendation of Jiri Belohlavek, engaged as assistant conductor for the production of Wagner Tristan and Isolde at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto.
In January 2015, he recorded two Beethoven piano concertos (Nos. 1 and 4) for Sony with the Chinese pianist Fang Yuan and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Early in his career, Marek Sedivy was the artistic director of the Ensemble Terrible HAMU, which focuses on new compositions by young composers. He graduated from the Prague Conservatory and Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in Conducting, and has participated in numerous master classes, including K. Kiesler (University of Michigan), V. Ponkin (Moscow Conservatory), and N. Baxa (European Academy of Music in Teplice). He received the Bayreuth Festival Wagner Society scholarship in 2017, permitting him to deepen his knowledge of Wagner.
He lives in Prague with his wife and daughter.
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