
Education
Violin & conducting at Czech Republic & the Royal College of Music in Stockholm with Prof. Jorma Panula
Career
Music director of the National Theater in Prague, 2009 – present
Generalmusikdirektor of the Theater & Philharmonie Essen, season 2013-2014
Highlights
La Clemenza di Tito(Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden); Salome (Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden); Don Giovanni (National Theater Prague); Flying Dutchman (New National Theatre Tokyo); Katya Kabanova (Opéra National de Paris), The Bartered Bride (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia Valencia); Idomeneo (Teatro Regio Torino)
Prizes
Winner of the first edition of the international conductor contest ‘Sir Georg Solti’ in Frankfurt, 2002
Worked with
Berliner Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks München and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonie Essen, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Filarmonica della Scala, Accademia Santa Cecilia Roma, Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Prague Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra a.o.
Recent and future productions
Offenbach’s Les Contes d’ Hoffmann (Opéra National de Paris); Die Zauberflöte (Vlaamse Opera); L’ Amour des trois oranges (Nederlands Opera Amsterdam); Halévy’s La Juive (Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden)
Last update on 12 November 2012