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 successfull debuts with the Tonhalle Orchestra and the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin.
He was assistant conductor in the DSO Berlin for the season 2007-2008.
Orosanu has also worked with the BBC Scotish Orchestra, Ensemble orchestral de Paris, Orchestre Lamoureux, Porto National Orchestra, "George Enescu" Philharmonic Orchestra Bucharest and the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducting the latter 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 Center 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”.
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