Around the Music Festival

The music director of the Slovak National Theater in the capital Bratislava has changed. Conductor Slavomír Jakubek resigned after a Culture Ministry audit and Rastislav Štúr, one of the permanent conductor, was promoted. Štúr was 48 years old, born in 1969, Bratislava. He studied at Janáček Conservatory in Brno and became the conductor of the Slovak National Theater since 1996. Currently he is also concurrently a guest conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra. The National Theater was used to Japanese movie “Nodame Cantabile”.

写真：Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra