Aleksandar Marković serves as Principal Guest Conductor of Sinfonia Varsovia.
Born in Belgrade, and a graduate of Leopold Hager’s conducting class at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Aleksandar Marković also attended masterclasses at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, where he was awarded a Diploma d’onore. He received a scholarship from the Herbert von Karajan Foundation Berlin and won First Prize at the 7th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors in Katowice, Poland.
He was Chief Conductor of the Tirol Landestheater & Orchester in Innsbruck, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Director of Opera North, and Chief Conductor of Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra.
Aleksandar Marković made his US debut at Seattle Opera with Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (2020) and conducted new productions of Stravinsky’s Oedipus rex/Apollon musagéte (2021) as well as Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos (2022) at the Slovenian National Theatre. He appeared at Czech National Theatre Prague, Salzburg Landestheater, and Serbian National Theatre in Belgrade.
His orchestral appearances include: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Munich Radio Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, DSO Berlin, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Dresden Philharmonic, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, National Orchestra of Belgium, Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Malmö Symphony, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Qatar Philharmonic, Lithuanian National Symphony, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Janacek Philharmonic Ostrava, Belgrade Philharmonic, Symphony Orchestra of Croatian Radio and Television, Zagreb Philharmonic, Slovenian Philharmonic, Slovak Philharmonic, Kremerata Baltica, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Vienna Chamber Orchestra and Concertverein, and others.