CINCINNATI (AP) — Cristian Măcelaru was hired Wednesday as music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra starting in the 2025-26 season.
The 44-year-old will be music director designate in the 2024-25 season and then will have a four-year term.
Măcelaru will succeed Louis Langrée, who leaves at the end of this season after serving as music director since 2013–14.
Măcelaru has been music director of the Orchestre National de France since the 2021-22 season and holds that job through 2026-27. He has been chief conductor of the WDR Sinfonieorchester in Cologne, Germany, since 2019-20 and is scheduled to step down after the 2024-25 season.
Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
National trying to wriggle out of promises with talk of 'fragile' economy
Efeso Collins' funeral to be held in Auckland on Thursday
Farmers selling stock, land as 'extreme' drought dries up streams
Crackdown on phone scammers leads to cutback in victim numbers
Oranga Tamariki IT overhaul leaves social workers without access to some information
More toll roads coming, but at what price?
Queen Maxima of the Netherlands braves the wind in a very eye
Body removed after violent attack at Auckland sushi shop
Dairy cattle must be tested for bird flu before moving between states, agriculture officials say
Qanon: Conspiracy theories weaponised by Russia and China around US Capitol violence