Daniel Jinga, the General Director and Choir Master of the Bucharest National Opera, will make his Canadian conducting début with the Kindred Spirits Orchestra on June 29. The concert, titled Beginnings and Endings, also features pianist Daniel Vnukowski.
Jinga is well known in his native Romania, where he has been a prominent figure in the world of classical music for more than a decade.
Daniel Nicolae Jinga
Daniel Jinga is a native of Buzău, Romania. He studied at the Theological Seminary in Bucharest, and on graduation, continued his studies at the Faculty of Composition, Musicology and Music Pedagogy at the National University of Music in Bucharest. There, he earned a Master’s Degree in Choral Conducting and the Stylistics of Conducting, and subsequently a Doctor of Music in 2012, where his thesis was titled “Representatives of the Romanian a cappella choral creation at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century — Techniques of choral construction and conducting”.
He had begun his career while studying, and was appointed the second conductor of the renowned Madrigal National Chamber Choir in 2003.
- He made his début conducting with the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra in 2009.
- In 2012, he won a competition to become Choirmaster of the Bucharest National Opera, a position he still occupies.
- In 2015, he was appointed principal conductor of the Muntenia Symphony Orchestra in Tîrgoviște.
- In 2016, he became first conductor of the Bucharest Metropolitan Orchestra, conducting a remarkable series of galas and independent musical productions.
- From January 2019 to December 2020, he was Artistic Director of the Bucharest National Opera, and was appointed the Director General in March 2021.
Along with the usual Western classical repertoire, Jinga has launched and conducted projects that blend symphonic music and pop-rock. The very popular series has featured many of Romania’s top mainstream acts.
The Concert
- Pianist Daniel Vnukowski will perform César Franck’s Symphonic Variations, a work in three parts;
- The orchestra will perform Vincent D’Indy’s Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français (Symphony on a French Mountain Air), one of d’Indy’s works based on folkloric melodies that he’d heard in a French village overlooking the Cévennes
- The program closes with Georges Bizet’s Symphony in C, a work Bizet composed at the Paris Conservatory at the age of 17.
There will be a prélude: pre-concert recital, and pre-concert talk as well as a discussion and Q&A during the intermission with Daniel Jinga and host Jürgen Petrenko.
- Find more information about the concert, and tickets, [HERE].
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