Peter Valentovic, Conductor

Slovak young conductor Peter Valentovic, one of the most talented conductors of the new generation, first successfully entered his career as a pianist and piano vocal coach. He won several domestic piano competitions before studying conducting under Professor Leopold Hager at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and Professor Zsolt Nagy at the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique in Paris.

While studying in Vienna, he was awarded the "Victor Bonzou Scholarship Fund" in recognition of his extraordinary artistic talent.

Peter Valentovic is an important musical member of the Tyrol Festival and director of the Teatro Bolzano in Italy. He is the conductor and choral conductor of the Cape Town Opera House in South Africa and the first resident conductor of the Istanbul National Opera.

He worked with Sir John Elliot Gardiner, Franz Welser-Möst and Friedrich Haider.

Currently, Pyotr Valentovic is one of the most popular conductors in Slovakia. He is a regular guest conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovak National Opera in Bratislava and the Kosice State Opera. In September 2018, he was appointed chief conductor of the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava.

Orchestras with which Peter Valentovic has collaborated also include: Vienna ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin Staatskapelle, Welsh National Orchestra, Essen Philharmonic Orchestra, Italian Museum Haydn Symphony Orchestra of Erzano and Trento, Toscanini Symphony Orchestra of Parma, Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Malmö Opera Orchestra, Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest State Opera Orchestra, Prague State Opera Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra and Osaka Symphony Orchestra.

At the Vienna State Opera he served as vocal and language arts director for Czech and Russian repertoire. He also served as vocal director at the Opéra Bastille and Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. In September 2013, he made his debut as conductor at the Edytta Gruberova solo concert at the Theater an der Wien. Since then, Pyotr Valentovich began a long-term partnership with the legendary coloratura soprano and has accompanied Ms. Grubelova as conductor or pianist around the world, including at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Zurich Opera, Vienna State Opera, La Scala in Milan, Passau, Baden-Baden, Frankfurt and Tokyo.