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Martin Majkut
Conductor

Martin Majkut

Bratislava, Slovakia

Martin Majkut was born in Bratislava, then Czechoslovakia.

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  • Rogue Valley Symphony since 2010
  • Two doctorates, Bratislava and Arizona
  • Fulbright scholar, 2003
  • Queens Symphony Orchestra, 2016–2025
  • Oregon Coast Music Festival since 2025
“I jokingly maintain that Rogue Valley has "more arts than it deserves."”

Upcoming events

Saturday, December 12 · 1:30 PMDec 12–13Rogue Valley Symphony Holiday PopsBratislava-born Martin Majkut, music director of the Rogue Valley Symphony since 2010, conducts the holiday programme with singer Jasmine Haber.Angus Bowmer Theatre · AshlandHeritageFriday, January 15 · 7:30 PMJan 15–17Rogue Valley Symphony Masterworks 3: Tchaikovsky's PathétiqueMartin Majkut's orchestra: Beethoven's Egmont Overture, Dvořák's Violin Concerto with Geneva Lewis, and Tchaikovsky's Sixth.SOU Music Recital Hall (Ashland) · Craterian Theater (Medford) · Grants Pass Performing Arts Center · Ashland / Medford / Grants PassHeritageFriday, February 19 · 7:30 PMFeb 19–21Rogue Valley Symphony Masterworks 4: Prokofiev, C.P.E. Bach, HaydnProkofiev's Classical Symphony, C.P.E. Bach's D-minor Flute Concerto with Marina Piccinini, Foote, and Haydn's Symphony No. 104.SOU Music Recital Hall (Ashland) · Craterian Theater (Medford) · Grants Pass Performing Arts Center · Ashland / Medford / Grants PassFriday, April 23 · 7:30 PMApr 23–25Rogue Valley Symphony Masterworks 5: Beethoven's Emperor and Nielsen's FifthJoyce Yang plays Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto; the program adds Walton's Spitfire Prelude and Nielsen's Symphony No. 5.SOU Music Recital Hall (Ashland) · Craterian Theater (Medford) · Grants Pass Performing Arts Center · Ashland / Medford / Grants Pass

He graduated from the State Conservatory and was assistant conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic while earning a Ph.D. in conducting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava.

He came to the US as a Fulbright scholar in 2003, earned a second doctorate at the University of Arizona in 2008, and studied further at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and the Wiener Meisterkurse in Vienna. He has led the Rogue Valley Symphony since 2010, and its budget has quadrupled under him. For its 50th anniversary the orchestra commissioned five new works, more than all of Oregon's other orchestras combined that season.

He was music director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra in New York from 2016 to 2025, and in 2025 took over the Oregon Coast Music Festival. This is the orchestra's 60th season and his 17th, with Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich in Ashland, Medford and Grants Pass.

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