Janko Kastelic

Janko Kastelic (born 10 January 1969) is a Canadian–Slovenian conductor and music educator. From September 2008 to June 2011, he was music director of the Opera House of Maribor, Slovenia.

Biography Janko Kastelic was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and grew up in Toronto, Canada. He began his musical career as a boy soprano and accompanist at St. Michael's Choir School. From 1987 to 1991, Kastelic attended the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto, where he studied conducting, theory, composition, and piano. Aladdin, and Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne.

Kastelic has prepared works for the Klangbogen Festival Vienna and the Salzburger Festspiele, and has conducted the TU Orchester Wien, leading orchestra concerts that focused on French and Classical repertoire. He also led choruses in Moses und Aron by Arnold Schoenberg at the Vienna State Opera in March 2007.

Teaching

In September 2005, he was appointed as a tutor at the opera school of the Vienna State Opera.

SNG Maribor Janko Kastelic was General Music Director of the Maribor Opera House from September 2008 until June 2011. In September 2009, he conducted his first premiere, The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.