BIOGRAPHY

Croatian/American conductor Zvonimir Hačko serves as the Artistic & Music Director of the International Centre for Contemporary Music (ICCM) in London, and Music Director of Oregon Music Festival (Portland, Oregon). A conductor with a thriving international career, Hačko has held various Music Directorships with orchestras in Europe and the United States. He currently divides his time between the two subscription seasons and continues active guest conducting work with ensembles in the USA, United Kingdom, European Union, South America and Asia.

Born and raised in former Yugoslavia, he went to the United States to complete advanced degrees in conducting at the University of Washington (M.Mus.) and Indiana University, Bloomington (DMA). Since the late 1980’s he has maintained an active international conducting schedule leading such orchestras as Haifa Symphony, Symphony Orchestra of Brazilian National Theater, the Philharmonia, Tbilisi Symphony, Symphony Orchestra of Serbian Radio-Television, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Istanbul Chamber Orchestra, State of Mexico Symphony, Symphony Orchestra of Croatian Radio-Television, Poznan Philharmonic (Poland), Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana (Italy), Sacramento Philharmonic, and many others. His multicultural background and experience have contributed to his in-depth knowledge of the European classical tradition and a keen interest in contemporary music. As a proponent of new music, Hačko has been instrumental in securing numerous new commissions from dozens of contemporary composers and has given world and national premieres of the works of Krzysztof Penderecki, Pēteris Vasks, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Arvo Pärt, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Jennifer Higdon, Henryk Górecki, John Tavener, Witold Lutosławski, John Adams, Giya Kancheli, and many others.

Hačko maintains an ambitious recording schedule. His current recording projects include a Bohuslav Martinů Series with Budapest Symphony Orchestra; a recording of New Polish School (works by Polish contemporary composers, with various orchestras including London Sinfonietta and London Symphony Orchestra); Best of Lutoslawski, vol. 1 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Best of Lutoslawski, vol. 2 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra; the album Music for Two featuring works for double orchestra (Bohuslav Martinů, Béla Bartók, and Hanna Kulenty) with the Orchestra of St. Luke's (NY); and Beethoven, Missa Solemnis (premiere recording of the Bärenreiter's  Urtext Edition) with the New Amsterdam Sinfonia. Hačko records for Naxos, Signum and Supraphon.

Future concert engagements include work with English Chamber Orchestra, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Sinfonia Varsovia, Roma Sinfonietta,  Oratorio Society of New York, New Amsterdam Sinfonia, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, and the Royal Scottish National Symphony.
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