Matin Majkut (@mmaestrissimo) is a world class conductor and human being. He’s lived through a revolution, has two PhDs, can sing, play piano and inspires orchestras to deliver exciting, polished and powerful performances. He’s the Music Director of the Rogue Valley Symphony in Ashland, Oregon, and the Queens Symphony Orchestra in New York. 

Martin was born and brought up in Bratislava  Czechoslovakia now known as Slovakia where he graduated from the state conservatory there.

He served as the assistant conductor of the Slovak philharmonic while he was earning his PhD in conducting at the academy of performing arts. While studying there he also worked with the Slovak Philharmonic, the Slavic Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Slavic State Philharmonic and the Slavic Sinfonietta. He gained a wealth of experience in Europe before coming to the States. In 2003 he came on a Fulbright scholarship where worked on his doctorate of musical arts at the University of Arizona in Tucson, his second doctorate by the way. 

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