Turnovsky, Martin (1928– )

Czech conductor. He studied with Zncerl and Szell before his 1952 debut, with the Prague Symphony Orchestra. He was conductor of the Czech Army Symphony Orchestra 1955–60 and the Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra 1960–63; conductor at the Dresden Staatsoper 1967–68; music director of Norwegian Opera 1975–80 and the Bonn Opera 1979–83; and music director of the Prague Symphony Orchestra from 1992. He led the Cleveland Orchestra in 1968 and has guested elsewhere, with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1988 he conducted Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin with the Welsh National Opera and in 1993 Verdi's Otello and Un ballo in maschera/A Masked Ball with the Prague State Opera.