Mark Fitz-Gerald

Conductor Mark Fitz-Gerald is recognized for dual specialties: he is a noted interpreter of the music of Shostakovich, and he is an expert in the restoration and performance of scores for silent films. Those specialties have overlapped at times, as he has prepared and performed two major Shostakovich film scores of the 1920s. Recently, Fitz-Gerald has reconstructed and conducted other film scores, including that for the Douglas Fairbanks vehicle The Thief of Bagdad (1924); he recorded that score in 2019 with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2025, Fitz-Gerald led the Malmö Opera Chorus and Orchestra on additional Shostakovich reconstructions The Human Comedy, The Nose, and the Shot.