Marko was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of Orchestra Victoria beginning with season 2008/09. He again returned to Australia/New Zealand for concert tours 2010 and 2011. Further concerts are scheduled with Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, with the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra dell’Arena di Verona and the Munich Rundfunkorchester.
Marko studied piano and conducting with Professor Anton Nanut at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. At the same time, he was a student of Professor Otmar Suitner at the Vienna Academy of Music, from which he graduated in 1989.
From 1991 to 2003, he was Musical Director of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra. He has conducted orchestras including the Wiener Symphoniker, Münchner and Bremen Philharmoniker, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne and Monterey Symphony Orchestras, the Orchestra Sinfonica “Giuseppe Verdi” Milan on tour and the opera orchestras of Cagliari and Stockholm (with Nina Stemme).
From 2003 to 2006, he was Music Director and Chief Conductor of both the Symphony Orchestra and the Opera in Basel, where he conducted new productions of Tannhäuser, La Traviata, Der Freischütz, Boris Godunov, Tristan und Isolde, Rigoletto and Don Giovanni, among others. In addition, he made multiple recordings with the Basel Symphony Orchestra.
On a major New Zealand/Australian tour in the summer 2007, he conducted concerts with the Auckland Philharmonia, the Orchestra Victoria and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Marko is designated Music Director of the Orchèstre Philharmonique de Strasbourg.