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Born in Budapest, where he began his musical studies on trumpet, piano and
cello.
Graduated as conductor major at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music
in Ervin Lukács’s class; later specialized with László Somogyi and
Kurt Masur in Weimar.
Received the Leonard Bernstein Scholarship and participated
in Franco Ferrara's master-classes at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena
in.
He won the Georg Solti Scholarship and took part in the fellowship
program of the Tanglewood Music Festival where he worked with Leonard
Bernstein,
Seiji Ozawa, Gennadij Rozhdestvenskij and Gustav Meier.
In 1986 he
won
third price as well as the Audience Prize at the 5th International
Conductors Competition organized by the Hungarian Television.
The same year he was also awarded the First Prize at the International Toscanini
Competition held in Parma.
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1986
– 1992 First Guest Conductor of the RAI Symphony Orchestra in Turin
1989 –
1992 First Guest Conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
1990 – 1996
First Guest Conductor of the Royal Symphony Orchestra in Seville
1993 – 1995
First Guest Conductor of the Chamber Orchestra and Choir Rome
2001 – 2002 General
Music and Artistic Director of the Budapest State Opera
2002 – 2004 First
Guest Conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (Korea)
2005 – Permanent Guest Conductor of the Hamburg State Opera
2008 – 2010 Permanent Guest Conductor of the Hungarian State Opera
2011 – General Music and Artistic Director of the Hungarian State Opera and
Chairman- Conductor of the Budapest Philharmonic Society
OPERA CONDUCTOR
| Argentina |
Buenos Aires, Teatro Colón |
G. Verdi: Macbeth (1998)
A. Boito: Mefistofele (1999)
G. Puccini: Manon Lescaut (2004)
Janacek: Katja Kabanova (2010) |
| Brasilia |
Theatro Municipal de Sao Paulo |
G.
Verdi: Il Trovatore (2001) |
| Germany |
Würtenbergische
Staatstheater Stuttgart |
G. Verdi:
Macbeth (1996, 1997)
G. Puccini: Turandot (1997, 1998) |
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Hamburgische Staatsoper |
P. Csajkovszkij:
Pique Dama (2005)
G. Puccini: Tosca (2006, 2008)
L. Janacek: Jenufa (2006, 2007)
G. Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (2007)
G. Verdi: Macbeth (2009)
G. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
(2008)
W.A.
Mozart: Don Giovanni (2010)
G. Puccini: La Boheme (2010) |
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Nationaltheater Mannheim
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G. Verdi:
Rigoletto (2006) |
| Hungary |
Hungarian State Opera |
G. Verdi:
La Traviata (1988)
W. A. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (1994)
G. Puccini: Manon Lescaut (2008)
G. Puccini: Tosca (2008)
R.Wagner: Tannhäuser (2008,
2009)
G. Puccini: Turandot (2010)
G. Puccini: La boheme (2010)
P. Tschaikowsky: Pique Dama (2011)
G. Verdi: Macbeth (2011)
G. Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
(2011)
G. Verdi: Rigoletto (2011)
G. Verdi: Aida (2011)
R.Wagner: Das
Rheingold (2012) |
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Jewish Summer Festival Budapest |
C. Saint-Saëns:
Samson und Dalila (2006) |
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Palace of
Arts
Béla Bartók National
Concerthall
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W. A. Mozart:
Die Zauberflöte (2005)
W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni (2006) |
| Italy |
Teatro dell’Opera
di Roma |
G. Verdi:
Macbeth (1995)
U. Giordano: Andrea Chénier (1996) |
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Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova
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G. Puccini:
Turandot (1996) |
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Arena di
Verona |
J.
Strauß: Der Fledermaus
(1996, 1997) |
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Teatro Lirico „G. Verdi” di Triest |
G. Verdi:
Rigoletto (1996) |
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Teatro Comunale
di Bologna |
W. A. Mozart:
Figaros Hochteit (1997) |
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Teatro Regio
di Parma
| G.
Verdi: La forza
del destino (2002) |
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Teatro La
Fenice di Venezia |
G. Verdi:
Nabucco (2004) |
| USA |
Chicago Lyric
Opera |
A. Boito:
Mefistofele (1998) |
CONCERT CONDUCTOR
Symphonic conducting has included, among others, the Berlin Radio Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the RTL Orchestra in Luxembourg, the Royal Philharmonics of Flanders, the Orchestra Gulbenkian in Lisbon, the Symphony Orchestra of Chile, the RAI Orchestra in Milan, the ORT in Florence the Orchestra Toscanini in Parma, Ljubljana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hungarian Radio Orchestra, the Budapest State Orchestra, the Beograd Philharmonic Orchestra, the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Sophia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Aukland Philharmonic Orchestra in New Zealand, the Taipei City Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of the Italian Radio, Royal Symphony Orchestra in Seville, the Verdi Orchestra of Milan, the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and with the Orchestra of the Arena di Verona.
ARTISTS CONDUCTED
Marcello Alvarez, Fabio Armiliato, Roberto Aronica, Boris Belkin, Mario Brunello, Renato Bruson, Bruno Canino, Ray Charles, Carlo Colombara, Carlo Cossutta, Michele Crider, Alberto Cupido, José Cura, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Daniella Dessi, Mariella Devia, Robert Dean Smith, Thomas Demenga, Enrico Dindo, Augustin Dumay, Phillippe Entremont, Norma Fantini, Franco Farina, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Christina Gallardo-Domas, Lucio Gallo, Paolo Gavanelli, Franz Grundheber, Carlo Guelfi, Maria Guleghina, Sumi Jo, Zoltán Kocsis, Ildikó Komlósi, Kolos Kováts, Gidon Kremer, Sergei Leiferkus, Ambrogio Maestri, Alessandra Marc, Richard Margison, Nicola Martinucci, Éva Marton, Aprile Millo, Elena Moşuc, Viktoria Mullova, Leo Nucci, Uto Ughi, Francesca Patane, László Polgár, Giacomo Prestia, Dezső Ránki, Samuel Ramey, Vadim Repin, Sylvia Sass, Gabriele Schnaut, Luciana Serra, Roberto Servile, Grigorij Sokolov, Sergei Stadler, Maria Tipo, Alan Titus, Ilona Tokody, Carol Vaness und Lylia Zilberstein etc.