Andras
LigetiMusic Director Hungarian Symphony Orchestra
Biography Andras Ligeti,
Music Director of the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra in since 1997,has
worked with all the major orchestras in Hungary as well as the leading
orchestras in Dresden, Sapporo, Nagoya, Dortmund, Stuttgart, Oslo,
Bergen, Taipei, Madrid and Geneva. He has conducted the the Radio
Orchestra of Berlin, the Berlin Symphony, the Nouvelle Orchestre de
Paris, the BBC Orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, the Webern
Ensemble in Vienna, the Santa Cecilia of Rome, the Philharmonic of Seoul
, the Japanese Chamber Orchestra and Festival Orchestra of Toronto,
The Hungarian Symphony Orchestra’ s ninth Music Director, he also the
Artistic Director of he has given fifteen concerts a year as the
Philharmonic Orchestra of Dortmund, Germany, where he has conducted 15
concerts each season since 1997. In December 1998 he premiered Bizet's
Carmen in the UK with Opera North and in February 1999 was invited to
conduct The Damnation of Faust by Berlioz at Australia’s Festival of
Perth. Other recent appearances include the Ulster Orchestra of
Belfast, Malaysian Symphony Orchestra, Kanazawa Orchestra of Japan,
Bratislava Symphony Orchestra and Tapei Symphony Orchestra. Andreas Ligeti's work has been
acknowledged by the Liszt and Bartók-Pastory prizes. On Naxos, Mr. Ligeti
has worked with pianist Jeno Jandó in producing volumes of the label's
well-known and critically acclaimed complete series of the Mozart piano
concertos as well as concertos by Grieg, Brahms, Schumann, Mendelssohn (with
Benjamin Frith), Liszt (with Joseph Banowetz), and Bartok. His recording of
Liszt's monumental Faust Symphony on Naxos was also hailed by the critics.
Andras Ligeti was born in 1953 in Pecs,
Hungary and studied the violin in his home city. In 1970, became a student
of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, graduating in 1977. He first began
study in conducting at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 1974 and
graduated in 1979 as a student of Andras Korodi. Between 1977 and 1985 he
was both Concert Master and Conductor of the Hungarian State Opera.
Ligeti is a former member of the Eder
String Quartet and Concert Master of the Budapest Chamber Orchestra. He has
also taught the violin and the art of conducting at the Franz Liszt Academy
of Music. In 1975 he won First Prize at the Leo Weiner International
Competition and in 1980 First Prize at the Sonata Competition in Bloomington
USA. In 1980 he studied at the College of Music of Vienna in Karl
Oesterreicher's conductor group, as a Solti scholar.
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