Conductor. Vocal Coach. Composer.

Positions & Training

  • Directed and managed the theatre music ensemble through the challenging years of the pandemic and post-pandemic period
  • Navigated through modest resources towards creating a stable and high-performing ensemble of soloists, orchestra and choir
  • Initiated and curated a diverse repertoire adaptable for the skill levels within the ensemble.
  • Donizetti: Maria Stuarda (Hungarian premiere), Verdi: Il Corsaro (Hungarian premiere), Weber: Der Freischütz Puccini: La Boheme, Mozart: Don Giovanni, Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Johnson: Four Note Opera, Strauss: Die Fledermaus
  • Conducted and vice-managed the theatre ensemble during a three year old period, focusing mainly on the classic operetta and introducing French operetta into the repertoire.
  • Offenbach: Barbe-Bleue, Kálmán: The Csárdás Princess, Kálmán: Gräfin Mariza, Lustig: Semmelweis, Lehár: Die lustige Witwe
  • Offenbach: La belle Helene, Huszka: Erzsébet
  • Supervising and managing the musical branch of a pan-artistic festival with more than 100K visitors yearly
  • Verdi: Requiem, Verdi Opera Gala, Mozart: Requiem, Bartók: Concerto, Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, Liederabend, Chamber Concerts

Projects

For the past 20 years I have regularly recorded film music for German, Spanish, Italian, American, English and Hungarian productions. The score for the BBC series Mozart: rise of a Genius, for which I was the conductor and music director, got a nomination for the 2025 BAFTA award in the category “best music”.

Since 2007 I lead a successful production named Operabeavató, or OperaLab as we call it in English – an educational production introducing the spectators to the world of opera through the best available soloists and in-depth, yet accessible musical analysis. Since 2020 together with Hungarian National Orchestra I introduce the spectators to the symphonic music in the same way under the name of Music Mania. Lately we also introduced Lieder-focused programs with Schubert’s Die Schöne Mullerin.

In the interview series “Among the Sounds“, the podcast features Hungarian contemporary composers from 25 to 100 years old, who are introduced to the listeners through interviews and discussions about their oeuvre, music and work, presenting a cross-section of the Hungarian composer scene

Composition

My main activity besides theatre is composing. The list of my performed works includes incidental music for theatre and film, concert pieces, choral pieces, chamber music and two operas.

Theatres

Hungarian State Opera, Cluj Hungarian Opera, MÜPA – Palace of Arts Budapest, Budapest Operetta Theatre, Szeged National Theatre, Pécs National Theatre, Miskolc National Theatre, Győr National Theatre, Kaposvár Csiky Gergely Theatre, Budapest Marionette Theatre, Katona József Theatre, Vígszínház, Thália Theatre, Bárka Theatre, Radnóti Theatre

Orchestras

Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Concerto Budapest, Budafok Dohnányi Orchestra, Óbuda Danubia Orchestra, MÁV Orchestra, Savaria Symphony Orchestra, Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra, Szeged Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Society Orchestra, Hungarian Studio Orchestra, Alba Regia Orchestra

Singers

René Barbera, Bruno de Simone, Pietro Spagnoli, Paolo Fanale, Alexey Bogdanchikov, Jessica Pratt, Francesco Demuro, Alexey Markov and numerous top tier Hungarian classical singers