IIn their third visit to Argentina, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, will open the 59º Season of the Mozarteum Argentino. Nowadays, this orchestra is considered one of the most important symphony orchestras of the world
The orchestra was formed in 1983 by
Iván Fischer and
Zoltán Kocsis, with musicians "drawn from the cream of Hungary's younger players," as The Times of London put it. Their aim, through intensive rehearsals and demanding the highest standards from musicians, was to make the orchestra's initially three or four concerts per year significant events in Hungary's musical life, and to give Budapest a new symphony orchestra of international standing.
Iván Fischer
The partnership between Iván Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra has proved to be one of the greatest success stories in the past three decades of classical music.
Fischer introduced several reforms, developed intense rehearsal methods for the musicians, emphasizing chamber music and creative work for each orchestra member.
As a guest conductor
Fischer works with the finest symphony orchestras of the world. He has been invited to the Berlin Philharmonic more than ten times, he leads every year two weeks of programs with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra where his last, highly acclaimed project was in April 2009 Beethoven's Symphony No. 8. Besides his contract with the NSO of Washington, he works regularly with leading US symphony orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra.
Iván Fischer studied piano, violin, cello and composition in Budapest, continuing his education in Vienna where he was in
Hans Swarowsky's conducting class. He also studied intensively early music and was for two years
Nikolaus Harnoncourt's assistant. Recently he has been also active as a composer: his works have been performed in Holland, Hungary, Germany and Austria.
József Lendvay
Born is 1974, Paganini and Liszt Prize awardee violinist József Lendvay studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music as a student of Miklós Szenthelyi, but frequented mastercouses of Yehudi Menuhin, Ida Haendel, Igor Oistrach, Jaap van Zweeden and Sándor Végh as well. This young, outstanding artist has performed with huge success in several countries outside Hungary, including Switzerland, Japan, the Nethlerlands and the United States. He has been invited to play with the Rotterdam Philharmonics, the Netherland Radio Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Orchestra and the Suisse Romande.
Dejan Lazsić
Pianist and composer Dejan Lazsić was born into a musical family in Zagreb, Croacia, and grew up in Salzburgo, Austria where he studied at the Mozarteum of that city. He has quickly established a reputation worldwide as “a brilliant pianist and a gifted musician full of ideas and able to project them persuasively” (Gramophone). The New York Times hailed his performance as “full of poetic, shapely phrasing and vivid dynamic effects that made this music sound fresh, spontaneous and impassioned”. After a highly successful Edinburgh Festival recital, The Scotsman wrote recently: "Dejan Lazic shines like a new star." As recitalist and soloist with orchestra Dejan Lazić has appeared at major venues in Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Australia, and has been invited to numerous international festivals.
