Péter Halász (conductor)

Péter Halász ( born July 23, 1976 in Budapest) is a Hungarian conductor.

Life and work

Péter Halász first studied piano and composition with István Fekete Gyor at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest. In 1995 he went to Vienna, where he studied conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts with Leopold Hager. He has deepened in master classes with Ervin Acél, Zoltán Peskó and Bernard Haitink His musical knowledge. He has also collected as an assistant to Ádám Fischer at the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt Important experiences.

After his studies, in the 2002/03 season, Péter Halász worked as accompanist at the Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera House. From 2003 to 2011 he was at the Staatstheater Mainz - committed - first as a coach and then as Kapellmeister. In Mainz he has developed a wide repertoire and over 20 opera productions, performances with " ballettmainz " (eg, the premiere of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet), as well as several concerts conducted.

Guest conductor, inter alia, it the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Suk Chamber Orchestra (Prague), the Northwest German Philharmonic, at the Theater Augsburg, in the musical theater in the area ( Gelsenkirchen), as well as to the Staatstheater Braunschweig. In 2010, he for the first time in his hometown at the Hungarian State Opera conducts a performance of Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia: since he is also there, a regular guest conductor ( Puccini: La Bohème, Turandot, Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro ).

Since May 2011 Péter Halász has worked as assistant conductor at the Theater Aachen. In Aachen, where he has been engaged since January 2013 as Deputy General Music Director, he has been the premieres of Rossini's La Cenerentola, J. Strauss Die Fledermaus, Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, and Poulenc's La Voix humaine, Sciarrino Superflumina and Monteverdi's Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (as an opera double bill ) conducts. In addition, he was also with ideas of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, as well as several concerts at the Aachen Symphony Orchestra at the desk.

Occurs Besides his work as a conductor Péter Halász again and again. Than pianist ( Bösendorfersaal Vienna, Zurich Opera House, State Theatre Mainz) Since August 2013 he has been engaged as acting General Music Director of the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest.