Zoltán Peskó

Zoltán Peskó (* February 15, 1937 in Budapest) is a native of Hungary conductor.

Originally from a Lutheran church musician family Zoltán Peskó completed his studies in his hometown and worked as a conductor and composer of film and theater music at the Hungarian National Theatre and television. In January 1964, he left Hungary, and attended master classes in Italy and Switzerland. At the Roman Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, he was a composition pupil of Goffredo Petrassi, in the conducting of Franco Ferrara, after which he studied in Basel in 1965 with Pierre Boulez. Between 1966 and 1973 he worked at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and held a teaching position at the Ankara State Conservatory of Music and Performing Arts.

His debut in 1970 at La Scala ( where he conducted the same year " Ulysses " by Dallapiccola, the " Fiery Angel" by Prokofiev and Mozart's " finta " ) marked the beginning of an international career. Numerous guest conductor Peskó throughout Europe, South America, in the former Soviet Union and the United States. In 1973 he became chief conductor of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, three years later, he took the same position at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, from 1978 to 1983, he conducted the orchestra of the Italian Radio RAI in Milan. Between 1977 and 1980 he restored the first ( unfinished ) opera " Salammbô " by Modest Mussorgsky, which premiered in November 1980 in Milan and was then played in many European cities. From 1995 until August 1999 he served as General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, after which he was between 2001-2005 Music Director of the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra and the Lisbon Sao Carlos Opera House. Since 2000 he leads the master class for young conductors of the Bartók Festival of Szombathely, where he will conduct the final concert in 2007 with the Hungarian National Philharmonic and 2008 teach again.

Regularly Peskó is invited to the major European music festivals and is in the music capitals of Europe a welcome guest. His activities as a concert and opera conductor covers the entire spectrum from the Renaissance to contemporary avant-garde. The unusual versatility of the conductor is documented in numerous radio and CD recordings. In August 1993, he was awarded the German Record Critics' Award.

• Conductor
• Artist ( New Music )
• Hungarian
• Born in 1937
• Man