Hungarian conductor Gergely Madaras is renowned for his “convincingly married energy and expressiveness, precision and passion” on the podium and was as recently named ‘Conductor of the Year’ at the Bartók Radio Awards.
His 26/27 season features debuts with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Hannover, SWR Symphonieorchester, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra among others. He returns to Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, Norwegian Radio, Symphoniker Hamburg, Hungarian State Opera and Orchestre National de Mulhouse – as well as working with NFM Wroclaw in a programme that celebrates both the Beethoven and Dohnanyi anniversaries, and a contemporary project with WDR Symphony Orchestra as part of the Witten Festival.
Recent symphonic highlights include performances with the Oslo, Luxembourg and Hong Kong Philharmonics, Dresden Staatskapelle, Budapest Festival Orchestra, BBC Symphony and Philharmonic, Hallé, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Tonhalle Zürich, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Sao Paulo State Symphony and with Il Pomo d’Oro and Joyce DiDonato at the Concertgebouw Hall, as part of the ‘EDEN’ tour. (Click HERE for the full list of conducted orchestras!)
Gergely was the inaugural Sir Charles Mackerras Fellow at the English National Opera. In recent seasons he has conducted critically acclaimed productions at the Welsh National Opera, Dutch National Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, La Monnaie and Hungarian State Opera.
Gergely served as Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège from 2019-25, where his successful tenure was recently marked by him being named an Honorary Citizen of the City. Previously, he served as Music Director of Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne (2013-19) and Chief Conductor of Savaria Symphony Orchestra (2014-2020).
Born in Budapest in 1984, Gergely first began studying folk music with the last generation of authentic Hungarian Gipsy and peasant musicians at the age of five. He then went on to study classical flute, violin and composition, graduating from the flute faculty of the Liszt Academy in Budapest, as well as the conducting faculty of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where he studied with Mark Stringer.
Gergely resides in London with his wife, the flutist Noémi Győri and their two daughters.
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