Hungarian conductor Gergely Madaras was named 2025 ‘Conductor of the Year’ at the Bartok Radio Awards. He served as Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège from 2019-2025 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).
The 2025/26 season includes high-profile symphonic debuts with the Staatskapelle Dresden, NDR Elbphilharmonie-Orchester, Dresdner Philharmoniker, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Mulhouse, Tampere, Trondheim Symphony Orchestras as well as Welsh National Opera (Tosca). He returns to the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Luxembourg, Oslo, Turku and Warsaw Philharmonics, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and BBC NOW as well as Hungarian State Opera and a special project with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, celebrating the 100th birthday of György Kurtág.
Recent symphonic highlights include performances with the Oslo Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Hungarian National Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Hallé Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Jewish World Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Sao Paulo State Symphony and
the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. (Please click on a separate tab above for the full list of conducted orchestras!)
Gergely was the inaugural Sir Charles Mackerras Fellow at the English National Opera, that culminated in his debut with the company. In recent seasons he has conducted critically acclaimed productions at the Dutch National Opera, Grand Théàtre de Genève, La Monnaie and Hungarian State Opera.
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 Noemi Gyori and their two daughters.
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