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Ivan Fischer and Budapest Festival Orchestra Concert
Published on Jan 17, 2014
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Genre: NCPA
Dates: Sunday, March 9, 2014
Venue: Concert Hall of NCPA
Prices: 280, 480, 600, 780, 900, 1080, 1280
Features: Ivan Fischer is founder and Music Director of the Budapest Festival Orchestra. On March 9th, the Hungarian famous conductor Ivan Fischer and Budapest Festival Orchestra will perform at Concert Hall of NCPA.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION
Ivan Fischer is a Hungarian conductor and composer. Born in Budapest into a Jewish musical family, Fischer initially studied piano, violin, cello and composition in Budapest. He moved later to Vienna to study conducting with Hans Swarowsky at the University of Music and Performing Arts, where he also studied cello and early music, studying and working as assistant to Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
In 1976, Fischer won the Rupert Foundation conducting competition in London. He began thereafter to guest-conduct such British orchestras as the BBC Symphony and the London Symphony Orchestra, with whom he conducted a world tour in 1982. His US conducting debut was with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 1983.
In the USA, Fischer held the position of Principal Guest Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for seven years. In 2006, he became Principal Guest Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington. In April 2007, Fischer was named the principal conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.), after Leonard Slatkin stepped down as music director in 2008. He held the title for 2 years. In February 2011, he was named Music Director of the Konzerthaus Berlin and Principal Conductor of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, effective with the 2012-2013 season, with an initial contract of 3 years.
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Fischer returned to Hungary in 1983 to found the Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO), which initially was intended for a limited number of concerts a year on a part-time basis. The BFO became a permanent institution in 1992, with a schedule of about 30 weeks of performing a year. With the BFO, he has incorporated unorthodox ideas into practice, including allowing individual symphony musicians to contribute to concert programming, as in the "cocoa-concerts" for young children. Other series include the Titok-koncert ("bag of surprise") concert series where the programme is not announced, "one forint concerts" where he talks to the audience, open-air concerts in Budapest attracting tens of thousands of people, as well as concert opera performances. Fischer has founded several festivals, including a summer festival in Budapest on baroque music and the Budapest Mahlerfest which is also a forum for commissioning and presenting new music works. In addition, there is an annual competition from within the orchestra for soloist opportunities in concert. Fischer and the BFO have recorded commercially for Philips Classics and Channel Classics Records.
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BOOKING INFORMATION
Booking From: Friday, Jan 17, 2014
Booking Until: Thursday, Mar 06, 2014
Show Time: Mar 09, 2014 / 7:30pm
Running Time: 1 hours 50 minutes
TICKET PRICES
- 280
- 480
- 600
- 780
- 900
- 1080
- 1280
Prices are in RMB (“×” Sold Tickets), Include Booking Fees