Iván Fischer
Iván Fischer studied piano, violin, and composition in Budapest before studying conducting with Hans Swarowsky and Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Vienna and Salzburg. Fischer is the founder and Chief Conductor of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and Honorary Conductor of Berlin’s Konzerthausorchester and Konzerthaus, where he was Chief Conductor between 2012 and 2018.
Since 2018 he has been the Vicenza Festival’s Artistic Director, and since 2021-2022 has been an Honorary Guest Conductor with the Concertgebouw Orchestra. He is a frequent guest with the Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic and other leading orchestras. He has conducted opera productions in the Wiener Staatsoper, London’s Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Opéra de Paris and others.
Fischer is the founder of Hungary’s Gustav Mahler Society and patron of the British Kodály Academy. In 2013 he became an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London.
