Zsolt Nagy - conductor

ZSOLT NAGY (1957, Gyula, Hungary) studied conducting at the Budapest Academy of Music with Istvan Parkai. He was active participant at the Bartok Seminar and Festival with Peter Eotvos and acquired Soros Foundation Fellowship in Milano and Paris. Since 1990 he was assistent of Peter Eötvös at Institute for New Music of the Music Academy in Karlsruhe, guest professor of the International Eötvös Institute Stuttgart and Cologne. He obtained a special award for excellence in performing new israeli music and since 1999 he is chief conductor and artistic adviser of the Israel Contemporary Players. In 2002 he was appointed a professor of conducting at the Paris Conservatory. He was Artistic Director of the masterclasses for conductors organized by the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava and of the Masterclass for Young Conductors for New Music (held at the Music Centre in Jerusalem). He cooperated with BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra di Santa Cecilia Roma, RAI Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble United Berlin.

Melos-Ethos 2003

7. 11. 2003 o 19.30 h Friday