Born in Budapest in 1949; the conductor Adam Fischer studied in Budapest and Vienna with Hans Swarowsky and won the Guido Cantelli Competition in Milan in 1973. In 1978 he stepped in for a performance of “Fidelio” at the Bayerische Staatsoper. He held posts as general music director in Freiburg, Kassel, Mannheim and Budapest. In 1987 he founded the Österreichisch-Ungarische Haydn-Philharmonie and brought the Haydn Festspiele Eisenstadt into being; since 1998 he has been artistic director of the Danish Chamber Orchestra, in 2006 he founded the Budapester Wagner-Tage, which he directs artistically, and since 2015 he has been principal conductor of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, whose honorary conductor he is. In 2017 he was made an honorary member of the Wiener Staatsoper. He has recorded, among other things, all of Mozart’s symphonies, a complete Beethoven recording and, in 2022, the Brahms symphonies on Naxos; he was honoured with the BBC Music Magazine Award (2019), the International Classical Music Award (2022), the Wolff-Preis in Jerusalem and the Gold Medal in the Arts of the Kennedy Center.
Adam Fischer
Conductor
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