Published on Aug 1, 2016

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: October 5-6, 2016

Venue: Concert Hall of NCPA

Prices: 200, 350, 500, 650, 760, 880, 1080

Features: One of the world's best orchestras - Budapest Festival Orchestra will bring two night concerts with maestro Ivan Fischer at Concert Hall of NCPA in Beijing on Wednesday October 5 and Thursday October 6th, 2016.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Ivan Fischer
Ivan Fischer is founder and Music Director of the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Music Director of the Konzerthaus and the Konzerthausorchester in Berlin. Recently he has been also active as a composer: his works have been performed in the US, Holland, Belgium, Hungary, Germany and Austria. He also staged successful opera performances, recently a Mozart cycle in Budapest and New York.

The 30 year-old partnership with the Budapest Festival Orchestra has become one of the greatest success stories of classical music. Intense international touring and a series of acclaimed recordings for Philips Classics, later for Channel Classics have contributed to Iván Fischer's reputation as one of the world’s most visionary and successful orchestra leaders.

Both in Berlin and Budapest he has developed and introduced new types of concerts, 'cocoa-concerts' for young children, 'surprise' concerts where the programme is announced from the stage, 'public dress rehearsals' where he talks to the audience, open-air concerts attracting tens of thousands of people and 'staged concerts' combining concert and theatre. He has founded several festivals, including one composer marathons, the Budapest Mahlerfest which is also a forum for commissioning and presenting new compositions and the Bridging Europe Festival.

Budapest Festival Orchestra
Formed in 1983 by Iván Fischer and Zoltán Kocsis the Budapest Festival Orchestra was founded with musicians 'drawn from the cream of Hungary's younger players' (The Times, London). The aim, through intensive rehearsals and high musical standards, was to make the Orchestra’s initial three or four concerts per year significant events in Hungary's musical life, and to give Budapest a new symphony orchestra of international standing.

Between 1992 and 2000, slowly extending their work to a full season, the ensemble operated under the aegis of the Budapest Municipality and the new BFO Foundation, formed by fifteen Hungarian and multinational corporations and banks. From the 2000/2001 season onwards the orchestra has been operated by the BFO Foundation, which the Budapest City Council regularly supports under a contract renewable every five years. In 2003 the Ministry of Cultural Heritage declared the orchestra a national institution supported by the state.

The Festival Orchestra is now a vital part of Budapest's music life (usually performing to capacity audiences) and also a frequent and much appreciated guest at some of the world's most important centres of musical excellence. Appearances include Salzburg (Summer Festival), Vienna (Musikverein, Konzerthaus), Lucerne (Festival), Montreux, Zürich (Tonhalle), New York (Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall), Chicago, Los Angeles (Hollywood Bowl), San Francisco, Montreal, Tokyo (Suntory Hall), Hong-Kong, Paris (Théatre des Champs-Elysées), Berlin, Munich , Frankfurt (Alte Oper), London (BBC Proms Festival, Barbican Centre, Royal Festival Hall), Florence (Maggio Musicale), Rome (Accademia di Santa Cecilia), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Madrid, Athens, Copenhagen, Prague (Prague Spring Festival), Brussels (Flamish Festival) and Buenos Aires (Teatro Colon), among others.

Tickets for Ivan Fischer and Budapest Festival Orchestra Concert are Available now!