Adam Fischer

Ádám Fischer Born In Budapest On September 9 1949 Is A Hungarian Conductor Of Jewish Family Origin. He Is The General Music Director Of The Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra With Which He Has Recorded The Complete Haydn Symphonies For The Nimbus Label The First Digital Recording Of The Cycle. He Is Also Music Director Of The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra And Chief Conductor Of The Danish National Chamber Orchestra. He Is An Elder Brother Of The Conductor Ivan Fischer. The Two Belonged To The Children's Choir Of Budapest National Opera House And Sang As Two Of The Three Boys In Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. Ádám Fischer Studied Piano And Composition At The Bartok Conservatory In Budapest And Conducting With Hans Swarowsky In Vienna. He Won First Prize In The Milan Guido Cantelli Competition. His Career Began With Opera Conducting In Munich Freiburg And Other German Cities. In 1982 He Made His Paris Opéra Debut Leading Der Rosenkavalier And In 1986 He Made His Debut At La Scala Milan Leading Die Zauberflöte. Between 1987 And 1992 He Was The General Music Director In Kassel. He Has Led Symphonic Concerts Since The Mid-1970s With Such Orchestras As The Helsinki Philharmonic The Vienna Philharmonic Vienna Symphony Orchestra Orchestre De Paris The London Philharmonic The Philharmonia The Royal Philharmonic The Dresden Philharmonic The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra The Tonhalle Orchestra Of Zurich The Boston Symphony Orchestra And The Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He Has Appeared The New York Mostly Mozart Festival Four Times. He Began A Long Collaboration With The Vienna State Opera In 1973 And Also Has Worked Regularly With The Royal Opera House The Metropolitan Opera And Elsewhere. In 1987 Adam Fischer Established The Austrian-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra And Started The Haydn Festival In The Austrian Eisenstadt. In July 1989 Fischer Started The First Gustav Mahler Festivals In Kassel And He Directed As An Artistic Director. In 1998 Fischer Was Appointed Chief Conductor Of The Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Fischer Has Recorded The Complete Opere Serie By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart With This Orchestra And Is Currently Recording Mozart's Complete Symphonies. Adam Fischer Has Recorded For Nimbus CBS EMI Hungaroton And Delta. In 1982 He Won The Grand Prix Du Disque. read less