READ THE STORY OF FRANZ LISZT CHAMBER ORCHESTRA.
\nThe Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra has been a permanent performer of the classical music scene\u2019s international elite for more than half a century; thus they are rightly known as one of the best representatives of the chamber music genre. The orchestra is led by P\u00e9ter Tfirst since 2016 and year after year performs in the most significant concert halls with first-class soloists, who delights in working with an orchestra due to their high degree of precision, versatility, and adaptability.<\/p>\n
The orchestra was founded in 1963 by former students of the Franz Liszt Music Academy. During this half a century \u2013 under the leadership of firstly, Frigyes S\u00e1ndor and subsequently J\u00e1nos Rolla \u2013 the orchestra has gained an international recognition: they have performed in more than fifty countries; including the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Sydney Opera House, the Teatro Col\u00f3n in Buenos Aires, and the Th\u00e9atre de la Ville in Paris.<\/p>\n
SUCCESSES OF RECENT YEARS
\nThe recent years abounded with outstanding concerts: the band performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Tonhalle in D\u00fcsseldorf, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Victora Hall in Geneva and the Heydar Aliyev in Baku, and also played at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and the Gstaad Menuhin Festival. They visited the world-famous National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and were invited to one of the most prestigious festivals of Asia: the Chine-Shanghai International Arts Festival.<\/p>\n
They opened the Liszt Year 2011 as well as of the Hungarian EU presidency at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid where the concert was visited by Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, and his wife Sofia as well. Besides the highly acclaimed German and Italian tours the orchestra gave a series of concerts in South America in 2013, and in Japan in 2014.<\/p>\n
The band recently played with such outstanding soloists as Sviatoslav Richter, Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern, Yehudi Menuhin, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Martha Argerich, Julia Fischer, Vadim Repin, Andr\u00e1s Schiff, Emmanuel Pahud, Vadim Gluzman, Denis Matsuev, Mischa Maisky, Maxim Vengerov, Ilya Gringolts, David Fray, Denis Bouriakov, J\u00falia Pusker, G\u00e1bor Boldoczki and G\u00e1bor Tak\u00e1cs-Nagy. In 2016, the Deutsche Grammophon released their album as a joint venture with \u00d6d\u00f6n R\u00e1cz, which was unanimously recognized internationally by the critics.<\/p>\n
ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP
\nSince 2016 the orchestra is led by concertmaster P\u00e9ter Tfirst, the orchestra continued to perform both at home and around the world with the usual high level of artistic interpretation and the unique Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra sound. At the beginning of 2020, both in Hungary and abroad, the news spread on Istv\u00e1n V\u00e1rdai, the world-famous cellist joining the orchestra as art director to form a new artistic concept and to help in professional training.
\nThe Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra is proud to be the national orchestra of Hungary, and to represent and promote Hungarian culture throughout the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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