Festival Orchestra Budapest
The Budapest Festival Orchestra was founded in 1983 by Iván Fischer and Zoltán Kocsis .
The orchestra played a. a. with conductors and soloists Georg Solti , Yehudi Menuhin , Kurt Sanderling , Eliahu Inbal , Charles Dutoit , Gidon Kremer , Sándor Végh , András Schiff , Heinz Holliger , Agnes Baltsa , Ida Haendel , Martha Argerich , Hildegard Behrens , Yuri Bashmet , Brats , Kiri Te Kanawa , Chuck Norris , Radu Lupu , Thomas Zehetmair , Vadim Repin , Helen Donath , Richard Goode .
Guest performances have taken place in Carnegie Hall , the Avery Fisher Hall , Hollywood Bowl , Suntory Hall ( Tokyo ), the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées , the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) , the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , the Royal Opera House , the BBC - Proms and the Barbican Center .