György Mészáros

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György Mészáros (* 1984 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian conductor and pianist .

Life

Mészáros was born in Budapest in 1984 into a family of musicians. Both parents play as orchestral musicians at the Budapest State Opera , his mother as an oboist , his father as a horn player . Mészáros saw his first opera, Die Zauberflöte by Mozart, as a child . He started playing the piano at the age of 6, but conducting fascinated him even then. Wagner operas were like children's fairy tales for him and when he was 14 years old he traveled with his parents to the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth for the first time .

He began his studies in Budapest, initially with piano and music theory at the Bartók Béla Konzervatórium of the Franz Liszt Music Academy . There he met Zsuzsanna Reibach , his current wife. In 2003, both went to Vienna for further studies , where Mészáros studied piano with Martin Hughes at the University of Music and Performing Arts . From 2005 he studied conducting at the Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna under Georg Mark . During his studies, Mészáros also attended master classes for conductors, in Budapest with Yuri Simonov, and in Siena with Gianluigi Gelmetti . He finished his studies in 2010, his diploma concert was Bruckner's Wagner Symphony . Reibach completed her studies in Vienna with a diploma as concert organist and harpsichordist .

Act

In 2010 Mészáros came to the Bayreuth Festival as a musical assistant and accompanist for the children's opera. In the same year Mészáros first became solo coach and assistant to the general music director at the Braunschweig State Theater , where he conducted, among others, Die Fledermaus , A Midsummer Night's Dream , Luisa Miller and The Magic Flute . In 2011 Mészáros became guest conductor at the Budapest State Opera, where he conducted Don Pasquale and Don Giovanni . In 2012, the opera director of the Braunschweiger Theater, Jens Neundorff von Enzberg, moved to the Regensburg Theater as artistic director , whereupon Mészáros succeeded him as second conductor . There Mészáros directed the premieres of Lincke's wife Luna and Handel's Saul . He made his debut as a guest conductor with the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra in 2013. In 2015 Mészáros ended his engagement in Regensburg and in the 2015/2016 season he became first conductor and deputy general music director at the Landestheater Detmold . There he directed the premieres of Die Fledermaus , Rigoletto , Die Csárdásfürstin , Hansel and Gretel , Così fan tutte , The cousin from Dingsda , Martha , and Der Wildschütz . Among the operas he has conducted are Aida , La Boheme , Madama Butterfly , Elektra , Faust , The Flying Dutchman , The Mastersingers of Nuremberg , Tosca and Zar and Zimmermann .

The married couple Reibach and Mészáros appear together in concert, Reibach as a soloist on the harpsichord or organ and Mészáros as musical director, including in an oratorio concert with works by Anton Bruckner in 2018 and in the festival concert on German unity with the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra in 2019.

Mészáros teaches at the Detmold University of Music , where he teaches the “Master's course in singing” and “Conducting and orchestral conducting”. He works with amateur orchestras such as the Junge Sinfoniker in Bielefeld and since 2017 with the Detmold Orchestra Society. Under his direction, the orchestra company played in the Detmold Konzerthaus for the first time in 2019, for which Mészáros was able to win the soprano Megan Marie Hart as a soloist.

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Detlef Obens: The director György Mészáros in the opera magazine portrait. In: opernmagazin.de. January 28, 2020, archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Annette Schäfer: A conversation with the first conductor of the State Theater Detmold György Mészáros | culture info lip. In: kulturinfo-lippe.de. December 15, 2015, archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  3. ^ György Mészáros - Philharmonie Südwestfalen - Landesorchester NRW, Hilchenbach. In: philsw.de. Archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  4. ^ Braunschweig State Theater - Regensburg Music Theater. Archived from the original on February 23, 2011 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  5. ↑ OperaDigiTár - Digitar, előadás. Archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 (Hungarian).
  6. ↑ Gábor Bóka: Viva la libertà! February 1, 2013, archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 (Hungarian): "Bemutatkozott még a zenekar élén Mészáros György, akinek vezénylése igazodott az előadás többi részéhez, vagyis energikus, felszabadult, élvezetes volt."
  7. ^ Theater Regensburg: employees. Archived from the original on September 20, 2012 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Stefan Rimek: A tightrope walk when flying to the moon. October 28, 2013, archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 : "This also applies to the choir rehearsed by Alistair Lilley and to the orchestra, which, under the direction of György Mészaros, took the score with a lot of esprit and staged the arcs of tension with sensitivity."
  9. ↑ Stefan Rimek: "Saul" far from boredom. April 29, 2015, archived from the original on February 4, 2020 ; accessed on February 4, 2020 : "Alistair Lilley has rehearsed the choirs excellently and the orchestra, under the direction of György Mészáros, demonstrates the joy of playing and that it can interpret the figured bass with harpsichord and arch lute in the secco recitatives."
  10. ^ György Mészáros, Conductor - Operabase. In: operabase.com. Archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Landestheater shows a brilliant premiere of the operetta “Die Fledermaus”. In: Lippische Landes-Zeitung. November 1, 2015, archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Ilse Franz-Nevermann: Audience celebrates the premiere of the opera "Rigoletto". October 31, 2016, archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  13. ^ Ilse Franz-Nevermann: The audience celebrates "Die Csárdásfürstin" in the State Theater. October 31, 2016, archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Sven Koch: "Hansel and Gretel" celebrates its premiere in the Detmold State Theater. October 19, 2017, accessed on February 3, 2020 : "Director Guta GN Rau lovingly stages the fairy tale opera in a classical manner, accompanied by a wonderfully diverse composition at a very good musical level under the direction of György Mészáros Engelbert Humperdinck."
  15. ↑ Jan Ochalski: Così fan tutte - parallel stories . June 11, 2018, archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 : “And the music. She - under the direction of György Mészáros - accompanies the dramatic narrative line with well-considered, varied tempos and adapts carefully to the respective tension. "
  16. ↑ Karin Hasenstein: Detmold, Landestheater Detmold, The cousin from Dingsda - Eduard Künneke. November 3, 2018, archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 : "Overall, however, the Symphonic Orchestra of the Detmold State Theater under György Mészáros offered a convincing sound experience."
  17. ↑ Jochen Rüth: Martha or the market from Richmond - Buaer is looking for a woman in Detmold. December 7, 2018, archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; retrieved on February 3, 2020 : "György Mészáros kindles a fireworks display of good humor in the ditch, indulges in a wealth of romantic melodies, but here and there with all the humor also presents a little sentimental depth."
  18. ↑ Jochen Rüth: Der Wildschütz - Lortzings Wildschütz is a comedy ... December 7, 2019, archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 : “The fact that the coordination between the stage and the pit more than once crunched properly in the first half of the evening is perhaps more due to a nervousness at the premiere than to György Mészáros, who presented an extremely solid conducting overall, but it did here and there lacks musical humor. "
  19. ^ György Mészáros - Landestheater Detmold. In: landestheater-detmold.de. Archived from the original on December 7, 2018 ; accessed on February 4, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Christoph Kuppler: Parish letter Detmold Lutheran. (PDF; 19 MB) In: detmold-lutherisch.de. 2018, p. 32 , archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  21. ↑ church magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Wencelai Wurzen and Kühren-Burkartshain. (PDF; 6.4 MB) In: kirche-im-leipziger-land.de. 2019, p. 8 , archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  22. ^ Lecturers (by name): HfM Detmold - University of Music. Archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  23. ↑ György Mészáros - Young Symphony Orchestra. In: jungesinfoniker.de. Archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  24. ^ György Mészáros. In: ogd-info.de. Archived from the original on September 18, 2018 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  25. ↑ fwr: From youth, farewell and musical hobby . In: Lippische Landes-Zeitung . Detmold November 19, 2019: “The orchestra company is playing in the Konzerthaus for the first time. Around 600 viewers experience a demanding program with an expressive Megan Marie Hart as the soloist. "
  26. ↑ Keresés: AN 3766565 OSZK Katalógus. In: http://nektar.oszk.hu . March 3, 2020, archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 (Hungarian).
  27. ↑ Balázs Fülei | Recordings. In: lfze.hu. Archived from the original on February 3, 2020 ; accessed on February 3, 2020 (Hungarian).
personal data
SURNAME Mészáros, György
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest