Artist database

This is the Artist Database of BMC, which includes information about composers, musicians, orchestras, choirs and groups that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary, as well as information about releases recorded with them.

(Szakács) Ajtony Csaba


conductor

Place of Birth
Kolozsvár (Cluj - Ro)
Date of Birth
1976
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Ajtony Csaba is music director to the UVic Symphony Orchestra in the Canadian Victoria, and conductor of the Central European Chamber Orchestra (mikamo) in Vienna. Past years have seen the Cluj-born conductor conducting almost all Hungarian orchestras, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra (hr-sinfonieorchester), Radio-Symphonieorchester Vienna, Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as reoccurring engagements at the Darmstadt New Music Festival, SiMN (Curitiba - BR), Wien Modern, and Dresdner Tage der zeitgenössischen Musik.

After the success of his music theatre gentle birth he has been resident composer and conductor at the Festspielhaus Dresden (EZKH) and assistant conductor to the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. His opera debut was with 25 conducting the Hungarian première of Shostakovhich’s Cheryomoushky. He worked as Kapellmeister at the Studiobühne in Vienna. Between 2013 and 2016 he apprenticed with Maurizio Arena in Teatro Mancinelli (Orvieto, Italy) on historic interpretation from Puccini and Verdi.

As conductor of the concert cycles Hermes and recycled in 2008-2010 he led mikamo in significant concert halls of the Central European region and China, the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, and Music Academies in Budapest, Bucharest, and Cracow. He is artistic director of the concert series NEW{Spirit&Music} in Budapest.

see also: (Szakács) Ajtony Csaba - composer
 
Year Title Publisher Code Remark
2019 Istvan Anhalt: the timber of those times CMC - Canadian Music Centre CD-CMCCD 26419