Ádám Fischer

Conductor Ádám Fischer – born in Budapest, Hungary on September 9, 1949 – began his musical journey by singing in the Budapest National Opera Children's Choir as a child with his brother Ivan, who also went on to become a classical conductor. He later studied at the Kodály School in Budapest and then specialized in piano and conducting at the Bela Bartók Conservatory. On graduating, he moved to Vienna, Austria where he studied conducting with Hans Swarowsky. His early career was spent as a répétiteur in Graz from 1971-72, St Pölten from 1972-73 and then as assistant conductor at the Vienna Staatsoper from 1973-74. He won the Guido Cantelli International Conducting Competition at La Scala in Milan in 1973 and was appointed director of Finnish National Opera in 1974. He continued to gain experience with opera companies throughout Europe, with posts at the Karlsruhe Opera (1977-79), Freiburg Opera (1981-84) and Kassel Opera (1987-92). Alongside his opera conducting, Ádám Fischer also maintained a busy orchestral conducting schedule, with orchestras such as the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, the London Philharmonic, and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. In 1987, he established the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra and has been their general musical director ever since. He has recorded the complete Haydn Symphonies with them on the Nimbus Record Label, a process which took 14 years to complete. Ádám Fischer has been instrumental in establishing three major European music festivals. He set up the Haydn Tage Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria in 1987, the Gustav Mahler Festival in Kassel, Germany in 1989, and Wagner Days in Budapest, Hungary in 2006. He is also chief conductor of the Danish National Chamber Orchestra, with whom he has recorded Mozart's complete Opere Serie and Complete Symphonies. He has been the conductor of the Dusseldorf Symphony Orchestra since 2005. In addition to the Complete Symphonies of Haydn and Mozart, his discography includes some first performances, and notably works by Bartok including Bluebeard's Castle in 1988 which he also recorded for BBC TV. Other notable releases by Ádám Fisher include Kodály: Choral Works (2008), Beethoven: Complete Symphonies (2019), Brahms: Complete Symphonies (2022), Haydn: Late Symphonies, Vol. 1 (2023), and Haydn: Late Symphonies, Vol. 2 (2023).

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