Gergely Madaras

Hungarian conductor Gergely first began studying folk music at the age of five. He went on to study classical flute, violin and composition, graduating from the Liszt Academy in Budapest, as well as the conducting faculty of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where he studied with Mark Stringer. Since 2019 Gergely Madaras has been Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège since 2019. Together, they have performed across Europe and South America. Gergely was previously Music Director of the Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne and Chief Conductor of the Savaria Symphony Orchestra. 

As a guest conductor, Gergely’s recent highlights include engagements with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, NHK Symphony Tokyo, Philharmonia, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony and Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Hallé, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and Sao Paulo State Symphony.