January 20, 2010
Celebrating Maestro Iván
Fischer, Principal Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra on his
birthday
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Ambassador Szombati invited eminent personalities to celebrate
the 59th birthday of Iván Fischer, Principal Conductor of the
National Symphony Orchestra on January 20, 2010. |
Maestro Fischer is an outstanding member of the imaginary Hall of Fame
of Hungarian conductors, along with Szell, Ormandy, Solti, Dorati,
Fricsay, Reiner. He is Founder and Music Director of the Budapest
Festival Orchestra and their partnership has proved to be a great
success story. The BFO was recently voted one of the ten best orchestras
in the world by Gramophone Magazine. Maestro Fischer also founded
several festivals, including a summer festival in Budapest for baroque
music and the Budapest Mahlerfest which is also a forum for
commissioning and presenting new works.
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The birthday dinner was a great social event with over forty
representatives of the cultural, political and diplomatic
community, including NSO Board member Michael Brewer, Art
Patrons Roger and Vicki Sant, Congressmen Lincoln Diaz-Balart
and Donald Manzullo, Ambassador Jan Matthysen of Belgium,
Ambassador Christian Prosl of Austria and Former US Ambassador
to Budapest Nancy Brinker.
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On Friday, January 22 Maestro Fischer conducted the NSO in a
Kennedy Center concert benefiting the relief efforts under way
in Haiti following the devastating January 12 earthquake.
Proceeds were sent to the Haiti Relief and Development Fund of
the American Red Cross.
Iván Fischer also founded the American Friends of the Budapest
Festival Orchestra. We would like to draw your attention to a
concert and gala dinner honoring the BFO, its Music Director
Ivan Fischer, and the legacy of Sir Georg Solti on March 28,
2010 at 3:00 pm in New York at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher
Hall. The concert features Beethoven's 6th and 9th as a
culmination of four programs presenting the complete Beethoven
symphonies in four days. |
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Following the concert, there will be a reception and dinner on
the Promenade of Avery Fisher Hall, co-chaired by Mrs. Daisy M.
Soros and Mrs. Cynthia Whitehead, and honoring Maestro Fischer’s
25 years as Music Director of the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
For further details, please go to the website of the Hungarian
Cultural Center in New York.
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