Zoltán Peskó

Zoltán Peskó (15 February 1937 – 31 March 2020) was a Hungarian conductor and composer. Peskó was born in Budapest. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with Goffredo Petrassi and Franco Ferrara, as well as with Pierre Boulez in Switzerland in the 1960s. 

He became an assistant under Lorin Maazel at the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin. Peskó was chief conductor of the , the orchestra of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, from 2001 to 2004.

Peskó died on 31 March 2020 at age of 85.Elhunyt Peskó Zoltán világhírű magyar karmester 

 Early life and education 
Peskó was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 15 February 1937. He graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in 1962. He went on to study at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, then learned composition under Pierre Boulez in Basel in the 1960s. He also studied conducting under Franco Ferrara, and studied composition under Goffredo Petrassi.

Career
Peskó was the Generalmusikdirektor of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, based in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, from 1996 to 1999. His major programmes there included Verdi's La traviata and Otello, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and Mozart's Così fan tutte. There, he also conducted contemporary music, such as the German première of Giorgio Battistelli's Prova d’Orchestra (Orchesterprobe).

In 2012, he suffered a stroke that left him unable to continue conducting. Peskó died in Budapest on 31 March 2020 at the age of 83.Elhunyt Peskó Zoltán világhírű magyar karmester 

References

 Other websites 




 Zoltán Peskó Schott Music
 Zoltán Peskó Naxos Records
 Zoltán Peskó (recordings) muziekweb.nl
 Il Bellerofonte in Opern-Diskographie: Verzeichnis aller Audio- und Video-Gesamtaufnahmen

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