Ádám Fischer
Ádám Fischer (born 9 September 1949 in Budapest) is a Hungarian conductor. He is the general music director of the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, chief conductor of the Danish National Chamber Orchestra, and chief conductor of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker. Career. Ádám Fischer is an elder brother of the conductor Iván Fischer. The two belonged to the children's choir of Budapest National Opera house, and sang as two of the three boys in Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte". Fischer studied piano and composition at the Bartók Conservatory in Budapest, and conducting with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna. He also studied  with Franco Ferrara at Accademia Chigiana in Siena. He won first prize in the Milan Guido Cantelli Competition. His career began with opera conducting in Munich, Freiburg, and other German cities. In 1982 he made his Paris Opéra debut, leading "Der Rosenkavalier", and in 1986 he made his debut at La Scala, Milan, leading "Die Zauberflöte". Between 1987 and 1992, he was the general music director in Kassel. Fischer began a long collaboration with the Vienna State Opera in 1973. In January 2017, he was named an honorary member of the company. In 1987, Fischer established the Austro-Hungarian Haydn  Orchestra and started the Haydn Festival in the Austrian city of Eisenstadt. He has recorded the complete Haydn symphonies for the Nimbus label, the first digital recording of the cycle, with the orchestra. In July 1989, Fischer started the first Gustav Mahler Festivals in Kassel. In 1998, Fischer was appointed chief conductor of the Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Fischer has recorded the complete "Opere serie" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with this orchestra, and is currently recording Mozart's complete symphonies. At the end of 2010 Fischer resigned as Music Director of the Hungarian State Opera in protest against the controversial  media law introduced in Hungary in 2011. Speaking in Brussels on 11 January 2011 he told reporters: Fischer joined with András Schiff, Miklós Jancsó and others in an open letter condemning the Hungarian government's record on these issues. Fischer has recorded commercially for Nimbus, CBS, EMI, Hungaroton and Delta. In 1982, he won the Grand Prix du Disque. In 2018, he was the laureate of the Wolf Prize in Arts.