Zoltán Peskó

Zoltán Peskó
Zoltán Peskó in 2006
Born(1937-02-15)15 February 1937
Budapest, Hungary
Died31 March 2020(2020-03-31) (aged 83)
Budapest, Hungary
Education
  • Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
Occupations
  • Conductor
  • Academic lecturer
Organizations
  • Deutsche Oper Berlin
  • Teatro Comunale di Bologna
  • La Fenice
  • La Scala
  • Teatro Nacional de São Carlos

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 Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, the orchestra of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, from 2001 to 2004.[1]

Peskó died on 31 March 2020 at age of 85.[2]

Early life and education

Peskó was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 15 February 1937.[3][4][5] He graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in 1962.[6] 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.[3][7] He also studied conducting under Franco Ferrara, and studied composition under Goffredo Petrassi.[7]

Career

Peskó was the Generalmusikdirektor of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, based in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, from 1996 to 1999.[4][5] 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).[5]

In 2012, he suffered a stroke that left him unable to continue conducting.[3] Peskó died in Budapest on 31 March 2020 at the age of 83.[3][5][6][8]

References

  1. ↑ "Zoltán Peskó (Maestro Titular)" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on November 10, 2013. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
  2. ↑ Elhunyt Peskó Zoltán világhírű magyar karmester (in Hungarian)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Dirigent Zoltan Pesko gestorben / Der ungarische Komponist verstarb im Alter von 83 Jahren". Wiener Zeitung (in German). 1 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Zoltán Peskó". whoswho.de (in German). Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Deutsche Oper am Rhein trauert um Ex-GMD Zoltán Peskó". Westdeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Elhunyt Peskó Zoltán világhírű magyar karmester (in Hungarian)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Addio a Zoltan Peskoó, grande direttore del Novecento. Una vita da chigiano". chigiana.org (in Italian). 2 April 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  8. ↑ "Zoltán Peskó: il Teatro alla Scala ricorda il direttore scomparso". La Scala (in Italian). 1 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.

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