András Derecskei
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András Derecskei is a Budapest-based Hungarian conductor and composer, equally at home in the opera house and the concert hall. A graduate of the Liszt Academy in Budapest and the University of Arizona, he has conducted in Europe and the United States, and his music has been performed in more than 20 countries.
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András Derecskei is a Budapest-based Hungarian conductor and composer working in both the opera house and the concert hall. He studied conducting, violin and composition at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest and received his doctorate from the University of Arizona. From 2015 to 2018 he was Assistant Conductor of the Arizona Symphony Orchestra and Resident Assistant Conductor at Opera in the Ozarks. In winter 2025–26 he conducted Orff’s Carmina Burana on a three-month tour with the Paris Ballet Theater across five countries. His compositions have been performed in more than 20 countries.
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András Derecskei is a Budapest-based Hungarian conductor and composer working in both the opera house and the concert hall. In winter 2025–26 he conducted Orff’s Carmina Burana on a three-month tour with the Paris Ballet Theater, with performances in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Switzerland, including Amsterdam’s RAI. In Hungary he regularly conducts orchestras such as the MÁV Symphony Orchestra and the Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra.
He studied conducting, violin and composition at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest and received his doctorate from the University of Arizona. From 2015 to 2018 he was Assistant Conductor of the Arizona Symphony Orchestra and Resident Assistant Conductor at Opera in the Ozarks. As an orchestral musician in Hungary he has played under the baton of Sir Neville Marriner, Riccardo Muti, Valery Gergiev, Kobayashi Ken-Ichiro and Ádám Fischer.
His catalogue of nearly a hundred works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, choir, orchestra and the stage has been performed at festivals in more than 20 countries, and several works are published by hangverseny.hu, Peer Music and Kontrapunkt. He received a Special Prize at the 3rd Antal Doráti International Conducting Competition (2021), the composition prize of the International Crossover Competition (Germany, 2015) and, in 2006, third prize with a string quartet at the Janáček International String Quartet Competition in the Czech Republic.