Gergely Madaras is Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège since 2019. Together, they have performed across Belgium and toured to Europe and South America, having been regularily featured on Mezzo and Medici.tv and have been building an extensive discography ranging from César Franck through Liszt and Dohnányi for Alpha, BIS, Fuga Libera and Palazzetto Bru Zane labels. Gergely was previously Music Director of the Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne and Chief Conductor of the Savaria Symphony Orchestra.

 

As a guest conductor, Gergely’s recent highlights include engagements with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, NHK Symphony Tokyo, Philharmonia, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony and Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Hallé, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and Sao Paulo State Symphony.

 

The 2024-25 season sees Gergely return to the WDR Sinfonieorchester, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, BBC Symphony and BBC NOW, Hamburger Symphoniker, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Hungarian Radio and the Norwegian Radio Orchestras; furthermore he makes debuts with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, George Enescu Philharmonic, Zagreb Philharmonic and the Romanian National Radio Symphony.

 

 

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) is regarded as one of the leading orchestras in Asia. Presenting more than 150 concerts over a 44-week season, the HK Phil attracts more than 200,000 music lovers annually. The HK Phil won the prestigious UK classical music magazine Gramophone’s 2019 Orchestra of the Year Award – the first orchestra in Asia to receive this accolade.

 

​​Tarmo Peltokoski is the HK Phil’s Music Director Designate in 2025/26 and will become Music Director in the 2026/27 season. ​Currently, Long Yu serves as Principal Guest Conductor and Lio Kuokman is Resident Conductor.​ Esa-Pekka Salonen is Composer-in-Residence.​

 

The HK Phil has flourished in the last two decades under Jaap van Zweden (Music Director, 2012–2024) and Edo de Waart (Artistic Director and Chief Conductor, 2004–2012). The orchestra successfully completed a four-year journey through Wagner’s Ring Cycle, performing and recording one opera from the cycle annually from 2015 to 2018. The concert performances were well received, and the live Naxos recordings were praised by critics, and garnered the Gramophone Orchestra of the Year Award 2019. Other recent recording projects include Mahler’s Symphony no. 10, Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 10, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 6 and Piano Concerto no. 1.​ The HK Phil collaborates with Deutsche Grammophon and is set to release Wagner’s The Ring: An Orchestral Adventure arranged by Henk de V​​lieger​​ and​​ conducted by Tarmo Peltokoski. ​

 

The HK Phil has toured extensively across the Chinese Mainland. The orchestra undertook a major tour in 2017 to Seoul, Osaka, Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The HK Phil ​toured Europe, Asia and the Chinese Mainland, performing in 22 cities across ten countries in​ its 50th anniversary.​ In the 2025/26 season, the orchestra will perform in Europe, Japan, Korea and the Chinese Mainland again.​