Daniel Somogyi–Tóth

Daniel Somogyi–Tóth

Hungary

Born in Budapest in 1981, he studied piano and composition at the Béla Bartók Conservatory and, in 2006, he graduated as conductor and organist at the Franz Liszt Academy.

Between 2007 and 2009 he was artistic director and chief conductor of the Békés County Symphony Orchestra, with which he won the “Prima” Award. Since 2009 he has been a guest conductor at the Budapest Operetta Theatre and has taken part in numerous tours abroad.

In 2011 he was appointed Music Director of the largest music institution in Debrecen, Hungary’s second largest city. The Kodály Philharmonic and the Kodály Choir have a repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary music with significant feedback of the audience. They participate in numerous concerts both in Hungary and abroad.

In 2012 he won the Reviewers’ Prize. In 2016 he conducted the orchestra in the Autumn Trilogy “Along the Danube”, (The Countess Maritza, The Bat, The Merry Widow) which took place at the XXVIII edition of Ravenna Festival.

He has performed at the Tonhalle in Zurich, at the National Performing Arts Centre in Beijing, at the Philharmonie im Gasteig in Munich, at the Opera in Tel Aviv and has collaborated with Nigel Kennedy, Sir Neville Marriner, Yuri Simonov, Andras Ligeti, Erika Miklosa, Laurent Petitgirard, Bobby McFerrin and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. He regularly performs as a soloist with the Hungarian National Philharmonic and has recorded for Naxos Records.