Gregory Vajda

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gregory Vajda
Occupation	Conductor
Date Of Birth	Aug 13, 1973(1973-08-13)
Age	51
Birthplace	Budapest
Country	Hungary
Horoscope	Leo

Gregory Vajda Biography

Gregory Vajda is one of the most popular and richest Conductor who was born on August 13, 1973 in Budapest, Hungary. His birthplace was in Budapest in 1973, to the bassoonist Jozsef Vajda (1947-2016) along with the operatic singer Veronika Kincses. Vajda trained as a conductor in the Franz Liszt Academy of Music under the guidance of Professor Ervin Lukacs. Additionally, he was a composition and conducting pupil of the well-known conductor and composer Peter Eotvos.

As the assistant conductor for the Milwaukee Symphony, a position which he resigned in 2005, Gregory Vajda led several regional tours. He also had the opportunity for conducting the Canadian Brass Maureen McGovern and the KingSingers as well as the Milwaukee Symphony in a yearlyclassical subscription series. In previous seasons, Vajda appeared with St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Winnipeg, Louisville, Charlotte and Omaha orchestras, as well as The National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Ensemble Intercontemporain, directed at the Klangforum Vienna in performances of Peter Eotvos’ I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams and Three Sisters (as part of the Wiener Festwochen), gave the world premiere in his opera chamber The Giantbaby at the New Theatre in Budapest as well as the world premier of Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ranki’s King Pomade’s The New Clothes in the Hungarian State Opera. He has also conducted the Festivals that took place in Avignon and Strasbourg as well as in The Woodstock Mozart Festival, Grant Park Festival and the Mostly Mozart Festival in Lincoln Center.

In 2009, Vajda began serving as artistic and music director of Music in the Mountains, based in California. More recently, Vajda was named music director and conductor of the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra in Huntsville, Alabama.

Vajda’s 2009/10 season began with a stint at the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, followed by his first return to the Hungarian State Opera since emigrating to the US. In his adopted country he led subscription concerts with the Oregon Symphony, debuts with the Seattle, Grand Rapids and Memphis symphonies, and returned to the San Antonio Symphony and Symphony Silicon Valley.

Vajda has been the resident director for the Oregon Symphony located in Portland, Oregon, since 2005. The 2012-2013 season is his final as a conductor of the orchestra.

Gregory Vajda Net Worth

Gregory Vajda is one of the richest Conductor from Hungary. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gregory Vajda 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gregory Vajda (born Gergely Vajda born on August 13, 1973) is a Hungarian clarinetist, composer, and conductor.

Alongside the conductor role, Vajda is also a skilled musician and clarinetist. He composed his own composition in the silent movie The Crowd at the Auditorium of the Louvre together in collaboration with American piano player Jay Gottlieb. He recorded his work Duevoe together with The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was awarded Zoltan Kodaly’s State Scholarship for composers for 2000, as well as his Annie Fischer State Scholarship for musicians in 1999.

Season 2008/09 marked the conductor’s introduction to the Salzburg Festival as assistant conductor to Peter Eötvös. He conducted the final performance of Bartok’sBluebeard’s Castle with the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Chorus, before returning to the Atlanta Opera to lead La Cenerentola. On the orchestra stage, he conducted the Toronto, Edmonton, San Antonio, and Silicon Valley symphonies. He also helped inaugurate the widely talked-about EMPAC at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY) with a performance of Grabstein für Stephan by György Kurtag.

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Gregory Ranked on the list of most popular Conductor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Hungary. Gregory Vajda celebrates birthday on August 13 of every year.