GYÖRGY PHILIPP
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He started his musical education on percussions and violin, and graduated from The Franz Liszt Academy of Music as a conductor in 2005. He has been a teacher and choirmaster in the Schola Cantorum Budapestiensis. As a teacher, he has taught at the Hungarian Dance Academy, the Baltazar Theater. He is a member of the music staff at the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Hungarian National Theatre and the Central European Dance Theatre; a singer for the Amadinda Percussion Group, the UMZE Chamber Ensemble, the Hungarian Radio Choir, the Purcell Choir and the ARTUS Performing Company. As conductor and director, he considers it his mission to stage opera performances that bring the genre closer to children as well as adults, even among the difficulties that afflict the Hungarian cultural scene. In this aim, he is helped by his chamber choir Á la cARTe, which is a complex musical society, also functioning as a vocal ensemble and theater company. Philipp’s opera productions are played in many schools in the country. At the moment he works at the National Philharmonic on their youth program series.