פורום תיאורטיקנים עם המלחין Gyula Fekete ועם המנצח Mattia Rondelli

Gyula Fekete is Professor of Composition at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in  Budapest, Hungary. From 2012 he also serves as the Head of the Department. He is also a lecturer at the University of Theatre, Film and Television, Budapest. He received a Doctorate in Composition from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA, in 1996, and a Masters Degree from the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University in 1993. Fekete also holds a Diploma in composition and theory from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest, Hungary. He is the recipient of many awards including the 1996 William T. Faricy Award, and the Fulbright grant for the 1994 -1995 academic year.

Mr. Fekete is the One Act Opera Category winner with his opera, The Redeemed Town, in the competition announced by the Hungarian State Opera for the year 2000 celebration of the thousandth anniversary of the foundation of the Sate of Hungary. The opera received its premiere in 2002 in the Hungarian State Operahouse. Fekete wrote the opera entitled: Excelsior! Liszt Ferenc Goes to Heaven for the Liszt bicentennial in 2011, which was commissioned and produced by the Budapest Spring Festival and the Hungarian State Operahouse. His first CD was released in 2001 by Hungaroton Classic Record Company. He holds commissions by the Hungarian State Opera, Budapest Chamber Symphony, Chicago Pro Musica and The Music Group of Philadelphia.

Fekete is on the Board of Directors of the Hungarian Composers' Association. Fekete in 2001 received the Erkel Prize, and the Bartók – Pásztory Prize in 2012. He has worked for numerous theater and film productions in Hungary.

Mattia Rondelli is an Italian conductor. His engagements have brought him to some of the most important venues in Italy, Switzerland, UK, Russia, USA, and China. His versatility as a conductor has led to performances of works from both the operatic and orchestral repertoire, wildly ranging from early music to the music of today.

Relevantly, Mr. Rondelli was invited in 2011 to conduct a concert featuring Barbara Frittoli along with the worldly renown Orchestra, Choir and soloists of Mariinsky Theatre at White Nights Festival. That first occasion represented the modern premiere of some sacral pages by Giuseppe Sarti, an Italian composer who either “inspired” Mozart and, having spent almost twenty years at Catherine II court, is considered one of the main fathers of the Russian musical tradition.

In Italy, Mr Rondelli is a regular guest conductor at MiTo SettembreMusica Festival, the second largest Festival in Europe after BBC Proms. Recently he made his debut also on the podium of one of the most important Italian opera Theatre, Turin Teatro Regio and Chicago Philharmonic. He also performed with I Virtuosi del Teatro alla Scala, Arturo Toscanini Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, La Fenice Orchestra, Orchestra del Festival Settimane Musicali di Stresa, Marche Philharmonic Orchestra, Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, Turin Philharmonic Orchestra, Rome Youth Orchestra, National Opera Orchestra of Beijing, CCPA Symphony  Orchestra in Chicago, Maestri Orchestra London  and Orchestra Cantelli. In 2011 Mr. Rondelli joined again the St Petersburg Philharmonia, while in 2010 Mr. Rondelli has made his debut at Zankel hall at Carnegie in New York, and previously he had conducted Civic Orchestra in Chicago with Barbara Frittoli singing Berlioz Les Nuits d’èté. In the same year he premiered at Orquestra Sinfonica Nacional de Peru, Mahler 6.  As an assistant he worked at opera productions with D. Callegari, G. Noseda and D. Renzetti.

After his piano studies, Mr. Rondelli earned degrees in both orchestral conducting and music composition from the Milan  Conservatory of Music. His real mentors for conducting have been Piero Bellugi, Jorma Panula and Donato Renzetti. In addition to his musical education, Mr. Rondelli holds a degree in Law .