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Hungarian born Huba HollókÅ‘i is an award winning conductor, violinist, opera director and arranger. Since 2022 he is artistic director of the Kecskemét Symphony Orchestra. As a conductor, HollókÅ‘i has worked with leading symphony orchestras around the world, including the Netherland Philharmonic Orchestra, Residentie Orchestra, Noord Netherland Orchestra, Dutch Ballet Orchestra, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Oulu Symphony Orchestra, Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, Sønderjyllands Symphony Orchestra, OSUG Symphony Orchestra, MÁV Symphony Orchestra, Danubia Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra, GyÅ‘r Symphony Orchestra. He made his Concertgebouw debut in 2017 with the Philharmonie Südwestfalen. HollókÅ‘i regularly appears with the Joensuu City Orchestra as well as the Filarmonica Mihail Jora Bacău. His soloist partners were Barnabás Kelemen, Minna Pensola (violin), Suzana Bartal, Janne Mertanen, Balázs Fülei, Viniciu Moroianu, Oana Csiky (piano), Stefan Danifeld (horn), Hugo Manzanilla Victoria (clarinet), among others.

HollókÅ‘i is a sought after opera conductor; several of his productions have received critical acclaim, including Bizet's Carmen, Verdi's Rigoletto, a handful of Mozart operas, Beethoven’s Fidelio, and the Finnish premier of Cesar Cui’s “Puss in boots” children opera. He debuted as stage director with Donizetti’s L’elisir D’amore. He conducted a dozen of contemporary music premiers on the "IubiÈ›i Muzica Româneasca!" festival in Oradea, “Intrada” Festival in Timisoara, with the UMZE Ensemble in Budapest, and also prepared the premiere of Monique Krüs's opera, Anne Frank.

He began his musical studies as a violinist at the age of four. After graduating at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, he continued to study conducting at prestigious class of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and deepened his knowledge at the National Master Orchestral Conducting program in Amsterdam/Den Haag. From 2015 to 2017, he was the assistant conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, where he worked closely with Markus Stenz, Bernard Haitink, Edo de Waart, John Adams, Vladimir Jurowski, and other internationally renowned conductors. He is the main organizer of MasterclassBudapest music courses, where he also teaches conducting and coaches young soloists. 

As a violinist, HollókÅ‘i has performed throughout Hungary, England, Germany, Italy, Finland, Austria, Netherland and Japan. He regularly leads orchestras with his violin. Currently he is first violinist and founder of Taiga Quartet (Joensuu). He has been invited to perform at international festivals, including the Young Hungarian Talents in Focus in London, Herbstliche Musiktage in Bad Urach and Helsinki's Musica Nova.

​Huba HollókÅ‘i received several prizes both from notable violin and conducting competitions such as: 2nd Citta'di Brescia Giancarlo Facchinetti International Conducting Competition, János Koncz Violin Competition. He was one of the three finalists of the 53rd Besancon International Conducting Competition in 2013. In 2014, he received a scholarship from the Anton Kersjes Fonds, and in 2019 the scholarship of the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Portrait by Zsofi Raffay
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[Photo: Zsófi Raffay]

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