György G. Ráth

Principal Guest Conductor of the Real Symphonic Orchestra of Sevilla, Professor at the University of Győr, former music director of the Opera of Nice (France) the Hungarian Stateopera of Budapest, and the Orchestra of the Budapest Philharmonic Society Ráth started his career in 1986 by winning the Toscanini Competition in Parma.

He is a regular guest conductor in Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires,[3] the Hamburg Staatsoper, the Lyric Theater in Chicago, the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Teatro Regio di Torino[4] the opera houses in Rome and Nice, and of symphonic orchestras like the Seville Royal Philharmonics, the Symphonic Orchestra of the Italian Radio,[5] the Seoul Philharmonics and the Zagrab Philharmonics.

He worked in most countries of the world with artists like Marcello Alvarez, Renato Bruson, José Cura, Daniela Dessì, Norma Fantini, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Maria Guleghina, Sumi Jo, Zoltán Zoltán, Gidon Kremer, Éva Marton, Viktoria Mullova, Leo Nucci, Uto Ughi, Giacomo Prestia, Samuel Ramey, Vadim Repin, Sylvia Sass and Grigorij Sokolov.

He wrote a book on conducting, including his personal experience and things he had learned during his own studies from his Hungarian teachers, László Somogyi and Ervin Lukács, as well as from Franco Ferrara in Italy, Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa in the United States, Kurt Masur in Germany and Karl Österreicher in Austria.

1 - Kreisler: Altwiener Tanzweisen, Magyar Virtuózok Kamarazenekar, Szenthelyi Miklós Archived 2020-08-14 at the Wayback Machine - Carlo Colombara - The Art of the Bass; Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana/György G. Ráth; NAXOS - Ernst von Dohnányi, Piano concertos; Budapest Symphony Orchestra Orchestra, László Baranyai Piano; Hungaroton - complete discography on the personal website of the conductor https://www.uni.sze.hu