LASZLO HADADY

Laszlo Hadady

Laszlo Hadady was born in Bekesszentandras in 1956, and completed his training as an oboist and as a teacher in 1979. From 1976 to 1980 he was a member of the Hungarian State Concert Orchestra led by Janos Ferencsik, and from 1980 solo oboist of the Paris-based Ensemble Intercontemporain of Pierre Boulez. He has played regularly with the Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Paris Opera, the Symphony Orchestra of French Radio and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. In 1993 he was the soloist in Elliot Carter's Oboe Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and in Paris. He has also appeared as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Since 1995 he has been professor of chamber music and pedagogy at the Paris Academy of Music. His major solo recordings are Berio's Chemin IV and Sequenza VII. He has given more than two thousand concerts in 45 countries throughout the world, and plays the Stradivari of oboe-players, a Loree Royal. He gives master classes in musical centres ranging from Tokyo to Buenos Aires, and from Melbourne to Damascus. As a chamber musician he has played with, in particular, Shlomo Mintz, Zoltan Kocsis, Miklos Perenyi, Philip Smith, Christian Zacharias, and with the Takacs, Keller and Bartok Quartets.

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