He frequently conducts opera productions and is also known as an established composer whose music has been commissioned and presented by major orchestras, ensembles and festivals all over the globe, in Hungary, Germany, France, and the United States, for instance. For his achievements as a performing artist and a composer, he has been awarded the Gundel Art Prize in 2001, the Bartók–Pásztory Award in 2018, and the Artisjus Performing Arts Award in 2020. In 2022, his mono-concert-opera Transporters (Fuharosok) based on a book by renowned author Péter Esterházy won Classical Composition of the Year.
He first conducted the ensembles of the Hungarian State Opera at a guest performance of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre in Zagreb in 1999, and he made his debut at the Opera House in Budapest in 2000 as the conductor of Three Sisters by Péter Eötvös. As an expert in 20th-century and contemporary music, he conducted the new 2014 production of Der Tenor by Ernst von Dohnányi, which was also published as a recording. At the OPERA’s 2018 Bluebeard100 Festival, he conducted his own Barbie Blue in a double bill with Bartók’s masterpiece. His further collaborations with the Hungarian State Opera include the Hungarian premieres of Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie in 2020 and Nixon in China by John Adams in 2024.
