As a guest conductor, Gergely’s recent highlights include engagements with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, NHK Symphony Tokyo, Philharmonia, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony and Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Hallé, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and Sao Paulo State Symphony.
The 2024-25 season sees Gergely return to the WDR Sinfonieorchester, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, BBC Symphony and BBC NOW, Hamburger Symphoniker, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Hungarian Radio and the Norwegian Radio Orchestras; furthermore he makes debuts with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, George Enescu Philharmonic, Zagreb Philharmonic and the Romanian National Radio Symphony.
Gergely was the inaugural Sir Charles Mackerras Fellow at the English National Opera, which culminated in his operatic debut at the London Coliseum with a new production of Die Zauberflöte with stage director Simon McBurney. Since then, he has conducted critically acclaimed productions at the Dutch National Opera, La Monnaie Brussels, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opera de Dijon and the Hungarian State Opera.
Whilst grounded in the core classical and romantic repertoire, Gergely maintains a close relationship with new music. He has collaborated with composers George Benjamin, Péter Eötvös, György Kurtág, Tristan Murail, Luca Francesconi, Philippe Boesmans and Pierre Boulez, for whom he served as assistant conductor at the Lucerne Festival Academy between 2011-2013.
Gergely has appeared as a regular guest at the Lucerne, Gstaad, Milano Musica, Bucharest Enescu, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Murten Classics, Septembre Musical Montreux, MiTo Settembre Musica, Budapest Spring and the Tokyo Stradivarius music festivals and made highly praised recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Bamberger Symphoniker and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Born in Budapest in 1984, Gergely first began studying folk music with the last generation of authentic Hungarian gipsy and peasant musicians at the age of five. He went on to study classical flute, violin and composition, graduating from the flute faculty of the Liszt Academy in Budapest, as well as the conducting faculty of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where he studied with Mark Stringer.
