is Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and has previously held positions as Chief Conductor of the Savaria Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne.

The 22/23 season includes debuts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. He will return to the Bamberger Symphoniker, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI.

Equally established in the operatic repertoire, he has led productions at English National Opera, Dutch National Opera, Hungarian State Opera and Grand Théâtre de Genève. This season he makes his debut at La Monnaie conducting Shostakovich’s The Nose.

While grounded in the traditional classic and romantic repertoire, Gergely is an advocate of Bartók, Kodály and Dohnányi, maintaining a close relationship with new music having conducted more than 100 works written after 1970, collaborating closely with composers Pierre Boulez, George Benjamin, György Kurtág and Péter Eötvös. In 2011, he was a finalist at the Besançon International Conducting Competition, and winner of the Arte Live Web prize.

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Benedictine monk from Pannonhalma, born in 1980 in Szombathely. He graduated from the Czuczor Gergely Benedictine High School in Győr. He completed his theological studies at the Sapientia Monastic Theological College in Budapest. He holds a degree in Classics and Philology and a Master's degree in German and Latin from ELTE. His doctoral dissertation is based on the biographies of St. Jerome. Since 2015, he is the cultural director of the Pannonhalma Abbey, managing director of the Benedictine Publishing House, director of the Arcus Temporum art festival, and editorial board member of the Pannonhalmi Szemle.

Born in1986, Pierre Génisson belongs to the new generation of talented french woodwind players. A prize winner at the Nielsen International Competition, he won the first prize and audience prize at the prestigious Jacques Lancelot International Clarinet competition in Tokyo. Following this success, he records his first CD « Made in France » who just won several awards in the classical music world such as Diapason d'or and FFFF by Télérama Magazine.

He begins his musical studies in Marseille, before entering the prestigious « Paris Conservatoire » in 2005, to study with Michel Arrignon. There, he is awarded the first prize with honors in Clarinet and Chamber music. Then, he followed the « Artist diploma program » with Yehuda Gilad at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Pierre was the principal clarinet of the « Orchestre de Bretagne », one of France's leading orchestra. He plays with his orchestra in many reknown International festivals, as « Les folles journées in Nantes », the « Berlioz Festival », the Reims Festival, the Aix en Provence festival, the Dinard festival, the Madrid festival, the Clarinet Festival in Austin Texas, the « Encuentro festival » in Santander, Evian Festival, Mozart Festival in Würzburg, Colmar, Menton. He is a regularly invited as guest principal with most of the European orchestras, and plays under conductors such as Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Emmanuel Krivine, Lionel Bringuier, Olari Elts, Krysztof Urbansky, Darell Ang, Sacha Goetzel, Krysztof Penderecki, Charles Dutoit. A chamber music enthousiast, he plays with Thierry Escaich, Franck Braley, Marielle Nordmann, the Metropolitan Opera house's principals, David Bismuth, François Chaplin, Delphine Haidan, Nicolas Dautricourt, François Dumont, Florent Boffard, Juliette Hurel Wolfram Christ, le Trio Elégiaque, Claire Désert, the Voce Quartet, Hermes Quartet, Adrien Boisseau. 

As a soloist, he plays with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Odense Symphony, the Trondheim Symphony, the Orchestre de Bretagne, Orchestre de la Nouvelle Europe, l'orchestre Royal Philharmonique de Liège. In venues such as, Suntury Hall of Tokyo, Salle Gaveau, Auditorium of Radio France, Theâtre National de Bretagne Odense Konzerthus, Paris Cité de la Musique, Liège Philharmonie, Yokozuka art center. In 2011, he makes his Berlin debut, playing the Debussy Rhapsodie and Bruch's Double Concert at the Berlin Philharmonie. His second recording will include Mozart and Weber Quintet with the string quartet of the soloist of the Metropolitan opera in NYC (Aparté/Harmonia Mundi, first Half 2017). Pierre Génisson will create (world premiere) the concerto written by the French composer Eric Tanguy with the Royal Philharmonic orchestra of Liège. Genisson is a Buffet Crampon Artist and plays «Tradition» clarinets.

actor. Between 1983–1987 he was a student at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in the class of László Marton. Between 1987-1993 he played at the Vígszínház. Between 1993-1995 he was a member of the Művész Színház and the Thália Theatre. Between 1995-1996 he performed at the National Theatre of Miskolc. From 1996–1998 he was with the Thália Company and the Móricz Zsigmond Theatre in Nyíregyháza. Between 1998-2000 he was an actor at the Szeged National Theatre. From 2000–2003 he performed at the Szigligeti Theatre in Szolnok. From 2003–2007 he was a member of the Bárka Theatre, and from 2008–2014 – until the theatre's closure – he was its director. In 2016 he became a member of the Vígszínház again.

Cythera is a European chamber choir founded by Mihály Zeke in 2019 following his years at the head of Arsys Bourgogne, whence the new ensemble’s core members are issued. Cythera is born out of the desire to form a new group of international composition and open to new forms of artistic collaboration. The ensemble’s size varies around an average of 24 singers according to each different project. The choir is dedicated to bringing the best choral music, old and new, to audiences while striving for the highest standard of technical quality and for passionate expressiveness. Cythera’s project assumes a pan-European dimension, reflecting its members’ provenance from ten different countries. The choir’s ambition is to present audiences with the greatest works of choral literature past and future in the highest artistic quality. Cythera’s singers, chosen for their unique artistic personality, are marked by high individual skill as soloists in a wide range of repertoire as well as by their capacity to blend into a homogeneous sound.