Lukács Ervin
conductor
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1928
9 August 1928 Budapest - 18 February 2011
Eminent Hungarian conductor Ervin Lukács was born in Budapest, in 1928. Having commenced his musical studies as early as at the age of seven, he learned composition with Professor Rezső Sugár in the Budapest at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in 1950-51, then studied conducting under Professor László Somogyi at the Budapest Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in 1951-56, where his professors included Zoltán Kodály and Ferenc Farkas. He obtained a conductor�s diploma in 1956.
Between 1954 and 56, Ervin Lukács was the conductor of the Hungarian People�s Army Artistic Ensemble, with which he toured in the G.D.R. and China. In 1956-57 he was the principal conductor of the Miskolc Opera House and the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra. He was professor at the department for conducting of the Academy of Music, between 1956 and 59. Since 1957 Ervin Lukács has been conductor in the Budapest Sate Opera. In 1961-62, respectively, he attended the master class held by Franco Ferrara in Venice and in Rome�s Accademia di Santa Cecilia. In the 1962 Rome Santa Cecilia International Concours for conductors, Ervin Lukács was awarded the absolute first prize. In the wake of his signal success, he conducted the RAI Symphony Orchestra and the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome, and appeared in the concert halls of Cagliari, Genoa, Palermo and Venice. Besides regularly conducting in the Budapest State Opera, in Hungary�s concert halls and in the studios of the Hungarian Radio and TV, he conducted several concerts of the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra in Britain, the U.S., Japan, Australia, the G.D.R. He appeared as guest conductor in almost every European country, in Cuba, and made five different extensive tours of the major cities of Japan, standing at the helm of various eminent Japanese symphony orchestras.
In 1981 he conducted Bartók�s Duke Bluebeard�s Castle at the Prague Spring Festival, and in La Scala Opera House, Milan. In the same year he led several concerts of the NHK Symphony Orchestra the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in the major cities of Japan. In 1982, Ervin Lukács with the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra made an extensive tour of Britain, and put in his first-ever guest performances in Mexico and Venezuela.
In appreciation of his outstanding merits for spreading Hungarian musical culture at home and abroad, Ervin Lukács was awarded the Liszt Award, Bartók-Pásztory Award, Korruth Prize, the title of Merited Artist and Excellent Artist was conferred upon him.
Eminent Hungarian conductor Ervin Lukács was born in Budapest, in 1928. Having commenced his musical studies as early as at the age of seven, he learned composition with Professor Rezső Sugár in the Budapest at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in 1950-51, then studied conducting under Professor László Somogyi at the Budapest Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in 1951-56, where his professors included Zoltán Kodály and Ferenc Farkas. He obtained a conductor�s diploma in 1956.
Between 1954 and 56, Ervin Lukács was the conductor of the Hungarian People�s Army Artistic Ensemble, with which he toured in the G.D.R. and China. In 1956-57 he was the principal conductor of the Miskolc Opera House and the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra. He was professor at the department for conducting of the Academy of Music, between 1956 and 59. Since 1957 Ervin Lukács has been conductor in the Budapest Sate Opera. In 1961-62, respectively, he attended the master class held by Franco Ferrara in Venice and in Rome�s Accademia di Santa Cecilia. In the 1962 Rome Santa Cecilia International Concours for conductors, Ervin Lukács was awarded the absolute first prize. In the wake of his signal success, he conducted the RAI Symphony Orchestra and the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome, and appeared in the concert halls of Cagliari, Genoa, Palermo and Venice. Besides regularly conducting in the Budapest State Opera, in Hungary�s concert halls and in the studios of the Hungarian Radio and TV, he conducted several concerts of the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra in Britain, the U.S., Japan, Australia, the G.D.R. He appeared as guest conductor in almost every European country, in Cuba, and made five different extensive tours of the major cities of Japan, standing at the helm of various eminent Japanese symphony orchestras.
In 1981 he conducted Bartók�s Duke Bluebeard�s Castle at the Prague Spring Festival, and in La Scala Opera House, Milan. In the same year he led several concerts of the NHK Symphony Orchestra the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in the major cities of Japan. In 1982, Ervin Lukács with the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra made an extensive tour of Britain, and put in his first-ever guest performances in Mexico and Venezuela.
In appreciation of his outstanding merits for spreading Hungarian musical culture at home and abroad, Ervin Lukács was awarded the Liszt Award, Bartók-Pásztory Award, Korruth Prize, the title of Merited Artist and Excellent Artist was conferred upon him.