György Vashegyi

A pioneer in early music performance in Hungary, conductor Györgi Vashegyi is the founder and director of two influential ensembles, the Purcell Choir and the Orfeo Orchestra. He has also conducted other orchestras, both period-oriented and modern, in Hungary and beyond, and he has led many opera performances. Vashegyi issued a recording of Michael Haydn's oratorio Kaiser Constantin I: Feldzug und Sieg in 2022. By that time, his catalog comprised more than 35 items, many containing music exposed by his own research. Vashegyi has won major Hungarian cultural prizes, and in 2022, he was made a Knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters.