Concert of the Orchestra of Budapest University of Technology A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

The Orchestra of Budapest University of Technology is a unique Hungarian phenomenon. There are few places in the world where a university that has no music faculty can claim to have an orchestra that has been performing for nearly 120 years. About a third of the orchestra’s current 70 members are active students at the Budapest University of Technology, another third are graduate engineers, while the rest are from quite different professions, including an artist and a surgeon. The orchestra has been led since 2003 by Géza Köteles, who is a repetiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and regular guest conductor of numerous Hungarian and foreign orchestras: Köteles claims he was selected for the post “with engineering precision: Excel tables, formulae, ballot papers and ten different parameters!” In their first performance in the newly-restored Liszt Academy, they pay homage to Rudolf Pechan died on 2 December 2013, who has been their concert master for forty years, spirit and motor of the ensemble.