What is FBFO?
The FBFO was formed to support the Orchestra’s work in the USA and across the world.
Supporters of the Foundation raise public awareness and financial support for the BFO and have the opportunity to build a closer relationship with the Orchestra both in the States and at home in Budapest.
The Orchestra
The Budapest Festival Orchestra is one of the international music scene’s major success stories, being rated among the top ten orchestras in the world.
Its key figure is Music Director Iván Fischer who was one of the Orchestra’s founding fathers. The BFO’s unique system works to encourage the artistic qualities of its musicians to blend together, forming an exquisitely homogenous orchestral sound.
Both audience and critics alike acknowledge the quality in the ensemble’s captivating chamber music performances, as well as the all-pervasive dynamism with which it shares the joy of music-making with the audience.
The orchestra is a regular guest at the world’s most important music venues and concert halls, including Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center in New York, Vienna’s Musikverein, the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and London’s Royal Albert Hall. They have repeatedly been invited to perform at international music events such as the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Salzburger Festspiele or the Edinburgh International Festival.
Iván Fischer
Iván Fischer is the Music Director and a founder of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, while also fulfilling the role of Music Director at Berlin’s Konzerthaus and Konzerthausorchester.
His thirty-year-long partnership with the Budapest Festival Orchestra is one of the greatest success stories on the classical music scene. The BFO’s frequent worldwide tours as well as a series of critically-acclaimed and fast-selling records, released first by Philips Classics and later by Channel Classics, have contributed to Iván Fischer’s reputation as one of the world’s most successful orchestral directors.
