指揮者： ガボール・タカーチ＝ナジ Gabor Takacs-Nagy
Gabor Takacs-Nagy (born 17 April 1956, Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian violinist and conductor.
He began violin studies at age 8. He attended the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, where he was a winner of the Jeno Hubay prize. His teachers at the Liszt Academy included Ferenc Rados, Andras Mihaly, and Gyorgy Kurtag.
In 1975, Takacs-Nagy, Karoly Schranz, Gabor Ormai and Andras Fejer founded the Takacs Quartet. The quartet recorded for the Hungaroton and Decca labels. Takacs-Nagy left the ensemble in 1992, after he had developed hand stress, which forced him to stop playing the violin, and personal tensions arose within the quartet after their emigration from Hungary to the United States. Following his departure from the quartet, he underwent musical therapy and resumed playing the violin.
In 1996, Takacs-Nagy founded the Takacs Piano Trio with Denes Varjon (piano) and Peter Szabo (cello). He also became concertmaster of the Budapest Festival Orchestra. In 1997, he joined the faculty of the Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve as Professor of String Quartet. In 1998, he established the Mikrokosmos String Quartet with Zoltan Tuska (second violin), Sandor Papp (viola) and Miklos Perenyi (cello).
Takacs-Nagy also began to develop an interest in conducting. In 2005, he formed the string orchestra Camerata Bellerive, as a resident ensemble at the Festival de Bellerive in Geneva, where he has served as co-artistic director. In 2007, he became Music Director of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, as well as principal guest conductor of the Hungarian State Symphony and of the MAV Symphony Orchestra. In September 2010, he became chief conductor and artistic director of the MAV Symphony Orchestra. He became principal guest conductor of the Budapest Festival Orchestra effective with the 2012-2013 season.
In March 2010, the Manchester Camerata announced the appointment of Takacs-Nagy as its fifth principal conductor, effective with the 2011-2012 season, with an initial contract of 3 years, leading 12 concerts per year. He has recorded with the Manchester Camerata commercially for the Avie label. He became a principal artistic partner of the Irish Chamber Orchestra in January 2013.
Takacs-Nagy has held the International Chair in Chamber Music at the Royal Northern College of Music. He married Lesley de Senger (nee Townson), a native of Burnley, in 1991. They have two daughters.