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Gilbert Varga is a British classical violinist and conductor. He is the son of Hungarian-born violinist and conductor Tibor Varga. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Juilliard School in New York.
Varga has performed as a soloist with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has also conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Orchestre de Paris.
Varga has recorded extensively for EMI, Decca, and Philips. He has also recorded for the BBC, and his recordings have been released on the Nimbus, Chandos, and Hyperion labels.
Varga has been the music director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra since 1997. He is also the artistic director of the Tibor Varga International Music Academy in Sion, Switzerland, and the artistic director of the International Tibor Varga Violin Competition.
Varga is married to the British violinist and conductor, Jane Glover. They have two children.
As of 2021, Gilbert Varga's net worth is estimated to be around $2 million.
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Conductor |
| Age |
72 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Capricorn |
| Born |
17 January 1952 |
| Birthday |
17 January |
| Birthplace |
London, England |
| Nationality |
United Kingdom |
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Gilbert Varga Net Worth
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Gilbert Varga's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Over recent seasons, Varga's reputation in North America has grown swiftly. In the 2011–2012 season he made his debut with the Houston Symphony and returned to the Philadelphia Orchestra (with Yefim Bronfman), and other orchestras, including the Indianapolis, Colorado, Utah and Nashville symphonies and the Minnesota Orchestra whom he conducts every season. Since May 2013 he is Principal Conductor of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra.
Varga works also at music competitions: From 2001 to 2012 he conducted the final rounds of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, Belgium, which is one of the most challenging and prestigious competitions for instrumentalists. Furthermore, he is chairman of the jury of the International Violin Competition Henri Marteau in Lichtenberg and Hof, Germany.
In North America he also conducted Minnesota, Kansas City Symphony, Naples Philharmonic and St Louis Symphony Orchestras, the symphony orchestras of Toronto, Milwaukee and Indianapolis, Los Angeles and St Paul Chamber Orchestras. Varga appeared twice at Aspen Music Festival. In South America, Varga appeared at Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires in the summer of 1999, returning in May 2000 during a tour of South America with the Euskadi Symphony Orchestra. He has also made successful appearances with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony. In Europe Varga has worked with most major symphony orchestras, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony and Hallé Orchestra. In 2001–2002 his engagements included Orchestre National de Belgique, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony (with whom he made a successful recording with trombonist Christian Lindberg) and performances at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.
Since that time, he was invited to conduct several European ensembles including the Munich Philharmonic, the radio orchestras of Cologne and Frankfurt and the Gurzenich Orchestra. From 1991 to 1995 he was Permanent Guest Conductor of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and from 1997 until 2000 he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and from 2001 to 2008 he was Principal Conductor of the Euskadi Symphony Orchestra (Euskadiko Orkestra Sinfonikoa).
The earlier part of his conducting career concentrated on work with many chamber orchestras throughout Germany and France including extensive work with the Tibor Varga Chamber Orchestra. From 1980 to 1985 Gilbert Varga was Chief Conductor of the Hofer Symphoniker and between 1985 and 1990 Chief Conductor of the Philharmonia Hungarica in Marl, with whom he toured throughout Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. In 1990, his final year as Music Director, he conducted their debut tour to Hungary with Yehudi Menuhin.
Gilbert Varga (born 1952, London) is a British conductor and the Principal Conductor of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra.
