The New York Philharmonic was founded in 1842 and is one of the oldest symphonic orchestras in the world. Every year they give around one hundred and eighty concerts and in December 2004 gave their fourteen thousandth ever recital – no orchestra anywhere can match that statistic. Since 1917, they have made close on two thousand recordings, of which five hundred are still obtainable today. Lorin Maazel first conducted the orchestra at the age of 12 (yes, twelve!) and has worked as a guest cond...uctor over a hundred times. In 2002, he accepted the post of music director, following the footsteps of such illustrious predecessors as Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Zubin Mehta and Kurt Masur. He is one of the great living conductors and in his seventy seven years, he has conducted some hundred and fifty orchestras in some five thousand concerts and opera performances. Glenn Dicterow has been concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic since 1980 and is also a professor at the Juilliard School. He is also a busy soloist. He performed the Tchaikovsky concerto at the age of eleven with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where his father was a member for close on fifty years. Carter Brey has been principal cellist of the orchestra for the last ten years and in 1997 performed the Tchaikovsky Rococo variations as soloist with conductor Kurt Masur. When Masur retired as music director in 2002, Brey and Dicterow also performed the Brahms Double concerto in A minor (the composer’s last orchestral work, written in 1887) at Masur’s farewell concert series.
Parking information
We wish to inform you that in the event that Müpa Budapest's underground garage and outdoor car park are operating at full capacity, it is advisable to plan for increased waiting times when you arrive. In order to avoid this, we recommend that you depart for our events in time, so that you you can find the ideal parking spot quickly and smoothly and arrive for our performance in comfort. The Müpa Budapest underground garage gates will be operated by an automatic number plate recognition system. Parking is free of charge for visitors with tickets to any of our paid performances on that given day. The detailed parking policy of Müpa Budapest is available here.
Safe ticket purchase
Dear Visitors, please note that only tickets purchased from the Müpa website and official ticket offices are guaranteed to be valid. To avoid possible inconvenience, we suggest buying tickets to our performances and concerts via the mupa.hu website, the Interticket national network (jegy.hu) or at our official ticket offices.