Pannon Philharmonic

Dániel Somogyi-Tóth is the musical director and conductor of the Csokonai Theatre and the director and artistic leader of the Kodály Filharmónia (Philharmonics) of Debrecen. He was born in 1981 in Budapest; studied piano and composition at Béla Bartók Conservatory; graduated from the conductor and organist faculty of Franz Liszt Academy of Music, as a pupil of  Tamás Gál and Gábor Lehotka, in 2006. Since December 2007, he has been the artistic director and conductor of the Békés County Symphony Orchestra, with whom he received a Príma Award in November 2008. Since January 2009, he is the Budapest permanent guest conductor of the Budapest Operetta Theatre and  from 2010, also the opera conductor of the National Theatre of Pécs. Before his conducting career, he had been the organist and cembalist of the Hungarian Telekom Symphony Orchestra and András Ligeti music director's assistant for years. As an orchestra member, as an organist or as a conductor, he has performed in many European cities, and has worked with such world-renowned artists as Nigel Kennedy, Sir Neville Marriner, Yuri Simonov, Erika Miklósa, Laurent Petitgirard, or Bobby McFerrin.