Hungarian conductor Martin Rajna has been appointed Music Director of the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra. He will succeed Gustavo Gimeno. At 29, he will be the orchestra’s youngest music director.
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At the young age of 27, Martin Rajna has been appointed Chief Conductor of the Hungarian State Opera in 2023. As Chief Conductor of the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra, he also appears regularly as a guest conductor with other leading symphony orchestras in Hungary, as well as with several orchestras throughout Europe.
Rajna’s awards include a scholarship to participate in the Forum Dirgieren programme of the German Music Council in 2022, and he was also selected for the Conducting Fellowship of the Lucerne Festival Academy, where his mentor was Thomas Adés. In 2018 he won Hungary’s Junior Prima Award, and most recently in 2023 he was the winner of the György Cziffra Festival Talent Prize.
Martin Rajna graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He also studied at the Liszt School of Music in Weimar. In 2021 he was selected to participate in the mentoring programme of the Peter Eötvös Foundation for Contemporary Music, where he worked with masters such as Péter Eötvös, György Kurtág, Fabián Panisello and Magnus Lindberg. Since 2023 he has been assistant conductor to Ádám Fischer at the annual Budapest Wagner Festival.
