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Amsterdam based young conductor, Huba Holloköi was finalist of the 53rd
Besancon Conducting Competition in 2013. He already conducted numerous
orchestras, including Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Kuopio Symphony Orchestra,
Joensuu and Vaasa City Orchestras, Savaria Symphony Orchestra, Westsächsisches
Symphonieorchester, Netherlands Youth Orchestra, the St. Michael Strings, the
Budapest Strings. Future engagements for the season include concerts shared with Jac
van Steen in Rotterdam and in The Haag, invitation from Glyndebourne Tour opera
(Britten: The Turn of the Screw), and the Finnish debut as an opera conductor with
Mozart’s Magic Flute.
Currently, Holloköi is completing the first year of the National Master Orchestra
Conducting program of the Royal Conservatoire of The Haag and the Conservatory of
Amsterdam. In the frame of the program, he has assisted Stefan Asbury with Noord
Netherlands Orchestra, Christoph Poppen with Het Gelders Orkest, and Kenneth
Montgomery with Irish National Orchestra and The Belfast Philharmonic.
Holloköi received his diploma in orchestra and opera conducting at the Sibelius
Academy in 2012, under Prof. Leif Segerstam and Jorma Panula. In summer 2009 he
was one of the five participants invited to the Conducting Academy of the Verbier
Festival by Kurt Masur. His teachers include Jac van Steen, Ed Spanjaard, Kenneth
Montgomery, Atso Almila, and Yuri Simonov.
Playing the violin since the age of four, he has received several prizes from notable
national and international solo and chamber music competitions. As a soloist, Holloköi
has performed throughout Hungary, England, Germany, Italy, Finland, Austria, and
Japan. In 2010 he had the honour of sharing the podium with Eiji Oue on the "NDR
Musiktag - Hannover" (Vivaldi: Seasons). He has been invited to international
festivals, including the Young Hungarian Talents in Focus in London, Herbstliche
Musiktage, Bad Urach and Helsinki's Musica Nova.
An experienced orchestral musician, he has been a member of the Finnish National
Opera Orchestra, the Helsinki City Orchestra, the Sinfonia da Camera Finlandia and
the Georg Solti Chamber Orchestra, among others. Until recently he worked as

concertmaster with Joensuu and Vaasa City Orchestras.