What is Zoltán Peskó?
[[File:Zoltán-Peskó nel suo camerino al Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo 11-1-2006.jpg|thumb|upright|Zoltán Peskó in 2006]] '''Zoltán Peskó''' (15 February 1937 &ndash; 31 March 2020) was a Hungarian conductor and composer. Peskó was born in [[Budapest]]. He studied at the [[Franz Liszt Academy of Music]] with [[Goffredo Petrassi]] and [[Franco Ferrara]], as well as with [[Pierre Boulez]] in [[Switzerland]] in the 1960s. He became an assistant under [[Lorin Maazel]] at the [[German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin]]. Peskó was chief conductor of the {{ill|Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa|pt}}, the orchestra of the [[Teatro Nacional de São Carlos]] in Lisbon, from 2001 to 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musica.gulbenkian.pt/cgi-bin/wnp_db_dynamic_record.pl?dn=db_musica_bios_pt&sn=musica&orn=516|title=Zoltán Peskó (Maestro Titular)|access-date=April 30, 2013|language=pt|archive-date=November 10, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110161710/http://www.musica.gulbenkian.pt/cgi-bin/wnp_db_dynamic_record.pl?dn=db_musica_bios_pt&sn=musica&orn=516|url-status=dead}}</ref> Peskó died on 31 March 2020 at age of 85.<ref>[https://fidelio.hu/klasszikus/elhunyt-pesko-zoltan-vilaghiru-magyar-karmester-154174.html Elhunyt Peskó Zoltán világhírű magyar karmester] {{in lang|hu}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pesko, Zoltan}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Hungarian conductors]] [[Category:Hungarian composers]] [[Category:People from Budapest]] {{bio-stub}}