Vajda will replace Paul Perry, Music in the Mountains' founder.
Vajda is now spending some of his summer at the Bartók Festival in the Hungarian city of Szombathely, where he is working in a master course with the composer Péter Eötvös and Hungarian State Opera Artistic Director Balázs Kovalik on Bartók's opera Bluebeard's Castle.
Vajda, the son of two professional musicians, the soprano Veronika Kincses and the oboe player József Vajda, was assistant conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, musical director of the Új Színház in Budapest, an organiser of the Valley of the Arts festival, guest conductor of the Hungarian State Opera House, member of the Forrás Chamber Music Workshop, artistic director of the Brass in the Five group, second conductor of the Budafoki Dohnányi Ernő Symphonic Orchestra, and a clarinetist in the Liszt Chamber Orchestra and the Austrian-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra.
He has held the baton at the Round Top Music Festival in Texas, the Mostly Mozart Festival and the Naumburg Concerts in New York, the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago, the Le Lanaudiére in Canada, the Centre Achantes in France, the Ars Musica in Brussels, the Beinnale of Zagreb and the Budapest spring and autumn festivals.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
