FRIGYES HIDAS COMPOSER:
Frigyes Hidas was born in Budapest in 1928. He studied composition at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music with János Visky. For fifteen years he was music director of the National Theatre (1951-1966) and between 1974 and 1979 he performed the same function at the municipal Operetta Theatre. Since leaving that institution, he has been working as a free-lance composer. Hidas is a highly prolific composer who firmly believes in melodies and harmonies in the traditional sense of those terms and always writes in an easily accessible idiom. His oeuvre covers the entire gamut of genres: operas, ballets, concertos, orchestral, chamber, solo and choral music. Hidas has been repeatedly commissioned by ballet companies, the State Opera House, radio stations, universities and various musical societies.

LUTE HOEKSTRA CONDUCTOR:
After several successful concerts as guest conductor, Lute Hoekstra became the principal conductor of the Delphi Ensemble in September 2000. Lute Hoekstra studied clarinet a