Taichi Fukumura | The Cleveland Orchestra
13 October 2026 | 7.30 pm
Müpa Budapest — Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
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We regret to inform you that, due to illness, Franz Welser-Möst will be unable to join the Cleveland Orchestra on its Budapest programme.
Taking his place as conductor will be Taichi Fukumura. He is the current Assistant Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra, and also holds the position of Music Director with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. A rising Japanese American conductor acclaimed for his dynamic stage presence and musical finesse, Fukumura is the Second Prize Winner of The Mahler Competition 2023, and a four-time recipient of the Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award.
Tickets purchased previously will automatically remain valid for the concert.
#Orchestral concert
#Classical music
Ticket prices
7 500
-
28 900 HUF
We regret to inform you that, due to illness, Franz Welser-Möst will be unable to join the Cleveland Orchestra on its Budapest programme.
Taking his place as conductor will be Taichi Fukumura. He is the current Assistant Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra, and also holds the position of Music Director with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. A rising Japanese American conductor acclaimed for his dynamic stage presence and musical finesse, Fukumura is the Second Prize Winner of The Mahler Competition 2023, and a four-time recipient of the Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award.
Tickets purchased previously will automatically remain valid for the concert.
Taking his place as conductor will be Taichi Fukumura. He is the current Assistant Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra, and also holds the position of Music Director with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. A rising Japanese American conductor acclaimed for his dynamic stage presence and musical finesse, Fukumura is the Second Prize Winner of The Mahler Competition 2023, and a four-time recipient of the Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award.
Tickets purchased previously will automatically remain valid for the concert.
Liszt:
Orpheus – symphonic poem
Martinů:
Symphony No. 2
Brahms:
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
Featuring:
The Cleveland Orchestra
Conductor:
Taichi Fukumura
The Cleveland Orchestra, led by Franz Welser-Möst since 2002, has been called ‘America’s best’ by The New York Times. As its seventh Music Director, Welser-Möst followed in the footsteps of such artists as Christoph von Dohnányi, Lorin Maazel and György Széll, who led the ensemble from 1946 to 1970. The concert programme includes Martinů’s Symphony No. 2, which the composer was commissioned to write by Cleveland’s Czech community and which The Cleveland Orchestra premiered in 1943.
Since Franz Welser-Möst has been forced to cancel his appearance at the Liszt Fest, the orchestra will be led by Taichi Fukumura, the Japanese-American conductor known for his dynamic stage presence. Fukumura has been Assistant Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra since 2025 and is also Music Director of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. Born in Tokyo, he spent his childhood in Boston. He holds a Bachelor of Music in violin performance from Boston University, and went on to complete both his Master of Music and his Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in orchestral conducting at Northwestern University.
#Orchestral concert
#Classical music
Ticket prices
7 500
-
28 900 HUF
We regret to inform you that, due to illness, Franz Welser-Möst will be unable to join the Cleveland Orchestra on its Budapest programme.
Taking his place as conductor will be Taichi Fukumura. He is the current Assistant Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra, and also holds the position of Music Director with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. A rising Japanese American conductor acclaimed for his dynamic stage presence and musical finesse, Fukumura is the Second Prize Winner of The Mahler Competition 2023, and a four-time recipient of the Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award.
Tickets purchased previously will automatically remain valid for the concert.
Taking his place as conductor will be Taichi Fukumura. He is the current Assistant Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra, and also holds the position of Music Director with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. A rising Japanese American conductor acclaimed for his dynamic stage presence and musical finesse, Fukumura is the Second Prize Winner of The Mahler Competition 2023, and a four-time recipient of the Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award.
Tickets purchased previously will automatically remain valid for the concert.
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