Zoltán Peskó, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Zoltán Peskó

Hungarian conductor

Date of Birth: 15-Feb-1937

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Profession: composer, conductor

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Zoltán Peskó (born 15 February 1937 in Budapest) is a Hungarian conductor and composer. He attended the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, and studied under 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.More recently, Peskó served as chief conductor of the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2004.