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Ivan Törzs
Ivan Törzs is an American conductor and pianist educated at Princeton University, Mannes College of Music, and the Juilliard School.
He worked as a pianist and conductor in Charleston, Spoleto and Santa Fe before moving to Germany in 1985.
In Germany he conducted in Darmstadt, Hamburg and Karlsruhe. In 1993 he became principal conductor of the Mecklenburgische Staatsoper Schwerin. From 1999 until the summer of 2002 he was also artistic director there. Highlights of his tenure included performances of "Otello" and "Tannhäuser"
that Moser could sing with a "finely controlled" legato."
After retiring from opera, Moser remained active as a recitalist during the late 1990s. She gave several concerts in Germany with Ivan Törzs at the piano (Dresden, Semperoper 1997, 1999) with programs ranging from Johann Adolph Hasse to Clara Schumann and Richard Strauss. She gave her farewell performance in Munich in 1999 at the Cuvilliés Theatre.
Edda Moser is involved in promoting the use of proper German instead of Denglisch. In 2006 she founded the yearly