Background
He was born in Budapest in 1973 to bassoonist József Vajda (born 1947) and operatic soprano Veronika Kincses.
He was born in Budapest in 1973 to bassoonist József Vajda (born 1947) and operatic soprano Veronika Kincses.
After attending the Béla Bartók Secondary School, where he learned to compose and play the clarinet, he studied conducting at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with Ervin Lukács.
Conducting Vajda has been resident conductor of the Oregon Symphony, based in Portland, Oregon, since 2005. The 2012–2013 season marks his last with the orchestra. In 2008, Vajda was one of eight finalists chosen for the position of music director of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
In 2009, Vajda began serving as artistic and music director of Music in the Mountains, based in California.
More recently, Vajda was named music director and conductor of the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra in Huntsville, Alabama.