Ivan Fischer has been played on NTS shows including NTS Guide to…, with Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 100, BB 107 first played on 3 October 2025.

Iván Fischer (born 20 January 1951 in Budapest) is a Hungarian conductor. His father Sándor Fischer, his elder brother Adam Fischer and his cousin György Fischer were also conductors. Iván Fischer initially studied piano, violin, composition and cello. He was a conducting student of Hans Swarowsky in Vienna, where he also studied cello, and early music, studying and working as assistant to Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

In 1976, Iván Fischer won the Rupert Foundation conducting competition in London. He began thereafter to guest-conduct such British orchestras as the BBC Symphony and to the London Symphony Orchestra, with whom he conducted a world tour in 1982. His US conducting debut was with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 1983.