Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music; percussion

1968-1971: Franz Liszt Academy of Music; Conducting and Music theory – professor: András Kórodi

1971: Master class of Franco Ferrara, Italy

 

He has been teaching at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music since 1974. He started to teach orchestral practice; since 1982, he has been teaching at the Solo Singing sub-department and at the Piano department, and since 2005, at the Repetiteur sub-department.

 

INVITED LECTURER, MASTER CLASSES:

2000-2007: He leads an international summer music camp in Enese (Hungary), organised by IAM (Kassel)

2000-2003: He regularly gave lectures at the István Bocskai Open University

 

1960-1969: Hungarian State Orchestra, leader timpanist

1969: Hungarian State Opera – repetiteur, then conductor; 1990-1993: chief conductor

1987-1996: Chief conductor of Hungarian Post Symphony Orchestra (now Concerto Budapest)

Since 1997: First conductor of the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra

 

He has performed in almost all the countries of Europe, toured around the Far-East, and conducted in the USA as well twice.

 

1974: Hungarian Television – 1^st International Conductors' Competition: 2^nd place

1976: Liszt Prize

1988: Meritorious Artist

2003: Bartók-Pásztory Prize

2004: Life Member of the Hungarian State Opera

2008: Alternative Kossuth Prize

2011: Kossuth Prize