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László Tömösközi,
being considered the most creative young percussionist of the Hungarian
music scene, is without any doubt one of the
outstanding and highly sought-after characters of the generation raised by Amadinda
Percussion Group. He pursues a wide range of activities as a
soloist, chamber musician, composer and arranger, appearing at several
major musical venues and festivals.
He has toured extensively
across Europe, China and Taiwan, performed at prestigious festivals like
BBC Proms, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Prague Spring, Milano Musica
Festival, Janacek May, Beijing Musicathlon, Melos Ethos Festival,
Ostrava Days, Taipei International Percussion Convention, Festival
Internacional de Musica de Espinho, March Music Days, Budapest Spring
Festival, International Bartók Seminar and Festival.
As a chamber
musician, he has appeared among others with Steve Reich, Michael
Jarrell, Bob Becker, Gordon Stout, James Wood, Olivier Latry, György
Kurtág, Péter Eötvös, Zoltán Kocsis and also performs regularly with
Amadinda Percussion Group. These artists, who he has had the chance of
working with, also served as László´s musical role models shaping his
credo as a musician.
László has wide and varied musical
interests. Besides his affinity for solo and chamber percussion music of
the 20th and 21st century, he often makes appearances with singers and
bands playing folk and world music. He acts as a constant guest musician
for theatre plays at the most distinguished Hungarian theatres, not
infrequently within the framework of performances of contemporary music
in Budapest, Berlin and Vienna. His personal commitment in the field of
contemporary music shows itself in his work in UMZE Chamber Ensemble,
Ostravska Banda and MuPaTh (Music-Performance-Art-Theatre) Company,
which he is one of the founding members of.
Following his
father´s footsteps as a drummer, the Hungarian-born musician started his
percussion studies in 1990, which he pursued under the guidance of
Aurél Holló and Zoltán Rácz, both members of the world famous Amadinda
Percussion Group. His outstanding talent soon made the apprentice a
colleague. He has fond memories of his academic years spent under the
lasting influence of Amadinda, turning him into a highly qualified and
versatile musician. In recognition of his excellence, the Liszt Academy
admitted him to its teaching faculty in the very same year he achieved
his Master's Degree.
The first accolade he won was the Second
Prize of the National Percussion Competition of Colleges in 1999. His
percussion ensemble Mondo Quartet was then awarded the Ari Kupsus
Artistic Scholarship in 2005 and the Special Prize of the Japanese
Embassy at the International Percussion Quartet Competition in
Luxembourg. He was one of the four Music Academy students who received
the Citi Scholarship awarded by Citibank for his exceptional results in
2007. As a performer, he won the Junior Talent Award at the Contemporary
Music Festival in 2009. In 2011, László Tömösközi won an Annie Fischer
Scholarship commissioned by the Hungarian Ministry of Education. Each
year, these scholarships are awarded to ten talented young musicians by a
board of distinguished experts.
László's repertoire spans from
classical transcriptions to contemporary electroacoustic compositions.
He has performed the Hungarian premieres of solo and chamber works by
composers like Edgard Varése, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, John
Cage, Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen, Tan Dun, Toshio Hosokawa, Gordon
Stout, Kevin Volans, David Lang, Anna Ignatowicz, Don Womack and John
Psathas. Moreover, he has also participated in numerous radio, TV and CD
recordings for such labels as Hungaroton, Warner Classics, BMC and Sony
Records. His most recent contribution can be heard on an album released
by Mutable Music. Titled 'Ostravska Banda On Tour 2010', it contains
percussion trios written by Petr Kotik and Bernhard Lang.
László´s yearly schedule includes about 40 concerts and 40 theatre plays.
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