Gábor Winand

Gábor Winand (* 1964 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian jazz musician ( vocals , piano , saxophone , flute ) who initially made a career as a jazz singer.

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Winand received classical music lessons on the clarinet from the age of eight. Later saxophone and flute were added. Then he wanted to be an opera singer. At the age of 18 he came to jazz through recordings by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong . In 1983 the Franz Liszt Music Academy accepted him in his hometown, where he studied jazz singing .

Winand sang in the animated film Cat City (1986). After completing his studies, Gyula Babos brought him into his band. Then belonged to the group Captive Dreamer , with whom he presented an album of the same name in 1989. After he met Gábor Gadó in 1990 , he began to work with his band Joy , with whom he performed successfully at many festivals. Then he worked as a guest with the Trio Stendal ( Kornél Horváth , Ferenc Snétberger and László Dés ) and in 1992 released the resulting album Something Happened . With the group Quartet led by George Vukán , to which Elemér Balázs and Viktor Hárs belonged, Twenty Love Poems & a Song of Despair was composed in 1997 based on poems by Pablo Neruda . Since 2002 he has released albums under his own name. His first solo album Corners of My Mind won the Choc de l'année of the French specialist magazine Jazzman in 2002 . He can also be heard on albums by Kati Bontovics, Gábor Gadó, Kornél Horváth, Erogén Zóna , Sterbinszky, Eszter Horgas / György Vukán & ClassJazzBand, Elemér Balázs / Charlie Mariano , Gergő Borlai , Tam de Villiers and Gyula Babos ( Makrokozmosz) , 2016 .

Discographic notes

Corners of My Mind ( Budapest Music Center 2002)
Agent Spiritual (Budapest Music Center 2003)
Different Garden (Budapest Music Center 2004)
Gábor Winand with the Gábor Gadó Quartet Opera Budapest (Budapest Music Center 2005)
Gábor Winand - Ramón Valle - Eric Vloeimans Fabulas (Budapest Music Center 2009)
Elsa Valle, Winand Gábor Ad Libitum (2018)
About Me (2019)

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personal data
SURNAME	Winand, Gábor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian jazz musician (vocals, piano, saxophone, flute)
DATE OF BIRTH	1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest