György Vukán
György Vukán (born August 21, 1941 in Budapest ; † August 12, 2013 in Agárd ; also George Vukán ) was a Hungarian composer , pianist and jazz musician.
Life
György Vukán graduated from the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest in 1959 as a classical pianist . He then studied dentistry until 1964.
He worked in various formations with musicians such as Philly Joe Jones , Clifford Jordan , Linda Hopkins , Annette Lowman , Frank Foster , Clark Terry and Kenny Wheeler . From 1985 to 1991 he was director and composer of the Creative Art Ensemble , then of the Creative Art Trio , which, in addition to Vukán, includes bassist Balázs Berkes and drummer Elemér Balázs . The trio performed at festivals a. a. with Kai Winding , Art Farmer and Stéphane Belmondo and gave five concerts at the 1992 World Exhibition in Seville . The trio played drama, film and radio drama music and recorded more than twenty albums.
In 1999 he founded the ClassJazzBand with Eszter Horgas , with which he published several cross-over albums and took part in ballet productions. In 2002, Giacomo Puccini's first crossover opera production was La Boheme at the Miskolc Opera Festival .
Vukán composed more than 130 film scores, two of which were nominated for an Oscar , eighty songs (among others based on Federico García Lorca and Pablo Neruda ), a setting of all 150 psalms for choir a cappella, several ballet music, an opera, instrumental concerts and symphonic works.
His ballet Derby was on the program of the Hungarian State Opera for more than three years. In 1989 he composed a mass that he dedicated to Pope John Paul II on the occasion of his 1991 visit to Hungary. In 2000 his opera Black Advent was premiered at the Hungarian State Opera . In 2005, in collaboration with the choreographer Béla Földy and the Budapest Dance Theater, the production The Rhythm of the Blood was created , for which Vukán wrote crossover arrangements of compositions by Gershwin , Bach and Chopin and played with Eszter Horgas.
Web links
- György Vukán's homepage
- Vukán György at BMC ( Hungarian )
- Literature by and about György Vukán in the catalog of the German National Library
- György Vukan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vukán, György |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vukan, George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian pianist, composer and jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 2013 |
| Place of death | Agard |