Marton Illés

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Márton Illés [ ˈmaːrton ˈilːeːʃ ] (born December 12, 1975 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian concert pianist , composer and conductor.

education and study

Illés received his basic musical training between 1981 and 1994 in the subjects of piano, composition and drums at music institutes in Győr . In 1993 he spent a guest semester at the Zurich Conservatory in Hadassa Schwimmer's piano class .

He studied piano with László Gyimesi at the Music Academy of the City of Basel and graduated in 1998 with a soloist diploma. He then continued his pianistic training with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling in Hanover. During this time he worked as a soloist, chamber musician, accompanist and orchestral pianist for the Basel Symphony Orchestra .

1997 to 2001 Illés studied composition with Detlev Müller-Siemens in Basel, then from 2001 to 2005 in the composition class of Wolfgang Rihm as well as music theory with Michael Reudenbach and electroacoustic composition with Thomas A. Troge at the Karlsruhe University of Music , where he lectured in 2005 for music theory received.

Composition work

After Márton Illés received the Hungarian Television Composition Prize at the age of sixteen and his first commission for the Győr Percussion Ensemble at the age of eighteen, he has carried out a number of commissioned compositions for music festivals and institutions in recent years. These included the following orders:

  • the Basel Music Credit Commission for the European Music Month Festival (“Ballet Music”, premiered in 2001 by Ensemble Phoenix).
  • of the Klangspuren Festival in Austria (string quartet Scene Polidimensionali IX. “Vonalmezők” premiered in 2004 by the Minguet Quartet).
  • the Rundfunk-Orchester und -Chöre gGmbH Berlin (Scene P. VII. “Szintek”, premiered in 2004 in the Berlin Philharmonie by the Chamber Ensemble of the German and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra).
  • of the Heidelberger Frühling festival (Scene PX “Vonalterek” for clarinet, piano and viola, premier 2004 with Jörg Widmann and Hanna Weinmeister ).
  • of the Kasseler Musiktage for a chamber ensemble work (2005).
  • the Thuringian Symphony Orchestra for an orchestral piece (premier 2006).
  • of the Hungarian Radio for the “Hommage à Bartók” festival in Budapest (Scene P. XIV. “tördelt vonalak” for wind ensemble UA 2006 by the Componensemble Budapest).

In 2003 the Südwestrundfunk presented him in a film and in 2004 the SWR2 presented him in a radio portrait. In 2004 the Ensemble Modern premiered the ensemble piece Scene P. IX "Szintek b", which belongs to the Scene Polidimensionali , in Frankfurt and on the Hessischer Rundfunk . In 2004, his chamber oratorio, composed on an Andalusian-Arabic text, was played in the Cairo Opera and the Liederhalle Stuttgart. For 2007, Márton Illés received composition commissions from the SWR, for the Witten Days for New Chamber Music and for the Kassel Music Days.

Illés' works are regularly performed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, England, Hungary, Egypt, Brazil and Greenland at renowned festivals and concert series. He is himself an active interpreter and conductor of his works.

Scholarships and master classes

Márton Illés was a scholarship holder of the Géza Anda Foundation Zurich, the Robert and Lina Thyll Dürr and Hans J. Rapp Foundations in Basel, the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of the Südwestrundfunks and attended master classes for piano and Composition with György Sándor , Lazar Berman , György Ligeti , György Kurtág and Helmut Lachenmann . In 2009 he received a scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome.

Honourings and prices

In the 1990s, Márton Illés won numerous prizes in various piano competitions, including:

  • First prize in the piano competition “Rencontres Musicales de la Venoge” in Lausanne
  • Second prize at the international piano competition "Premi ciudad de Berga" in Spain

He was also the winner of the Yamaha-Switzerland piano competition and the “Concours Piano 80”. In 2005 he received the “Christoph and Stephan Kaske Composition Prize” in Munich.

In 2008 Illés received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize as well as the Schneider Schott Music Prize Mainz and the Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival . At the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2017 he won the SWR Symphony Orchestra's prize for his composition Ez-tér .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Villa Massimo | Marton Illés. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Balance of the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2017 . In: SWR Aktuell . October 23, 2017 ( swr.de [accessed October 25, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Illés, Marton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian concert pianist, composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH December 12th 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary