Miklós Csemiczky

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Miklós Csemiczky (born March 16, 1954 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian composer and music teacher.

From 1973 to 1977 Csemiczky studied composition with Miklós Kocsár at the Béla Bartók Music School and then in 1982 at the Franz Liszt Music Academy with Rezső Sugár and Emil Petrovics , graduating as a music teacher and composer. He then taught music theory and solfeggio at the Conservatory and music theory, counterpoint and instrumental studies at the Béla Bartók Music School. From 1991 to 1992 he was a teacher of instrumentation and composition at the Franz Liszt Music Academy, and since 1999 he has been professor of counterpoint and composition at the University of Miskolc .

Csemiczky composed both choral and instrumental works. At the international composers' competition of the Spring Festival in Budapest in 1982 he won first prize with a string quartet, and the following year he again received first prize for a wind quintet at the same competition. In 1996 he took part in the International Choral Festival of Cork with a commissioned work . For many years he was active in the direction and jury as well as a guest composer at the International Béla Bartók Choir Competition in Debrecen. He was awarded the Ferenc Erkel Prize in 1986 and the Bartók Pásztory Prize in 1996.

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