Miklós Lukács

Miklós Lukács (born January 9, 1977 in Törökszentmiklós ) is a Hungarian player of the cimbalom , who has emerged in both classical and jazz .

Live and act

Lukács received music lessons from early childhood, later at the Béla Bartók Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Music Academy . In classical music, he interpreted the Hungarian rhapsodies by Franz Liszt , but also works that Péter Eötvös composed for the cimbalom, with numerous internationally renowned orchestras, including the Orchester de la Suisse Romande , the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra and the Warsaw musicians Philharmonic or the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg .

As a jazz musician, he played in Mihály Dresch's quartet , the East Side Jazz Company , the Elemér Balázs Group and other Hungarian combos before founding his own quintet in 2006. He has also performed with Charles Lloyd ( Wild Man Dance ), Archie Shepp , Chris Potter , Steve Coleman , Herbie Mann , Uri Caine and Chico Freeman . He is also a member of Michael Schiefel's Platypus Trio , with whom he also presented an album in 2014. With Viktor Tóth and the bass player György Orbán he formed the Tóth Viktor Arura Trió .

He has given concerts at the Yehudi Menuhin Festival and the Warsaw Autumn as well as at the London Jazz Festival , the Moers Festival and the jazz festivals in Ljubljana and Cork.

Lukács has also emerged as a composer and has written chamber music works as well as theater music. Since 2001 he has taught Talentum at the dance and music school; since 2011 he has been working at the Snétberger Music Talent Center .

Discographic notes

Mihály Borbély Quartet: Meselia Hill (2004)
Béla Szakcsi Lakatos / Miklós Lukács: Check It Out, Igor (2005)
Fellegajtó (2005, with Irén Lovász , Zoltán Mizsei, Balázs Szokolay Dongó, Zoltán Farkas, Csaba Gyulai)
East Side Jazz Company: Fata Morgana (2006, with István Elek, Ágnes Lakatos , Mihály György, Tibor Csuhaj Barna, György Jeszenszky)
Mitsoura : Dura Dura (2008)
Dresch Quartet: Ritka madár (2009)
Miklós Lukács - Kálmán Balogh: Cimbalomduó - Négykezes cimbalomra (2009)
Ozone featuring Miklós Lukács: This Is C'est La Vie (2010, with Christophe Monniot , Emil Spányi , Joe Quitzke )
Miklós Lukács, Michael Schiefel, Carsten Daerr , Mátyás Szandai : Gondellied in the Sahara (2010)
Miklós Lukács, Trio Braam deJoode Vatcher , Ferenc Kovács: Quintet (2010)
Mihály Borbély Balkan Jazz Project, feat. Theodosii Spassov : Live at Fonó (2011)
Cimbalom Concertos (2012)
Grzegorz Karnas Trio feat. Lukács Miklós: Audio Beads (2012, with Adam Oleś, Michał Miśkiewicz )
Mihály Dresch - Miklós Lukács: Labirintus (2013)
Miklós Lukács, Larry Grenadier , Eric Harland : Cimbalom Unlimited (BMC, 2016)
Mátyás Szandai, Mathias Lévy, Miklós Lukács: Bartók Impressions (BMC, 2018)
Lukács Miklós-Cimbiózis 5tet: Lux et Umbra (Fonó Records, 2018)

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personal data
SURNAME	Lukács, Miklós
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian zymbalon player (jazz, classical) and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 9, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH	Törökszentmiklós