Szabolcs Esztényi

Szabolcs Esztényi (born December 20, 1939 in Budapest ) is a Polish composer , pianist , piano improviser and music teacher of Hungarian origin.

Esztényi came to Poland at the age of thirty and studied piano with Margerita Trombini-Kazuro and composition with Witold Rudziński at the Higher State Music School in Warsaw (today Fryderyk Chopin University for Music) . From 1972 he taught piano improvisation at the Fryderyk Chopin Music School and the Warsaw and Łódź Schools of Music. He regularly gave lectures on creative pedagogy and improvisation teaching at academic centers in Białystok, Bydgoszcz, Cieszyn, Danzig, Kattowitz, Krakow, Poznan and Wroclaw, Budapest, Debrecen and Pécs, giving improvisation courses for music teachers and pupils and since 1996 improvisation workshops and master classes for contemporary piano Bystrica Kłodzka and Swidnica. Since 1998 he has been a professor of music at the Fryderyk Chopin University .

Esztényi has participated as a pianist and composer in numerous international music festivals, including the Warsaw Autumn , the Donaueschinger Musiktage , the Piano Festival in Bergamo-Brescia and the Rencontres internationales de musique contemporaine in Metz. He played premieres of works Kazimierz Serocki (Pianophonie), Rafał Augustyns (Variations on a Theme of Paganini) and Pawel Szymanski (Études) and worked with musicians such as Jerzy Artysz , Andrzej Hiolski , Heinz Holliger , Roman Jabłoński , Jadwiga Kotnowska , Halina Lukomska , Olga Pasitschnyk , Jadwiga Rappé , Zygmunt Krauze , Jerzy Witkowski and Iwona Mironiuk together.

In 1968 he received first prize at the First National Improvisation Competition in Poland. In 1988 he received the medal of the Polish Composers' Association for his services to popularizing contemporary Polish music. For his performance of works by Tomasz Sikorski in Warsaw Autumn 1989 he received the Orfeus , the prize of the Polish Music Critics Association. In 2017 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.

Works

• Quartetto per batteria (1968)
• Concerto for tape and piano (1971)
• Znak jakości: 1, muzyka konceptualna (1972)
• Duo for two pianos (1972)
• Concertino for two pianos (1973)
• Motet for three reciters (1973-74)
• Sześć etiud for two pianos (1979)
• Muzyka kreowana nr 1 in memoriam Andrzej Bieżan for piano (1987)
• Muzyka kreowana nr 3 in memoriam Tomasz Sikorski for piano (1989)
• Muzyka kreowana nr 4 in memoriam 1956 for piano and tape (1990)
• Muzyka kreowana nr 5 for piano (1995)
• Bramy ogrodu for two pianos (1999)
• Dedykacja for two pianos (2002)
• Trzy nowe etiudy for two pianos (2003)
• Muzyka do przedstawienia poetycko-literackiego O ćwierć wyżej for piano (2003)
• Bez tytułu for piano (2005)
• Toccata for two pianos (2006)
• Muzyka kreowana pamięci prof. A. Karużasa for piano (2007)
• Spojrzenie z oddali for alto and two pianos (2007)

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• Szábolcs Esztényi on Culture.pl
• prof. dr got Szabolcs Esztényi, em. Fryderyk Chopin University of Music