Tamas Ungvary

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Tamas Ungvary (* 1936 in Kalocsa ) is a Hungarian-Swedish conductor, composer and music teacher.

Ungvary studied piano, violin and cello and was a member of the Hungarian State Philharmonic from 1957 to 1967. He trained as a conductor with Dean Dixon and Albert Simon and from 1964 to 1969 with Gerhard Wimberger at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He conducted the Hungarian Youth Orchestra and went to Sweden in 1969, where he continued his activity as a conductor.

He has specialized in electroacoustic and computer music since the early 1970s and between 1972 and 1995 was active as composer in residence , studio assistant, lecturer, software manager and artistic director at Stiftelsen - Acoustic Music in Sweden (EMS). In 1985 he founded the Kineto Auditory Communication Research (KACOR) at the Stockholm Dance School together with the choreographer Peter Rajka . From 1989 he taught at the Royal Technical University (KTH) in Stockholm. From 1991 to 2001 he directed the computer music and new media course at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

As a composer, Ungvary is influenced by György Ligeti , Iannis Xenakis and Jan W. Morthenson . With his works he had several successes at the ISCM World Music Days . He received first prize at the NEWCOMP competition for computer music in Boston in 1987, and won other prizes in Bourges (France) and at the 1994 Ars Electronica in Linz. From 1989 he was the first European board member of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA).

Works

  • Seul , 1972
  • Basic Barrier , 1973
  • Lonely's Dream , 1974
  • Interaction No.2 for organ and tape, 1979
  • L'aube des flammes , 1984
  • Gipsy children's giant dance with Ili Fourier , 1986
  • GRATTIS med Epilog , 1994
  • Hågkomster (Recollection No 1) , 1992-96

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personal data
SURNAME Ungvary, Tamas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Swedish conductor, composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalocsa