Viktor Tóth

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Viktor Tóth (born May 19, 1977 in Kiskunhalas ) is a Hungarian jazz musician ( alto saxophone , composition ).

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Tóth began studying music at the age of 14. The encounter with the saxophonist Ákos Molnár at the time when he preferred music to architecture was formative. In the late 1990s he was a member of several Hungarian formations. In 1998 he was accepted into the jazz department of the Franz Liszt Music Academy , which he graduated in 2003 with excellent results. During this time he formed his first trio with Zoltán Oláh and András Mohay , then his first quartet formation with Gábor Cseke, Mátyás Szandai and András Mohay.

Tóth's debut album Tercett was released in 2005. On BMC followed the album Climbing with Mountains (2007) - with Hamid Drake and Mátyás Szandai - the same year he was elected to Hungary to jazz musician of the year. With a similar cast he released Tartim (2009), followed by Popping Bopping (2011, with Bart Maris ). In 2013 he founded the Tóth Viktor Arura Trió with an unusual line-up (with Miklós Lukács on cimbalom and György Orbán on double bass) , which in the following year published the album Szemed Kincse / The Present , which was voted jazz album of the year by Hungarian critics in 2015 . In 2015 he recorded the album Viktor Tóth & Mahasimbadavi Players with the rapper Simple One . In 2017, the album But Inside followed with his Tercett, reinforced by Gareth Williams . He also runs a saxophone quartet Road Six Sax and a jazz hip-hop project, Bird Food Market .

Tóth has also performed in concerts with Imre Kőszegi , Gyula Babos , Attila László , Béla Szakcsi Lakatos , Mihály Dresch , Kálmán Oláh or Ferenc Kovács , but also with William Parker , Henry Franklin , Leena Conquest, Peter Finch , Arnie Somogifford , Winston , Tim Giles , John Betsch and Eric Allen. He can also be heard on albums with Michael Schiefel / Cool Runnings Orchestra , Djabe , Tamás Berki and Piotr Wojtasik .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The melancholy of the alto saxophone (Jazzzeitung)
  2. ↑ Viktor Tóth & Mahasimbadavi Players (review)
personal data
SURNAME Tóth, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian jazz musician (alto saxophone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiskunhalas