My story

Born in Lugano (CH) of Hungarian parents, my desire to become a musician was revealed at an early age. As a child, I couldn't choose between the 2 instruments I was learning, and this situation hasn't left me to this day. 

From the very beginning of my studies, fundamental questions have fuelled my activities: ‘Why do we need art?’ or ‘Why create?  Today, as in the past, I continue to search for answers to these questions linked to the human creative nature.

After years of study in my home town, I obtained a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Music as a violinist in Zurich (1994), Basel (1998) and Budapest (1996). However, my passion for improvisation and composition has stayed with me throughout these years: jazz and improvised music have literally overturned the concept of music I was brought up with.

After my studies and incredible international tours with the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester with conductors such as Abbado, Boulez and Haitink (1994-1997), I became a member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (1998), now a famous European orchestra, a great source of inspiration and experience for me. In 2002 I became a member of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, then conducted by Christian Zacharias, now conducted by Renaud Capuçon, and I settled in French-speaking Switzerland.

Since then, composing and arranging have become more important in my life as a musician: my first public success was the children's story ‘Janko le p'tit haricot’ for string quartet and narrator (2015), created and commissioned by the Pacific Quartet Vienna. Over the years, a number of chamber music works have emerged (duets, string quartet, pieces for solo piano), and other orchestral arrangement commissions have followed for the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne: ‘Les yeux noirs’ (2011), ‘L'alouette’ (2018) and ‘Les danse de Galànta’ (2019). 

With the group Prisma Latino (2007-2017), I literally immersed myself in the music of Latin America and forged my experience as an arranger, collaborating with musicians from the oral tradition of their countries.

This was followed by two albums of improvised jazz compositions (‘Speranza’ 2017 and ‘Home’ 2021), which bear witness to my continuing passion for this genre.

In 2021 I was commissioned to write a concerto for violin and orchestra, which will become the Chamber Jazz Concerto, a 30-minute work in which the symphonic concerto genre meets that of improvised music in a dialogue between a jazz trio, the violin soloist and a classical orchestra. The concerto will be premiered in 2022 by the Russian violinist Diana Pasko, who commissioned the work. 

New performances of the Chamber Jazz concerto is scheduled for 2026 in Renaud Capuçon's interpretation at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.