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Szábolcs Esztényi

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Composer, pianist, improviser and piano tutor of Hungarian descent, b. 20th December 1939 in Budapest, living in Poland since 1969. Studied piano with Margerita Trombini-Kazuro and composition with Witold Rudziński at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw, graduating in both subjects with honours degrees.
As a composer and soloist, he has performed in Poland and other countries at numerous festivals (Warsaw Autumn, Poznań Music Spring, Warsaw Music Encounters, Musica Polonica Nova in Wrocław, Łańcut Festival, The Lutosławski Forum, Festival of Polish Piano Music in Słupsk, Biennale Zagreb, Budapesti Zenei Hetek, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Piano Festival in Bergamo-Brescia, Festival d’été de Lanaudière in Quebec, Nordiske Musikdage, Recontres Internationales de Musique Contemporaine in Metz).
He has collaborated with such eminent artists as: Jerzy Artysz, Andrzej Hiolski, Heinz Holliger, Roman Jabłoński, Jadwiga Kotnowska, Wilanów Quartet, Halina Łukomska, Olga Pasiecznik, Jadwiga Rappé, Zygmunt Krauze’s Music Workshop, Jerzy Witkowski, and Iwona Mironiuk (since 1999 – in a piano duo). He has given world premiere performances of many works by Polish contemporary composers (incl. Kazimierz Serocki’s Pianophonie, Rafał Augustyn’s Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Paweł Szymański’s Études) and recorded extensively for the Polish Radio. For many years he has also worked closely with Ferenc Lantos and Mária Apagyi, pioneers of the combined music/drawing creative learning methodology and founders of the Free School of Art in Pecs, Hungary.
Since 1972 he has taught piano improvisation at the F. Chopin Secondary Music School in Warsaw and the Academies of Music in Warsaw and Łódź. Regularly invited to academic centres in Poland (Białystok, Bydgoszcz, Cieszyn, Gdańsk, Katowice, Kraków, Poznań, Wrocław) and Hungary (F. Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Dept. of Instrument Teaching, Music Academy in Debrecen, University of Pécs, Pécs Educational Centre) to give music-illustrated lectures in creative pedagogy and improvisation teaching. He conducts courses of piano improvisation for students and teachers of primary and secondary art schools. Since 1996, he has held lectures and piano improvisation workshops at the Summer Master Classes of Contemporary Piano and Vocal Music in Bystrzyca Kłodzka and Świdnica.
Szabolcs Esztényi won 1st prize in the 1st National Piano Improvisation Competition in 1968. In 1988, he received the Medal of the Polish Composers’ Union for the promotion of contemporary Polish music; in 1989 – the “Orpheus” Award of the Polish Musicians’ Association, Critics Section, for the performance of works by Tomasz Sikorski at the 32nd “Warsaw Autumn” International Festival of Contemporary Music; in 1993 – the annual Award of the Polish Composers’ Union. In 1998 he was granted the academic title of professor of musical arts. In 2009 the Polish President Lech Kaczyński decorated him with the Cavalier’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.