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This is the Artist Database of BMC, which includes information about composers, musicians, orchestras, choirs and groups that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary, as well as information about releases recorded with them.

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Babits Antal

clarinet
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1954
Orchestra
Új Dimenzió Műhely (New Dimension Workshop)
 
Antal Babits is both a clarinetist and a composer, and a historian of philosophy. He graduated from the Péter Pázmány Theological Academy in 1986. With the help of the Soros Scholarship he made research on philosophy of religion. One of his research subjects was the Platonist and Pythagorean history of the idea „music of the spheres” and its contemporary reflections. Being the professor of the Jewish Theological Seminary – University of Jewish Studies, the editor and reader of many schoolbooks he was awarded the Scheiber Prize in 1999. He has dealt with contemporary music since 1976. He is a founding member of the Contemporary Music Workshop, and founder and leader of the New Dimensions Workshop. His work as a composer and musician is certified by the CDs: Diaspora Ethno Tours; Lament, Hommage ŕ Bartók and Kodály; Soul travel; Contra-punkt. Nowadays he plays the contrabass clarinet – the largest member of the clarinet family that has the deepest voice of all the clarinets. He realizes his artistic ideas often using the attendant arts (theatre, movie, literature and visual arts).