Dobsa Sándor
piano
Place of Birth
Szeged
Date of Birth
1934
10 January 1934 Szeged – 25 May 2005 Budapest
Jazz pianist, composer, arranger, founder and leader of Studio 11.
He started to play the piano at the age of six. In 1953 he was accepted to the piano department of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. He graduated in 1958 as pupil of Béla Ambrózy. After finishing his studies he was pianist of the Dance Ensemble of the Hungarian Radio for four years, and then with his music partners he founded Studio 11 in 1963. The ensemble played high quality pop music. Until his retirement in 1980, the co-leader of the band was the trumpet player Imre Zsoldos, and later, for about 25 years, Sándor Dobsa managed Studio 11 alone.
Throughout his career he contributed to the recording of hundreds of music albums, instrumentated thousands of songs, wrote about 150 own compositions (mainly songs, chansons and character pieces). He composed soundtracks as well – one example is the music of the movie „Football of the good old days”. As musician-actor he appeared in some movie films, like "Mici néni két élete" („Two lives of Aunt Mici” - directed by Frigyes Mamcserov) and „Being Julia” (directed by István Szabó). He worked at the Hungarian Television and at the Film Studio, too.
He was awarded with the Small Cross of Merit of Order of the Hungarian Republic (1996), the eMeRTon Honorary Prize (1998) and the Outstanding Performer Award of the Artisjus Music Foundation (1999)
Jazz pianist, composer, arranger, founder and leader of Studio 11.
He started to play the piano at the age of six. In 1953 he was accepted to the piano department of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. He graduated in 1958 as pupil of Béla Ambrózy. After finishing his studies he was pianist of the Dance Ensemble of the Hungarian Radio for four years, and then with his music partners he founded Studio 11 in 1963. The ensemble played high quality pop music. Until his retirement in 1980, the co-leader of the band was the trumpet player Imre Zsoldos, and later, for about 25 years, Sándor Dobsa managed Studio 11 alone.
Throughout his career he contributed to the recording of hundreds of music albums, instrumentated thousands of songs, wrote about 150 own compositions (mainly songs, chansons and character pieces). He composed soundtracks as well – one example is the music of the movie „Football of the good old days”. As musician-actor he appeared in some movie films, like "Mici néni két élete" („Two lives of Aunt Mici” - directed by Frigyes Mamcserov) and „Being Julia” (directed by István Szabó). He worked at the Hungarian Television and at the Film Studio, too.
He was awarded with the Small Cross of Merit of Order of the Hungarian Republic (1996), the eMeRTon Honorary Prize (1998) and the Outstanding Performer Award of the Artisjus Music Foundation (1999)
| Year | Title | Publisher | Code | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Stúdió 11 | Qualiton | EP 7352 | LP |
| 2015 | Lajos Dudas - Radio Days - Birthday Edition 75 | JazzSick Records | 5089-JS |