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Péter Zombola (1983) began music at the age of six, studying piano and clarinet. Later he learnt solfeggio and composition, from 1997 at the Béla Bartók Conservatory as a pupil of Miklós Kocsár and Miklós Csemiczky. At the Music Academy he graduated with honours in composition (2006) as a student of György Orbán, Zoltán Jeney and Balázs Horváth and in music theory (2007) as a student of Katalin Komlós.

He participated in the International Bartók Seminar (2002) in Szombathely, the course of the International Summer Academy Vienna – Prague – Budapest (2004), the Ostrava Days 2005 New Music Festival (with Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Louis Andriessen, Phill Niblock, Zsolt Nagy and Petr Kotik), and in the Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam in 2006.

In 1999 he won the 6th Zoltán Kodály National Solfeggio Competition. He won second place in the Béla Bartók Young Composers’ Competition (2001), the International Summer Academy Composer’s Competition in Austria (2003), the Liszt University of Music Composing Competition (2004), and the István Vántus Composing Competition in Szeged (2004). He has twice won the Péter Robitsek Memorial Prize (1999, 2001), and in 2007 won the Zoltán Kodály Music Scholarship.

His pieces have featured in the programme of several festivals, including the Music of Our Time, the Budapest Spring and Autumn Festivals, the Mini Festival, and abroad in the Ostrava Days 2005 New Music Festival. He has recorded with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir. He is currently a participant on the Liszt Univerity of Music’s DLA composition programme, and a staff member of the singing and music department at the University of Theatre and Film.

He won 3rd prize at the 2009 UMZF composition competition (New Hungarian Music Forum) in category of large orchestra (Symphony No. 1/b).

Prizes, awards:
1999 Péter Robitsek Memorial Prize
2001 Péter Robitsek Memorial Prize
2013 Artisjus Prize for the Requiem (Best Composition of the Year)
2015 Erkel Prize
2020 Béla Bartók-Ditta Pásztory Award
2026 Composer Of The Year (International Classical Music Awards - ICMA)