Zombola Péter
Composer
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
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
| Year | Title | Publisher | Code | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 |
Fiatal magyar zeneszerzők cimbalomművei
(Young Hungarian Composers for Cimbalom ) |
Hungaroton | HCD 32594 | |
| 2009 |
Harpchipelago - Kortárs magyar kompozíciók hárfára
(Harpchipelago - Contemporary Hungarian Works for Harp) |
Hungaroton | HCD 32630 | |
| 2010 |
Új Magyar Zenei Fórum 2009 zeneszerzőverseny
(New Hungarian Music Forum 2009 composers' competition) |
BMC HMIC | BMC CD S05 | 2 CDs |
| 2015 |
Magyar kortárs versperások
(Hungarian Contemporary Vespers) |
BMC Records | BMC CD 211 |
Own |
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| ... and Echo | Opera | 2019 |
| Psalm 131 | Mixed choir | 2004 |
| Psalm 138 | Mixed choir | 2005 |
| 1956-68-80/16 | Music for the theater | 2016 |
| Psalm 23 | Mixed choir | 2011 |
| 3 Etudes for Recorder | Instrumental solo | 2002 |
| 3 miniatures | Instrumental solo | 2014 |
| Psalm 3 | Male choir | 2010 |
| Psalm 3 | Mixed choir | 2010 |
| 4 Pictures for Cimbalom | Instrumental solo | 2014 |
| Symphony No. 4. | String orchestra | 2008 |
| Symphony No. 5. | Symphony orchestra | 2009 |
| 56 voices | Symphony orchestra | 2006 |
| 56-2016 | Music for the theater | 2016 |
| Psalm 71 | Mixed choir | 2003 |
| Towards Masculinity | Film music | 2006 |
| From Grave to Cradle - Symphonic Poem for the 200th Anniversary of Liszt Ferenc´s Birth | Symphony orchestra | 2011 |
| Towards Completeness | Mixed choir | 2001 |
| Agnus Dei (a 8 voci) | Mixed choir | 2008 |
| Aldegunda | Opera | 2023 |
| I could not wait | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2008 |
| Ave Maria | Female choir | 2006 |
| Ave Maria | Mixed choir | 2011 |
| Ave, maris stella (a 4 voci) | Mixed choir | 2008 |
| I Hear the Voice of My Lover | Mixed choir | 0 |
| Bloody Mary | Film music | 2007 |
| Crime and Punishment | Music for the theater | 2017 |
| Cantate Domino | Female choir | 2010 |
| Chaconne | Chamber Music | 2008 |
| Chaconne | Chamber Music | 2008 |
| Choral | Instrumental solo | 2011 |
| Credo | Choir a cappella | 2006 |
| Our Colts | Music for the theater | 2014 |
| Cucc - exemplary kindergarten at the playground | Music for the theater | 2009 |
| Daradar! | Music for the theater | 2012 |
| De profundis | Mixed choir | 2002 |
| Decameron 2007 | Film music | 2007 |
| E.T. | Music for the theater | 2010 |
| East Side Stories | Film music | 2012 |
| Man Equals Man | Music for the theater | 2011 |
| University Fanfare | Ensemble | 2016 |
| Elegie | String orchestra | 1999 |
| In memoriam - Symphony No. 1 | Symphony orchestra | 2005 |
| Epitaphium | String orchestra | 2011 |
| Epitaphium | Ensemble | 2011 |
| Etude | Chamber Music | 2011 |
| Fellegi Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2018 |
| For Z | Instrumental solo | 2013 |
| Gloria | Male choir | 2007 |
| Golgotha | Film music | 2009 |
| Gong fu rong (a 4 voci) | Mixed choir | 2009 |
| If We Shadows | Music for the theater | 2018 |
| Logbook ´89-09´ | Film music | 2009 |
| The Memory of Iduna - Song-cycle on poems by János Arany | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2018 |
| Impromptu 51217 | Instrumental solo | 2012 |
| Impromptu - For the 200th Anniversary of Liszt Ferenc´s Birth | Ensemble | 2011 |
| In aeternum | Orchestral work | 2001 |
| In memoriam | Ensemble | 2007 |
| In memoriam Cseh Tamás | Chamber Music | 2009 |
| Inalterabilis I/A | String orchestra | 2005 |
| Institutio No. 1/A | Instrumental solo | 2007 |
| Institutio No. 1/B | Instrumental solo | 2007 |
| Institutio No. 1/C | Instrumental solo | 2007 |
| Institutio No. 1/D | Instrumental solo | 2011 |
| Institutio No. 10 | Chamber Music | 2011 |
| Institutio No. 11 | Chamber Music | 2012 |
| Institutio No. 2 | Chamber Music | 2007 |
| Institutio No. 3 | Chamber Music | 2008 |
| Institutio No. 4 | String orchestra | 2008 |
| Institutio No. 5/A | Concerto | 2008 |
| Institutio No. 5/B | Concerto | 2008 |
| Institutio No. 6/A | Chamber Music | 2008 |
| Institutio No. 6/B | Chamber Music | 2008 |
| Institutio No. 8 | Chamber Music | 2009 |
| Institutio No. 9 | Chamber Music | 2011 |
| In God´s Hands | Film music | 2018 |
| Heavenly Shift (Pilot) | Film music | 2011 |
| Jubilate Deo | Children's choir | 0 |
| Jubileum, exultemus | Mixed choir | 2010 |
| Julia and Her Lieutenant | Music for the theater | 2010 |
| Chamber Symphony | String orchestra | 2011 |
| Mrs. Karnyó | Music for the theater | 2006 |
| Waltz | String orchestra | 1999 |
| Bump | Film music | 2009 |
| Blue Ermine | Stage work | 2011 |
| Kérész Művek 54. | Music for the theater | 2019 |
| Perspective | Film music | 2011 |
| Strange Stories | Film music | 2008 |
| L´inferno | Mixed choir | 2007 |
| Levitation | Instrumental solo | 2004 |
| Libera me | Mixed choir | 2009 |
| Ligeti-Comments | Chamber Music | 2008 |
| Long Ride in a Fast Machine | Symphony orchestra | 2013 |
| Lux | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 2009 |
| Lux aeterna | Mixed choir | 2010 |
| Magnificat | Mixed choir | 2003 |
| Makrancos | Ballet / Choreographic work | 2015 |
| Manjack | Film music | 2017 |
| Marat / Sade | Music for the theater | 2014 |
| Mea Culpa | Film music | 2006 |
| Meditation | String orchestra | 2018 |
| Nicholas-play | Orchestral work | 2002 |
| Missa sine nomine | Mixed choir | 2006 |
| Missa sine nomine – in memoriam Ligeti György | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 2010 |
| Overture | Wind orchestra | 2011 |
| Silent Scream | Chamber Music | 2002 |
| Concerto per Oboe | Concerto | 2004 |
| Dissolution | Chamber Music | 2020 |
| Omnia tempus habent | Mixed choir | 2011 |
| On The Air | Music for the theater | 2018 |
| Operetta Ouverture | Wind orchestra | 2011 |
| Otche nash / Our Father | Mixed choir | 2007 |
| Panem meum | Ballet / Choreographic work | 2011 |
| Passio | Choir and orchestra | 2015 |
| Pastel | Ballet / Choreographic work | 2006 |
| Pater noster | Male choir | 2006 |
| Perpetuum mobile | Instrumental solo | 2018 |
| Pilonon | Music for the theater | 2007 |
| Postludium | Chamber Music | 2002 |
| Praeceptum | Symphony orchestra | 2007 |
| Pre-Sonatina | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Preludium | Chamber Music | 2004 |
| Pro et Contra | String orchestra | 2014 |
| Psalm 70 (a 4 voci) | Male choir | 2019 |
| Pyramidon | Music for the theater | 2012 |
| Quartet | Chamber Music | 2010 |
| Quartet | Chamber Music | 2003 |
| Quintet | Chamber Music | 2008 |
| Quintet - For string quartet and percussion | Chamber Music | 2005 |
| Raped Europeans | Music for the theater | 2013 |
| Requiem – Symphony No. 3 | Choir and orchestra | 2011 |
| Lullaby | String orchestra | 2001 |
| Rhythmic exercises | Instrumental solo | 2008 |
| Rumbling Wagons | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 0 |
| Fox | Film music | 2005 |
| Own time | Film music | 2012 |
| Salve Regina | Mixed choir | 2005 |
| Salve Regina | Children's choir | 2009 |
| Sanctus (a 8 voci) | Mixed choir | 2006 |
| Sextet | Ensemble | 2007 |
| Suite | Instrumental solo | 2011 |
| Symphony No. 1/b | Symphony orchestra | 2009 |
| Freedom Flight | Film music | 2013 |
| Poor Johnny and Princess Arnika | Music for the theater | 2011 |
| Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project | Film music | 2010 |
| Tender Son: The Frankenstein Projec | Film music | 2010 |
| Song of the Siren | Music for the theater | 2011 |
| Suite | Orchestral work | 2019 |
| Suite for Chamber Orchestra | Chamber orchestra | 2022 |
| On the Quiet | Film music | 2019 |
| Narrowing corridor | Instrumental solo | 2003 |
| Terra toma | Music for the theater | 2014 |
| The Singleman Party | Music for the theater | 2017 |
| With Clean Hands | Film music | 2010 |
| Toccata | Chamber Music | 2005 |
| Journey | Film music | 2005 |
| Varg Veum - I morket er alle ulver gra | Film music | 2011 |
| Versa est in luctum | Choir and chamber ensemble | 2024 |
| Vespera | Solo voice(s), choir & solo instrument(s) | 2005 |
| I Was a Flower (Institutio No. 7) | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2009 |
| Vivat, crescat, floreat! | Mixed choir | 2011 |
| Quartet No. 1 | Chamber Music | 2006 |
| String Quartet No. 2 | Chamber Music | 2009 |
| String Quartet No. 3 | Chamber Music | 2017 |
| Variations – Hommage à Sári József | Instrumental solo | 2008 |
| Variable Constant | Instrumental solo | 2009 |
| Waldsee-Fragment | Chamber Music | 2024 |
| Werther | Concerto | 2016 |
| Green Table | Music for the theater | 2015 |
| Nights | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2011 |
| Song of Songs | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 2016 |
| Joy | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2006 |
| Five Etudes | Instrumental solo | 2005 |
| Ünnep | Mixed choir | 2006 |
| Symphony No. II. | Choir and orchestra | 2008 |
| Őszikék - Song-cycle on poems by János Arany | Solo voice(s) with chamber orchestra | 2018 |