Nagy Ákos
Composer
Place of Birth
Dunaújváros
Date of Birth
1982
Web
March 5 1982 Dunaújváros
Ákos Nagy visited the local Zsigmond Móricz Elementary School for Music, and then became student of the István Széchenyi Secondary School in Dunaújváros. Later he obtained final examination in the Pál Rosti Secondary School. During his childhood years he learned to play the violin from Árpád Petky in the Frigyes Sándor Music School of Dunaújváros, but he quit studying after four years. In September 2000 he moved to Budapest. He taught counterpoint and music theory for two years and prepared the applicants of the University of Theater and Film.
Hes been analysing the music of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, the results of which show in his works just like the influences of Transylvanian folk music and Indian, Khmer, Balinese or Japanese culture. He is interested in fresh forms and structures; he fills these with unique motives of melody that often originate from the non-tempered system. His music stacks solid blocks next to each other and these used to appear heaped-up (so-called layer technique). He likes the diverse mathematical series, the textures founded on the principle of variation and he enriches these with complicated polyrhythmic and polytempi materials.
From the early 2000s he has regularly written articles, reviews about music for various cultural journals. In January 2009 he founded the S.Z.I.M.N.I.A. (Foundation for Propagating and Informing Symmetrical Musical and Written Works) with his four friends (Bálint Baráth, József Paska, Miklós Preiszner and dr. János Seprődi). He is art director and programme organizer of the foundation.
Since May 2009 hes been anchorman at the Fusion Radio of Budapest with a contemporary music programme titled Carnival. Hes had many premieres in Hungary - in Budapest as well as in country towns.
Ákos Nagy visited the local Zsigmond Móricz Elementary School for Music, and then became student of the István Széchenyi Secondary School in Dunaújváros. Later he obtained final examination in the Pál Rosti Secondary School. During his childhood years he learned to play the violin from Árpád Petky in the Frigyes Sándor Music School of Dunaújváros, but he quit studying after four years. In September 2000 he moved to Budapest. He taught counterpoint and music theory for two years and prepared the applicants of the University of Theater and Film.
Hes been analysing the music of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, the results of which show in his works just like the influences of Transylvanian folk music and Indian, Khmer, Balinese or Japanese culture. He is interested in fresh forms and structures; he fills these with unique motives of melody that often originate from the non-tempered system. His music stacks solid blocks next to each other and these used to appear heaped-up (so-called layer technique). He likes the diverse mathematical series, the textures founded on the principle of variation and he enriches these with complicated polyrhythmic and polytempi materials.
From the early 2000s he has regularly written articles, reviews about music for various cultural journals. In January 2009 he founded the S.Z.I.M.N.I.A. (Foundation for Propagating and Informing Symmetrical Musical and Written Works) with his four friends (Bálint Baráth, József Paska, Miklós Preiszner and dr. János Seprődi). He is art director and programme organizer of the foundation.
Since May 2009 hes been anchorman at the Fusion Radio of Budapest with a contemporary music programme titled Carnival. Hes had many premieres in Hungary - in Budapest as well as in country towns.
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Narayan the Child | Live and prerecorded music | 2009 |
| Ame no nori fue / The Heavenly Flute | Instrumental solo | 2007 |
| Ame no nori fue paraphase | Chamber Music | 2009 |
| Cauda Pavonis | Electroacoustic music | 2010 |
| Chiaroscuro | Chamber Music | 2010 |
| Divje Babe | Ensemble | 0 |
| Elhagyottak a hegyek, sehol senki lábnyoma, távol, titkos hang után csendül visszhangok sora | Electroacoustic music | 2010 |
| Ripples on the Ice of Enceladus | Instrumental solo | 2014 |
| Glowing Sky bent branches | Electroacoustic music | 2011 |
| Humoresque | Ensemble | 2010 |
| In memoriam Vékony Ildikó | Instrumental solo | 2009 |
| Keserves no. 2. (Miniatures Second Book) | Chamber Music | 2009 |
| Two Images of Nature to the Poems by Sándor Weöres | Chamber orchestra | 2024 |
| Mediaeval Dances | Chamber Music | 2010 |
| Legyek násza | Instrumental solo | 2010 |
| Miniatures | Instrumental solo | 2008 |
| Miniatures - Second book | Instrumental solo | 2009 |
| Lever du Soleil dans le Brouillard apparant | Live and tape music | 2011 |
| Narayan paraphase I. | Instrumental solo | 0 |
| Panaszos - In Lacrimarum valle | Instrumental solo | 2009 |
| Parallel braids | Ballet / Choreographic work | 2010 |
| Parallel braids II.- Nabû-kudurri-uṣur´s dream | Electroacoustic music | 2010 |
| Recitazioni (to Ádám Kondor) | Electroacoustic music | 0 |
| Ruptura | Instrumental solo | 2009 |
| Salita in discesa | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Same or Different? | Instrumental solo | 2024 |
| Lament - Remebering Ákos Fodor | Instrumental solo | 2015 |
| Soli(e)tude | Chamber Music | 2013 |
| Somewhere, far off Sirens | Instrumental solo | 2014 |
| Veiled Wince | Chamber Music | 2009 |
| Vertigo | Instrumental solo | 2010 |
| Wailing of Pendulum | Live and prerecorded music | 2013 |