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.