Hamary András
Composer
András Hamary was born in Budapest on 13 June 1950. Following studies at the Bartók Conservatory and the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, he trained as a concert pianist under Hans Leygraf at the Hanover University of Music. He has also attended master classes taught by Alfred Brendel, Géza Anda, Nikita Magaloff, Yvonne Lefébure, Jörg Demus and Carlo Zecchi.
As a pianist he won the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Prize in Berlin and the First Prize of the International Debussy Competition in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Beginning in 1970 Hamary toured extensively in many European countries, the USA, Mexico and Korea. Mozart, Schubert and Debussy play an important role in his repertoire, which ranges from Bach to contemporary music. Since 1986 he has held a professorship in piano and chamber music at the University of Music in Würzburg. For eight years he also conducted that university's Ensemble for New Music.
He was awarded the Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart for Timor - Fragmente zur Angst, five pieces for orchestra written while he was still studying composition under Milko Kelemen. Since the late 1970s, he has written compositions in an extremely varied range of genres, including the opera Seid still (Be quiet), which was commissioned by the Second Biennale in Munich; the performance piece Regenzeit (Rainy Season) in collaboration with the Frankfurt-based choreographer Christian Golusda on a commission from Germany's Südwestrundfunk (SWR); and the ballet Der Welt Lohn (The World's Reward) for vocal soloists, choir and orchestra, which was composed for the 200th anniversary of Würzburg's Mainfranken Theater.
In contrast to his work as a pianist, he has focused his attention as a conductor (studies under Thomas Ungar in Stuttgart) entirely on new music. In Stuttgart he founded ensemble avance, a group of young musicians dedicated to the interpretation of contemporary music. With them he has made numerous recordings for radio and premiered the works of celebrated composers. For his work conducting Adriana Hölszky's opera Bremer Freiheit (Bremen Freedom) at the First Munich Biennale he received the BMW Musical Theatre Award for the best musical direction.
Other awards have included the Second Prize of the International Viola Research Society in Salzburg for Grauzonen (Grey Zones); a prize at the International Karlheinz Stockhausen Composition Competition in Bergamo (for his Thirteen Piano Etudes); and grants from the Heinrich Strobel Foundation, the Art Foundation of Baden-Württemberg, and the State of Lower Saxony.
As a pianist he won the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Prize in Berlin and the First Prize of the International Debussy Competition in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Beginning in 1970 Hamary toured extensively in many European countries, the USA, Mexico and Korea. Mozart, Schubert and Debussy play an important role in his repertoire, which ranges from Bach to contemporary music. Since 1986 he has held a professorship in piano and chamber music at the University of Music in Würzburg. For eight years he also conducted that university's Ensemble for New Music.
He was awarded the Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart for Timor - Fragmente zur Angst, five pieces for orchestra written while he was still studying composition under Milko Kelemen. Since the late 1970s, he has written compositions in an extremely varied range of genres, including the opera Seid still (Be quiet), which was commissioned by the Second Biennale in Munich; the performance piece Regenzeit (Rainy Season) in collaboration with the Frankfurt-based choreographer Christian Golusda on a commission from Germany's Südwestrundfunk (SWR); and the ballet Der Welt Lohn (The World's Reward) for vocal soloists, choir and orchestra, which was composed for the 200th anniversary of Würzburg's Mainfranken Theater.
In contrast to his work as a pianist, he has focused his attention as a conductor (studies under Thomas Ungar in Stuttgart) entirely on new music. In Stuttgart he founded ensemble avance, a group of young musicians dedicated to the interpretation of contemporary music. With them he has made numerous recordings for radio and premiered the works of celebrated composers. For his work conducting Adriana Hölszky's opera Bremer Freiheit (Bremen Freedom) at the First Munich Biennale he received the BMW Musical Theatre Award for the best musical direction.
Other awards have included the Second Prize of the International Viola Research Society in Salzburg for Grauzonen (Grey Zones); a prize at the International Karlheinz Stockhausen Composition Competition in Bergamo (for his Thirteen Piano Etudes); and grants from the Heinrich Strobel Foundation, the Art Foundation of Baden-Württemberg, and the State of Lower Saxony.
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Etüden / 13 Etudes | Instrumental solo | 1983 |
| 24 Préludes | Instrumental solo | 2022 |
| 3 Strukturen / Three Structures | Live and tape music | 1979 |
| 5 Kleine Stücke / 5 Little pieces | Chamber Music | 1979 |
| 6 Bagatellen / 6 Bagatelles | Instrumental solo | 1982 |
| 6 Späte Klavierstücke von Franz Liszt / 6 Late Piano Pieces by Liszt Ferenc | Chamber Music | 2009 |
| Acrobats | Multimedia | 2016 |
| Small World | Chamber Music | 2023 |
| Arbres / Trees | Chamber Music | 2014 |
| Bartleby-Triptychon | Multimedia | 2016 |
| Birds | Multimedia | 2019 |
| Brouillards - 3 Movements to a Prélude by Claude Debussy | Chamber Music | 1983 |
| Buen viage | Instrumental solo | 2003 |
| Canti | Solo voice(s) a cappella | 2007 |
| Canto de Ordeño | Chamber Music | 2015 |
| Chiellino-Lieder / Chiellino-Songs | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 1999 |
| Clair-Obscur | Chamber Music | 2013 |
| Clapham Junction | Multimedia | 2019 |
| Cries | Instrumental solo | 1986 |
| Cries | Chamber Music | 1986 |
| Cubus 10 - Porte des Morts | Multimedia | 2019 |
| Cubus 1a | Multimedia | 2018 |
| Cubus 1b | Multimedia | 2018 |
| Cubus 2 | Multimedia | 2018 |
| Cubus 3 (Wolkenmenschen) | Multimedia | 2018 |
| Cubus 4 | Multimedia | 2018 |
| Cubus 5 | Multimedia | 2018 |
| Cubus 6 | Multimedia | 2018 |
| Cubus 7 (Le Manége d´amour) | Multimedia | 2018 |
| Cubus 8 - Mennyből az angyal | Multimedia | 2018 |
| Cubus 9 (Spheres) | Multimedia | 2019 |
| Das rote Ballett / The Red Ballet | Multimedia | 2018 |
| Dead Wall Tales | Stage work | 2014 |
| Der Welt Lohn / The World´s Reward | Stage work | 2004 |
| Der kleine Prinz / | Instrumental solo | 2016 |
| Entre morir y no morir | Chamber Music | 2016 |
| Europa | Multimedia | 2016 |
| Extinction Tales | Chamber Music | 2009 |
| Faces | Multimedia | 2019 |
| Five | Multimedia | 2014 |
| Fleeting Resonances | Chamber Music | 2017 |
| Funérailles-Mobile | Instrumental solo | 2009 |
| Wind Quintet | Chamber Music | 2018 |
| Graffiti | Chamber Music | 1990 |
| Grauzonen / Gray Areas | Chamber Music | 1982 |
| Grido | Instrumental solo | 1994 |
| Grido / The Cry | Stage work | 1993 |
| Hommage à Janáček | Ensemble | 2005 |
| Hommage á Giacometti | Multimedia | 2014 |
| Im Dunkeln zu singen / Singing in the Darkness | Chamber Music | 1988 |
| Im Museum / At the Museum | Multimedia | 2014 |
| Inventio | Multimedia | 2018 |
| Zeichen / Signs | Instrumental solo | 1998 |
| Jeu á 15 | Chamber Music | 1984 |
| Le Patinage / The Skating | Multimedia | 2018 |
| Le Patinage / The Skating (2. version) | Multimedia | 2018 |
| Little Red Men´s Saint Vitus´ Dance | Multimedia | 2019 |
| L´arrivée des sons / Arrival of Sounds | Instrumental solo | 1995 |
| Magic Pieces | Instrumental solo | 2001 |
| Memento | Chamber Music | 1980 |
| Menudo Mundo (Small World) | Chamber Music | 2023 |
| Missa Brevis | Solo voice(s), choir & chamber orchestra | 1982 |
| Motion Studies | Chamber Music | 2014 |
| Music to "Foolish Wives" | Chamber Music | 1999 |
| New York Study | Multimedia | 2018 |
| Nightmare | Multimedia | 2019 |
| Red Nr. 1 - Objets Trouvés | Multimedia | 2012 |
| Red Nr. 10 - 509 Beats (Lava) | Multimedia | 2014 |
| Red Nr. 2 - About Death | Multimedia | 2013 |
| Red Nr. 3 - The Kepler Orrery | Multimedia | 2012 |
| Red Nr. 4 - Shapes (Objets Trouvés 2) | Multimedia | 2012 |
| Red Nr. 5 - The Dancing Faces | Multimedia | 0 |
| Red Nr. 6 - Fromme Warnung / Red Nr. 6 - Pious Warning Words | Multimedia | 0 |
| Red Nr. 7 - Exchange | Multimedia | 2013 |
| Red Nr. 8 (Passacaglia) | Multimedia | 2013 |
| Regenzeit / Rainy Season | Stage work | 1998 |
| Restklang / Residual Sound | Incidental music | 0 |
| Rotor | Chamber Music | 2015 |
| Seid Still / Be Still | Opera | 1990 |
| Signale / Signals | Chamber Music | 1983 |
| Snow Study (Hommage á Claude Debussy) | Chamber Music | 2013 |
| Strides | Instrumental solo | 2013 |
| Structure Op. 4 | Chamber Music | 1981 |
| Suite | Chamber Music | 2002 |
| Sonate (MRT) / Sonata (MRT) | Instrumental solo | 2003 |
| Tango für einen Faun / Tango for a Faun | Instrumental solo | 2005 |
| Tenebrae | Chamber Music | 2018 |
| The Bar Code Study | Multimedia | 2014 |
| The One-Winged Icarus | Multimedia | 2016 |
| Timor | Symphony orchestra | 1981 |
| Tod des Prometheus / Death of Prometheus | Symphony orchestra | 1985 |
| Un Chant d´amour | Chamber Music | 2001 |
| Un eco dal passato | Instrumental solo | 2020 |
| Unabhängigkeitsübungen / Exercises for Independence | Instrumental solo | 1999 |
| Versprechen / Promise | Mixed choir | 1990 |
| Widerspiel | Chamber Music | 1988 |
| Wollte ich Liebe singen | Chamber Music | 2018 |
| grenzen / borders | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 1985 |