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Hartl Bence


Composer

Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1987
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Bence Hartl was born in Budapest in 1987. At the age of seven he started to learn violin and as a teenager he changed to classical guitar. After high school he studied philosophy and aesthetics at Eötvös Loránd University - Faculty of Humanities. He wrote his Bachelor-degree thesis about Bertrand Russell's denotation-theory. He studied as a guitarist at Szeged University and later at Vienna Konservatorium. He got degrees as an instrumentalist, teacher and conductor. Over the years his most important teachers were: Gábor Brezovcsik (guitar), Andrea Bozóki (guitar), Ede Roth (guitar), Iván Madarász (music theory and composition).

He was a guitarist in several chamber music formations. As a founder and leader of S.W.A.T. Guitar Ensemble (HU) he staged contemporary and rare guitar quartets and played many concerts with his team at renowned concert locations. He played together with other instrumentalists as well and took part in contemporary and mixed media performances. Currently he plays in the Clarinet-Guitar Project, in the Cluster Project and occasionally with other formations.

Bence Hartl is active as a composer and as an arranger as well. He writes mostly solo and chamber music for different instruments. His pieces were performed in the USA, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Greece, Ukraine and Russia by such performers as the soloist of New Music Studio Moscow, virtuoso violinists (Édua Zádory, Gabriella Márffy, Epameinondas Tzivenis) and guitarist (Dora Cserenyec, Marcell Nickmann, Fabio Adour), Tamas Palfalvi (trumpet), the Somogyi String Quartet, Rupert Bergmann (baritone), S.W.A.T. Guitar Ensemble and many others. In 2019 he got the 2nd Prize at the Fifth Edison Denisov Young Composer’s International Competiton, in 2020 he was a finalist at the 1st Chalki International Composition Competition and in 2021 he won the 1st prize at the International Composition Competition of the Miami GuitART Festival.

Alongside his activities he teaches classical guitar, chamber music and music theory. Since 2018 he lives, works and creates in Germany.

see also: Hartl Bence - musician
 
Year Title Publisher Code Remark
2017 Heavy - Works by Nikolet Burzyńska, Juan Manuel Abras, Federico Placidi, Filip Sande, Bence Hartl, Johanna Doderer Genuin GEN17473 Includes World Premiere Recordings
 
Title Type Year
Вата в ухе - Vata v ukho Live and prerecorded music 2021
The Dead Always Kiss You Back Music for the theater 2017
Who is Who is Who is This You? - Selected Rudenesses from Everyday Contacts Mixed choir 2013
However Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) 2012
Song Choir with solo voice(s) 0
Diminished Suite Chamber Music 2018
Drei für Drei Chamber Music 2013
Fi Chamber Music 2019
Five Short Pieces for Guitar Chamber Music 2013
Flick Chamber Music 0
Three bagatells for Guitar Duet Chamber Music 2010
Chimaera Nr. 1 -The Square Circle Instrumental solo 2010
Chimaera Nr. 2 - The exact value of Pi Instrumental solo 2013
Two Sketches Chamber Music 2015
Hungarian Fragments Chamber Music 2017
Music for Chicks Chamber Music 2012
Folk Songs Chamber Music 2013
Oiha! Chamber Music 2012
Op. 3,14 Instrumental solo 2020
Passacaille Chamber Music 2016
S.W.A.T. Chamber Music 2013
Scan06 Chamber Music 2021
Scherzino Diminuito Ballet / Choreographic work 2015
Sprattus sprattus Solo voice(s) with ensemble 0
Talvisota Chamber Music 2021
Tritonal Trio Chamber Music 2017
Try písní Chamber Music 2019
Ukrainian Fragments Instrumental solo 2023
Variations on a Theme of Liszt - (M)aradi szvit Instrumental solo 2016
Wovon man sprechen kann Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) 2017