Cservenák Ármin
Composer
Place of Birth
Gyula
Date of Birth
1995
Ármin Cservenák (1995 Gyula/Hungary) started to play the violin at the age of 7. He started his composition and music theory studies with András Szalai at the Szent István Király Vocational School for Music in 2010 where he simultaneously studied sound engineering in the class of László Ujházy. He wrote his analysis thesis about Anton Webern’s Concerto op. 24. Since 2015 he studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Kunstuniversität Graz) in the faculty of composition under the supervision of Beat Furrer and Bernhard Lang. He studied microtonal composition, analysis and instrumentation with Georg Friedrich Haas at the same university.
He collaborates with the PPCM (Performance Practice in Contemporary Music) students and regularly visits the lessons by the soloists of the Klangforum Wien. He also participated in lectures by Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, Franck Bedrossian, Clemens Gadenstätter and
Francesco Filidei.
He was selected into the final audition of the Péter Eötvös Mentoring Program in 2019. He has special interest in visual arts, architecture and combines different kinds artworks in his compositions. He adapts the baroque affect theory to his compositional technique and
often uses ultrachromatic pitch systems, extended instrumental techniques.
AWARDS:
2014 VI. Competition for composers in memoriam Béla Bartók first prize
2018 I. Competition for composers in memoriam Zoltán Kodály third prize
He collaborates with the PPCM (Performance Practice in Contemporary Music) students and regularly visits the lessons by the soloists of the Klangforum Wien. He also participated in lectures by Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, Franck Bedrossian, Clemens Gadenstätter and
Francesco Filidei.
He was selected into the final audition of the Péter Eötvös Mentoring Program in 2019. He has special interest in visual arts, architecture and combines different kinds artworks in his compositions. He adapts the baroque affect theory to his compositional technique and
often uses ultrachromatic pitch systems, extended instrumental techniques.
AWARDS:
2014 VI. Competition for composers in memoriam Béla Bartók first prize
2018 I. Competition for composers in memoriam Zoltán Kodály third prize
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| „Quintetto all’ungherese / Csángó” | Chamber Music | 2018 |
| ...soffio... | Instrumental solo | 2019 |
| Madrigali - Primo ciclo (I-IV) | Choral music | 2022 |
| SOLUS – Bilder einer gebrochenen Frau | Opera | 2022 |
| SPLIT I | Chamber Music | 2024 |
| SPRING | Ensemble | 2020 |
| Silver | Chamber Music | 2020 |
| Vier Postludien | Chamber Music | 2018 |
| White Love | Chamber Music | 2022 |
| Étude 1: Snow | Instrumental solo | 2021 |
| Étude 2: Swift | Instrumental solo | 2023 |