Madarász Iván
Composer
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1949
Iván Madarász is born on the 10th of February, 1949 in Budapest. He learned composing first with István Szelényi in the Béla Bartók Secondary School for Music, then he accomplished the composing department of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music Academy in the class of Endre Szervánszky. In 1972 he graduated summa cum laude. His thesis work was a one-act opera, requested by the Hungarian Television.
From 1973 to 1980 he taught at the faculty of the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy in Pécs. Since 1980 he's been teaching at the Ferenc Liszt University of Music. In 2000 he became habilitated master and received the university professor degree in 2002.
He is founding and board member of the Association of Hungarian Composers. Since 1990 he's been member of the Hungarian Bureau for the Protection of Author's Rights (Artisjus). Between 1998 and 2002 he was curator of the Music College of the National Cultural Fund and at the moment he has the same position there.
His compositions are regularly played in Hungarian and foreign concert halls. He released four independent author's records and a number of his works were recorded at the Hungarian Radio. With his choral works he won many contests. He was invited to the Yokohama World Music Festival of ISCM.
Composer awards: Special Award of the Montreux Film Festival, the Prize of the OIRT Song contest (two times), and the Prize of the Choir Contest of Budapest Capital. His activity was recognized by the Erkel Prize (1992), the Bartók-Pásztory Award (1998), the Kossuth Prize (2016) and in 2005 he was awarded with the Knight's Cross of Merit of Order of the Hungarian Republic.
A wide range of music genres appears in his compositions. The reviews point out to the dramatic depth, the singing technique and the new style of using the human voice in his music. His instrumental music, especially his flute works can be characterized by seeking of new ways of instrumental technique. In his chamber works he developed a unique method for realization of more complex, so-called non-equivalent proportional rhythms.
From 1973 to 1980 he taught at the faculty of the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy in Pécs. Since 1980 he's been teaching at the Ferenc Liszt University of Music. In 2000 he became habilitated master and received the university professor degree in 2002.
He is founding and board member of the Association of Hungarian Composers. Since 1990 he's been member of the Hungarian Bureau for the Protection of Author's Rights (Artisjus). Between 1998 and 2002 he was curator of the Music College of the National Cultural Fund and at the moment he has the same position there.
His compositions are regularly played in Hungarian and foreign concert halls. He released four independent author's records and a number of his works were recorded at the Hungarian Radio. With his choral works he won many contests. He was invited to the Yokohama World Music Festival of ISCM.
Composer awards: Special Award of the Montreux Film Festival, the Prize of the OIRT Song contest (two times), and the Prize of the Choir Contest of Budapest Capital. His activity was recognized by the Erkel Prize (1992), the Bartók-Pásztory Award (1998), the Kossuth Prize (2016) and in 2005 he was awarded with the Knight's Cross of Merit of Order of the Hungarian Republic.
A wide range of music genres appears in his compositions. The reviews point out to the dramatic depth, the singing technique and the new style of using the human voice in his music. His instrumental music, especially his flute works can be characterized by seeking of new ways of instrumental technique. In his chamber works he developed a unique method for realization of more complex, so-called non-equivalent proportional rhythms.
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| What Ophelia did not Tell Hamlet | Instrumental solo | 0 |
| Anecdote | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Archai-archi | Electroacoustic music | 0 |
| The Fifth Seal | Opera | 0 |
| Ba-Tri-Music | Chamber Music | 1995 |
| Cantabile | Electroacoustic music | 0 |
| Colla parte | Chamber Music | 2013 |
| Concerto F(L)A | Concerto | 1993 |
| Concertuba | Concerto | 1997 |
| Stars | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Song-cycle on Poems by Zoltán Radnai | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2024 |
| David´s Dance | Vocal music | 0 |
| Der Werwolf | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 0 |
| Diagrams No. 1 for String Quartet | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Dionysus´ Geometry | Electroacoustic music | 0 |
| Echo | Symphony orchestra | 1982 |
| Chapters of a Story | Choir and orchestra | 1989 |
| One-Minute Stories | Electroacoustic music | 0 |
| Episodi concertanti – Concerto for Flute No. 3 | Concerto | 2010 |
| Notes From the Mail Coach | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2019 |
| Flautiáda | Concerto | 1997 |
| FÜRZOGY | Instrumental solo | 2003 |
| From Hemisphere to Hemisphere | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2019 |
| The Wind Blows in the Reeds | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2017 |
| Concerto for Guitar | Concerto | 2014 |
| Sound Signals | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2020 |
| Hasidic Tales | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Hommage á 19th Century | Instrumental solo | 2016 |
| Three Dance is Three-four | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Three Stories | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Embroidered Sounds | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1989 |
| In due voci | Instrumental solo | 2009 |
| In memoriam ... | Chamber Music | 2018 |
| In memoriam Bach | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 0 |
| In memoriam... | Chamber Music | 0 |
| J.J.´s Games | Electroacoustic music | 1995 |
| Ten Prayers of Jan Jansson | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Katabasis - For Flute and Synthesizer | Chamber Music | 2012 |
| Commentary to an Unknown Story | Vocal music | 2005 |
| Kuli | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 0 |
| Kyrie | Mixed choir | 2023 |
| Salutation with 7 times 7 notes to the 70 years old István Matuz | Instrumental solo | 2017 |
| Locomotiv | Solo voice(s) with orchestra | 2020 |
| Ludi | Instrumental solo | 1975 |
| Lot - Opera in One Act | Opera | 1985 |
| Lot´s Prayer | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Metamorphosis | Instrumental solo | 1971 |
| Missa brevis | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 0 |
| Mosaics | Instrumental solo | 1975 |
| Musica solenne | Symphony orchestra | 1998 |
| Tales with Music, No. 1 - King Matthias and the Shoemaker | Solo voice(s), choir & chamber orchestra | 0 |
| Tales with Music, No. 2 - Tale About Sonds (Lullaby) | Solo voice(s) with orchestra | 0 |
| Tales with Music, No. 3 - Knight Pázmán | Solo voice(s) with orchestra | 0 |
| Nautilus | Wind orchestra | 0 |
| Nr-Lu-Saz | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2014 |
| Overture to an Imaginary Opera | Symphony orchestra | 2015 |
| Orpheus´ Gestures | Electroacoustic music | 1997 |
| Orlando | Chamber Music | 2018 |
| Piccolo Concerto | Concerto | 2023 |
| Prologue | Opera | 0 |
| Pan´s Flute | Chamber orchestra | 2022 |
| Dialogue | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Parallel Monologues | Chamber Music | 1996 |
| Qui venit | Solo voice(s) with orchestra | 2012 |
| RAP-petition | Solo voice(s) with orchestra | 0 |
| RE-peticion | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Radnai Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2024 |
| Reflections | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Refrain - Texts by Buddha | Solo voice(s), choir & solo instrument(s) | 1991 |
| Scherzo | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 0 |
| Speeds for Two Flutes | Live and prerecorded music | 1984 |
| Sheol - For Flute, Harp and String-Quartet | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Sheol | Ensemble | 2002 |
| Slow fox, Ragtime | Chamber Music | 2013 |
| Many Times Seventhy Sounds | Chamber Music | 2010 |
| Staccatmen | Instrumental solo | 2015 |
| Symbols | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Wreath of Sonnets | Instrumental solo | 2015 |
| Heartbeat... | Choir a cappella | 0 |
| Tabulatura | Electroacoustic music | 1996 |
| Talisman - To the poem by Desző Tandori | Electroacoustic music | 0 |
| Tetraphony | Instrumental solo | 2009 |
| Triptych | Chamber Music | 2010 |
| Last Waltz | Opera | 2001 |
| Uxatrim | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2015 |
| Vortex in the Crystal | Chamber Music | 2011 |
| Five cases - For Horn and Cimbalom | Chamber Music | 2004 |
| Further Parallel Monologues | Chamber Music | 1999 |