Serei Zsolt
Composer
Place of Birth
Takácsi
Date of Birth
1954
Zsolt Serei was born in 1954, in Takácsi, Hungary. He early started learning music, first he played the piano. Later he studied the trombone under the direction of György Zilcz and József Nagy, and composition under István Fekete Győr. At the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music he received his degree in composition (1979) as a student of Endre Szervánszky and Emil Petrovics, and conducting (1982) in the class of András Kórodi and Ervin Lukács. As a private student Mr. Serei has also studied under Zoltán Jeney and Albert Simon. He has been a member of the New Music Studio since 1978 as a performer, conductor and a composer.
He has been a teacher at the faculty of composition of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music since 1986. In 1989 he founded the instrumental group @@KAR_74##, which has become one of the most significant base of contemporary music-making in Hungary. Componensemble has had Budapest premieres of pieces by Pierre Boulez, György Kurtág or Morton Feldman. Their repertoire includes international and Hungarian contemporary chamber works, and among others they have made CD-, radio- and TV-recordings of works by Gyula Csapó, János Decsényi, Barnabás Dukay, Zoltán Jeney, György Kurtág, József Sári, László Sáry, József Soproni, András Szőllősy, László Tihanyi, László Vidovszky and others. As a conductor of the ensemble Mr. Serei was attending at the Music Biennale Zagreb, the Warsaw Autumn Festival, the Melos Festival
In 1991 he conducted Pierre Boulez’s Le marteau sans maître, and Dérive with the Dutch Nieuw Ensemble. Mr. Serei's chamber piece, Rege, was performed in Brussels in 1982, and orchestral work, Calyx, was played in Budapest at the ISCM Festival in 1986. The Componensemble and Zsolt Serei was awarded numerous times by the Hungarian Bureau of Authors’ Rights awards several times for their excellent rendering of Hungarian new music. In 1999 Mr. Serei won the Music Award of the Soros Foundation, and in the same year his opera, One Minute Stories (based on short stories of István Örkény) was performed at the Budapest Autumn Festival.
In 2010 he was awarded with Béla Bartók-Ditta Pásztory Award.
see also: Serei Zsolt - conductor
He has been a teacher at the faculty of composition of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music since 1986. In 1989 he founded the instrumental group @@KAR_74##, which has become one of the most significant base of contemporary music-making in Hungary. Componensemble has had Budapest premieres of pieces by Pierre Boulez, György Kurtág or Morton Feldman. Their repertoire includes international and Hungarian contemporary chamber works, and among others they have made CD-, radio- and TV-recordings of works by Gyula Csapó, János Decsényi, Barnabás Dukay, Zoltán Jeney, György Kurtág, József Sári, László Sáry, József Soproni, András Szőllősy, László Tihanyi, László Vidovszky and others. As a conductor of the ensemble Mr. Serei was attending at the Music Biennale Zagreb, the Warsaw Autumn Festival, the Melos Festival
In 1991 he conducted Pierre Boulez’s Le marteau sans maître, and Dérive with the Dutch Nieuw Ensemble. Mr. Serei's chamber piece, Rege, was performed in Brussels in 1982, and orchestral work, Calyx, was played in Budapest at the ISCM Festival in 1986. The Componensemble and Zsolt Serei was awarded numerous times by the Hungarian Bureau of Authors’ Rights awards several times for their excellent rendering of Hungarian new music. In 1999 Mr. Serei won the Music Award of the Soros Foundation, and in the same year his opera, One Minute Stories (based on short stories of István Örkény) was performed at the Budapest Autumn Festival.
In 2010 he was awarded with Béla Bartók-Ditta Pásztory Award.
see also: Serei Zsolt - conductor
| Year | Title | Publisher | Code | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 |
Kortárs liturgikus magyar zene
(Contemporary Hungarian Lithurgic Music) |
Hungaroton | HCD 31770 | |
| 2001 |
Vékony Ildikó: Szálkák
(Vékony, Ildikó: Splinters) |
BMC Records | BMC CD046 | |
| 2002 |
Serei Zsolt: Nézek fel: csak fény
(Serei, Zsolt: I look up just light) |
BMC Records | BMC CD 073 | Further contributor: Juniku Spartakus - violin |
| 2002 | Kurtág, Szőllősy, Sáry, Serei, Sári, Gyöngyössy | BMC Records | BMC CD 074 | |
| 2004 | Music Colors - Hungarian Contemporary Music (1989-2004) | BMC HMIC | BMC PCD 015 | Not for sale - only for promotion |
| 2005 |
Serei, Soós és Vidovszky művei - Rondino Fesztivál 2004
(Works of Serei, Soós, Vidovszky Rondino Festival 2004) |
Magánkiadás | BHKZ CD02 | |
| 2015 |
Magyar kortárs versperások
(Hungarian Contemporary Vespers) |
BMC Records | BMC CD 211 |
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| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| ...hill, wind, blue... | Instrumental solo | 2007 |
| ...while she is just asleep | Chamber Music | 1978 |
| ...mint te, ollyan rózsaszál | Solo voice(s) a cappella | 1998 |
| ...stets blickend in die Höh´ | Chamber Music | 2008 |
| 60 Duets for Two Violins | Chamber Music | 2004 |
| 80 Duos and 1 Solo | Ensemble | 2024 |
| The Capital "T" | Ensemble | 1981 |
| Commendation / Widmung | Vocal ensemble | 1989 |
| Album Leaves and Interludes | Instrumental solo | 1996 |
| Als Leiter zu Land und See | Chamber Music | 2011 |
| Happiness into Song | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 0 |
| Calyx | Orchestral work | 1984 |
| Cents fois le jour / Hundred times a day | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 1981 |
| Clar-X | Chamber Music | 2013 |
| One-Minute Stories | Opera | 1999 |
| Memorial Drawing No. 2 - in memoriam Jeney Zoltán | Chamber Music | 2023 |
| En route | Chamber Music | 2020 |
| Epitaphium - in memoriam Ádám Rajhona | Ensemble | 0 |
| Fax from X | Chamber Music | 2003 |
| For 51 to LI | Chamber Music | 2009 |
| Fugue - towards silence... | Chamber Music | 2022 |
| Six Pieces for Flute, Viola and Violoncello | Chamber Music | 1973 |
| Twenty-one Melody Fragments - In memoriam Morton Feldman | Ensemble | 1988 |
| Three Chinese Quatrains on Poems by Li Taio-Po | Chamber Music | 1998 |
| Seven Minutes for Twenty Years | Ensemble | 1991 |
| Interszenen | Ensemble | 1998 |
| Intonations | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 1988 |
| Isochrony | Chamber Music | 2019 |
| Julia | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2019 |
| Klaro | Chamber Music | 2008 |
| Calendar of Pictures | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1996 |
| Prayer in Hiding | Solo voice(s) a cappella | 2009 |
| Prayer in Hiding | Mixed choir | 2008 |
| Interludes for Rain, Wind and Bells | Instrumental solo | 2003 |
| Stonedreamwhite | Chamber Music | 2009 |
| Lehel - Fragment on the words of Petőfi | Solo voice(s) a cappella | 2014 |
| Letters from X | Chamber Music | 1981 |
| Letters to the Unknown (In memoriam Gyöngyössy Zoltán) | Ensemble | 2013 |
| L´ombre sur les structures pliées | Ensemble | 2001 |
| MM 20 | Chamber Music | 1979 |
| MM 20 | Ensemble | 1978 |
| Metamorfosi su quattro note - Hommage a Jeney Zoltán | Chamber Music | 2014 |
| Why...forever... | Instrumental solo | 2019 |
| Namost | Instrumental solo | 2004 |
| A Hundred Times a Day I Think About What Love Is (Cent fois le jour Ronsand) | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 2001 |
| 4 FOR 4 | Chamber Music | 1999 |
| Lilac | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1974 |
| Partita | String orchestra | 2001 |
| Passacaglia in memoriam Szöllősy András | Instrumental solo | 2011 |
| Passi velati | Ensemble | 1992 |
| Pavane & Double | String orchestra | 2015 |
| Pavane in D | Chamber Music | 1984 |
| Quasi una sonata - Hommage a Beethoven | Chamber Music | 2012 |
| Rege | Chamber Music | 1979 |
| Rottenbiller Street 16-22 | Live electronic music | 1990 |
| Round - rolls | Ensemble | 1980 |
| Rynk | !to be determined | 2018 |
| Second Book | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Sinfoniente | String orchestra | 2004 |
| Serenade | Chamber orchestra | 1993 |
| Szín-Sarabande - Hommage a Vékony Ildikó | Concerto | 2018 |
| Terra tremuit | Choral music | 1995 |
| To meet John | Chamber Music | 2022 |
| Tota pulchra es | Male choir | 1996 |
| Tristesse du caprice - To a motif by Zoltán Horusitzky | Chamber Music | 2003 |
| Conversation in Square - Hommage à Webern | Ensemble | 1977 |
| Movemnets of the Vesper | Male choir | 2001 |
| Lines in double space | Chamber Music | 2015 |
| Imaginary Meeting | Instrumental solo | 1976 |
| You, Leila | Instrumental solo | 2024 |
| Yvonne is silent - In memory of Baron Klárensz | Chamber Music | 2024 |
| ein-tretende Figur (Hommage á Paul Klee) | Instrumental solo | 1984 |
| fanatritratritrána | Ensemble | 1982 |
| fanatritratritrána | Chamber Music | 1977 |
| the | Chamber Music | 1974 |
| the (Version A) | Instrumental solo | 1974 |
| Branches | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Dream drawings | Chamber Music | 2004 |
| Arch | Chamber Music | 1976 |
| Five Hommages | Ensemble | 0 |