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The Szabolcs Oláh Quartetet formed in 2002 is a collective of four talented musicians, all in their twenties. They all attended or graduated from the Jazz Department of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, and besides playing together in many groups (HaGesher, Jazz4You, Fritz Jazz Band), they are also close friends. Oláh, currently a student of Sándor Horányi and Gyula Babos, was the Best Soloist at the Youth Jazz Festival in 2000, then in 2004 his arrangement was voted best at the 2nd Jazz Composing and Arranging Competition of the Hungarian Jazz Federation. Mester started playing the guitar, then switched to the clarinet, but however talented he proved to be on the instrument (he won the 1991 National Clarinet Competition), he finally chose the saxophone. His teachers are Mihály Borbély and István Elek. Soós won a Special Award as Best Instrumentalist at the above mentioned Youth Jazz Festival. The teacher of the freshly graduated bass player was Balázs Berkes. Majtényi used to be the pupil of István Baló before he was accepted to the Academy of Music, where he studied under Iván Nesztor and Imre Kőszegi. The band won a competition organized within the City Lipót Days in 2004. Members of the jury were well-known Hungarian players and jazz experts Gábor Juhász, Kálmán Oláh, and György Kerekes.

Year	Title	Publisher	Code	Remark
2004	Promotional Demo 2004	Adform		Own
2005	Hungarian Jazz Store	BMC HMIC	BMC PCD 016	Not for sale - only for promotion / 4 CDs
2006	Oláh Szabolcs Quartet: Inner Spring	Magánkiadás		Own