Binder Károly
piano
Károly Binder started his classical music studies at the age of five and got a diploma in piano and composition at the Jazz Faculty of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. He is presently Head of Faculty there. He is a well-known performing and recording artist both in Hungary and internationally. He has given concerts and held workshops in London (Royal Festival Hall), Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Cologne, Vienna, Athens, Ankara, Cairo, Duisburg, Essen, Freeburg, etc. He won both the International Jazz Piano Competition in Kalisz in 1981 and the Hungarian Radio Grand Prix in 1986 with a work entitled Kontinentspiel. He also received the eMeRTon Prize as the Pianist of the Year in 1989 and made his first recording for two pianos in the same year in Hungary. His CD Dance Music was Record of the Year in 1991. He has appeared on radio and television and has written the scores for a number of motion pictures and productions for the theatre. He has also composed more than a hundred pieces for piano, orchestra and chamber ensemble. Binder was awarded with the Erkel Prize in 2003. He's been awarded with Artisjus Prize in 2017. In 2024, he was awarded the Prize of Merited Artist of Hungary and the Bartók Radio's György Vukan Jazz Prize.
| Year | Title | Publisher | Code | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Binder Károly: In Illo Tempore | Krém | SLPX 17828 |
Own LP |
| 1989 | Bernd Köppen, Károly Binder: Diagonalmusic | SENTI Records | SE CD 01 |
Own |
| 1989 | György Szabados, MAKUZ-Zenekar: A Szarvassá vált fiak | Krém | SLPX 37215 | LP |
| 1989 | Binder - Süle: For You. Two Pianos | Pannonton | JL 117 |
Own LP |
| 1989 | Binder Károly: Kontinentspiel | Krém | SLPX 37210 |
Own |
| 1990 |
Reich, Steve: Zene ütőhangszerekre, énekhangokra és orgonára; Zene fadarabokra; Sextet
(Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ; Music for Pieces of Wood; Sextet) |
Hungaroton | SLPX / HCD 31358 | Reissue on CD: HCD 31358 (1995) |
| 1991 | Binder Károly: Erózió | Binder Music Manufactory | BMM 9704 |
Own |
| 1992 | Binder Károly: Little Song | Binder Music Manufactory | BMM 9603 |
Own |
| 1993 | Binder Károly & Szőke Szabolcs - feat. Theo Jörgensmann, Federico Sanesi - Pangea: Live at Music Academy | Binder Music Manufactory | BMM 9303 |
Own |
| 1993 | Binder-Juhász: Christmas Song | Binder Music Manufactory | BMM 9302 |
Own |
| 1993 | Binder Károly: Forgotten Pictures | Binder Music Manufactory | BMM 9301 |
Own |
| 1995 | WOMUFE - World Music Festival Budapest | Hungaroton | HCD 31603 | |
| 1995 | Károly Binder, Theo Jörgensmann: In Budapest | Pannon Jazz | PJ 1002 | |
| 1996 | Binder Quintet featuring John Tchicai | Binder Music Manufactory | BMM 9606 |
Own Originally released: Krém (H) SLPX 17759 (LP) - Hungaroton Gong, 1983 |
| 1996 | Binder Quartet: Senior és Adolphis | Binder Music Manufactory | BMM 9604 |
Own |
| 1996 | Binder Károly - Ramesh Shotham: Dance Music | Binder Music Manufactory | BMM 9605 |
Own Original release: Krém (Hungaroton) 37501, 1991. Album of the Year |
| 1997 | Binder Károly: 17 Opus | Binder Music Manufactory | BMM 9705 |
Own |
| 1998 | Binder Károly: Retropolis - Old songs, new dreams | Binder Music Manufactory | 9801/-2 |
Own |
| 1999 |
Szabados György: Az események titkos története
(The Secret History of the Events) |
Fonó Records | FA-068-2 | 2 CDs. Also contains the album Sons Turned into Stags first released as: Hungaroton SLPX 37215, 1989, LP |
| 1999 | A History of Hungarian Jazz | Pannon Jazz | PJ 1042 | |
| 2000 | Binder Károly: The Prepared Piano 1. | Binder Music Manufactory | BMM 0006 3220 4435 |
Own |
| 2000 |
Binder-Borbély: Hangok
(Binder-Borbély: Sounds) |
Binder Music Manufactory | BMM 0003-29194234 |
Own |
| 2002 | Binder Károly: The Prepared Piano 2. | Binder Music Manufactory | BMM 0202 |
Own |
| 2004 | Binder - Borbély: 7 Duets | Binder Music Manufactory | BMM 0401-44-254943 |
Own |
| 2005 | Hungarian Jazz Store | BMC HMIC | BMC PCD 016 | Not for sale - only for promotion / 4 CDs |
| 2005 |
Hungarian Jazz History 15. - Binder Károly: Az örök visszatérés mítosza
(Hungarian Jazz History 15. - Binder, Károly: The Myth of Eternal Return) |
Hungaroton | HCD 71193 |
Own |
| 2010 | Karácsony reggelén | Binder Music Manufactory | BMM 2010-01-80386457 | |
| 2011 | Binder Károly, Theo Jörgensmann: Blue in Blue | Binder Music Manufactory | BMM 2011-8238 | |
| 2016 | Eastern European Sounds | IF Music | IFMR002 | |
| 2021 | Károly Binder / Gábor Juhász: Letters from Soul | Binder Music Manufactory | BMM 2021/1 |
Own |
| 2023 | Binder Quartet: Csend a hegyeken túl | Binder Music Manufactory | BMM 2023/1 |
Own |
| 2023 | Béla Bartók: For Children IV. - Binder trio piano, drums and bass | iASK (Institute for Advanced Studies) | ISRC HU-BGU-23-00001-18 |
Own |
| 2023 | Binder Trió: Úton hazafelé | Binder Music Manufactory | BMM2022J02 |
Own |