Kiss Zoltán
organ
Zoltán Kiss was born in 1964 in Érszentkirály in Szatmár county, Romania. He started his musical studies with learning the piano at the age of ten. In 1982 he completed his high-school education at the Industrial Secondary School in Nagykároly. He started to learn the organ in 1986 at Temesvár. In 1989 he obtained a mechanical engineer's degree at the Temesvár Technical University.
After this he worked as an engineer for five years while he was studying organ playing at the Bartók Béla Vocational Secondary School of Music in Miskolc under the guidance of Endre Virágh and Gabriella Mátyus.
From 1994 Zoltán Kiss continued his studies at the Liszt Ferenc Musical Academy in Debrecen in the class of Viola N. Molnár. In 1998 he gained a Degree of the Teacher of the Organ, and a Chambermusician Certificate. From 1999 he studied at the Department of Church Music of the Liszt Ferenc Musical University in Budapest, then from 2002 also at the Faculty of Organ, where he obtained a Degree of Church Music in 2002, and a Degree of the Artist and Professor of the Organ in 2004.
At the moment he administer the office of the cantor at the Reformed Church in Ócsa, and he also work as a piano teacher and accompanist at the Kodály Zoltán Music School in Gyál.
During his studies he took part in master courses of numerous famous teachers. A couple names from the list: Wolfgang Zerer, Bernhard Klapprott, Michael Belotti, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Zsigmond Szathmári (Germany), D. Titterington (England), H. Eckhardt Schlandt (Romania), Herbert Wulf (Hungary).
After this he worked as an engineer for five years while he was studying organ playing at the Bartók Béla Vocational Secondary School of Music in Miskolc under the guidance of Endre Virágh and Gabriella Mátyus.
From 1994 Zoltán Kiss continued his studies at the Liszt Ferenc Musical Academy in Debrecen in the class of Viola N. Molnár. In 1998 he gained a Degree of the Teacher of the Organ, and a Chambermusician Certificate. From 1999 he studied at the Department of Church Music of the Liszt Ferenc Musical University in Budapest, then from 2002 also at the Faculty of Organ, where he obtained a Degree of Church Music in 2002, and a Degree of the Artist and Professor of the Organ in 2004.
At the moment he administer the office of the cantor at the Reformed Church in Ócsa, and he also work as a piano teacher and accompanist at the Kodály Zoltán Music School in Gyál.
During his studies he took part in master courses of numerous famous teachers. A couple names from the list: Wolfgang Zerer, Bernhard Klapprott, Michael Belotti, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Zsigmond Szathmári (Germany), D. Titterington (England), H. Eckhardt Schlandt (Romania), Herbert Wulf (Hungary).