Dely Róbert
guitar
Róbert Dely was born into a family of musicians. He started playing the guitar at age 15 in amateur blues and rock bands, and turned towards jazz at age 17. He became a private student of Miklós Faragó, then Sándor Horányi, and when he was accepted to the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, he studied under Gyula Babos, Attila László, and Horányi. He formed his first professional band in 1992 called Delyrium, with which they played Delys compositions in clubs throughout Hungary. Members of the band included at different times: János Lutz, Sándor Tóth, Tamás Berditz, Sándor Tiba, Péter Molnár, Viktor Hárs, István Baló, and Gábor Winand. In 1995 he ranked first at the Lausanne jazz competition defeating three hundred other guitarists. He received his diploma at the Academy of Music in 1996, and even before that he had started making recordings for the Hungarian Radio. In 1999 he formed the Roby Dely Group with Elemér Balázs, Gábor Cselik, Lajos Gyenge, Viktor Hárs, Csaba Klenyán, and Gábor Winand. They recorded their first CD entitled Downtown Stories in 2000 (BMC CD 029).