Artist database

This is the Artist Database of BMC, which includes information about composers, musicians, orchestras, choirs and groups that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary, as well as information about releases recorded with them.

Horváth Marcell


saxophone, saxophone - baritone, clarinet

Place of Birth
Sopron
Date of Birth
1977
Orchestra

 
Marcell Horváth has begun his musical studies at the age of eight at the Music School of Sopron, Western part of Hungary. At first he studied piano, percussion and clarinet in the same time. In 1991 he won first prize at the National Clarinet Competition in Hungary. He continued to study the clarinet at the Béla Bartók Music Secondary School in Budapest from 1992 to 1996, than at the Franz Liszt Music Academy with Prof. Béla Kovács between 1996 and 2000, where he graduated in 2000.

During these years he has won many different prizes: in 1995 he was the second medalist at the Richter János National Clarinet Competition, in 1997 he was the winner of the Hungarian Music Academies' Clarinet Competition. In 2000 the Yamaha Company awarded him a scholarship.

He is the member of the Budapest Saxophone Quartet since 1998, he plays the baritone-saxophone.
 
Year Title Publisher Code Remark
2003 Creative Art Group: Gentle Love Creative Art Ensemble CAE 039
2004 Krisztina Jónás & Budapest Saxophone Quartet: Spirit Allegro Thaler MZA-073
2007 Dés László: Sose halunk meg Sony - BMG 88697096092
2012 Budapest Saxophone Quartet: Imagine Allegro Thaler MZA-105