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.

Karasszon Dezső


organ

Place of Birth
Szentes
Date of Birth
1952

 
1966-1971 - attended secondary schools in Debrecen and in Miskolc
1971-1976 - studies in Budapest (organ and musicology, at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music)
1976 - beginning of pedagogical activities in Debrecen, at the Reformed College, continuous co-operation with its mixed choir (the "Kántus"), occupation of the organ pulpit in the Nagyerdő Reformed church, Debrecen
1978 - Hungarian translation of R. Donington, A Performer's Guide to Baroque Music
1980 - consecration of the new organ in Nagyerdő Church,
since then organ vespers every Sunday evening, with chamber and vocal music as well, - Hungarian translation of H. M. Brown, Music in the Renaissance
1983 - Hungarian translation of J. H. van der Meer, Musikinstrumente, - three radio lectures on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Girolamo Frescobaldi
1986 - recording of G. Frescobaldi, Canzoni alla francese (awarded Record of the Year in Hungary), - invitation to lecture on general music history in the Conservatory of Debrecen
1991 - organ faculty in the Conservatory of Debrecen is founded
1993 - Schola Calviniana is founded, a chamber choir, intended to serve the revival of Hungarian reformed versions of Gregorian Chant from the 16th-17th centuries, in its original circumstances: in the service
1994 - Perché me ne rimuneri cosě (immanent retribution and Christianity on the stage of Tosca) appeared,
recording of works for and with organ by Zsolt Gárdonyi
1995 - recording of the Messe ŕ trois voix by César Franck with Salamon Kamp and the Kodály Choir of Debrecen
1996 - the faculty of church music in the Conservatory of Debrecen is founded; - recording of the complete organ sonatas and the Partita sopra Veni Creator Spiritus by Zoltán Gárdonyi, and of G. Frescobaldi, Ricercari ed Inni
1998 - recording of morning prayers from the 16th century and of Whitsun service from the 17th century with the Schola Calviniana
2000 - Synopsis Gradualis (Gregorian Chant and Hungarian Reformed Service) appeared