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Sirák Péter

organ
Place of Birth
Date of Birth
1950
 
Péter Sirák graduated from the Liszt Ferenc University of Music, Budapest as an organist, choir conductor and church musician, attaining his Ph.D. in church music in 2004. He regularly gives concerts in Hungary and Germany and has toured, in addition to Europe, India, Israel, Japan, Columbia, Mexico and Venezuela. He has recorded several radio programs and CDs, playing the organ of the Great Church of Debrecen and the Abbey of Tihany, Hungary. In 1998 he was commissioned by the London organ builder Mander to record Hungarian works on the firm's new instrument in Nagasaki. In 2001 he released - as first Hungarian recording - the complete works of Brahms, performed on the organ of the Marktkirche, Wiesbaden. In 2002 he played the first volume of D. Zipoli's Sonate d'Intavolatura per Organo e Cimbalo on the Budapest copy of an Italian Baroque organ. He is associate professor at the Apor Vilmos Catholic Teacher's Training College, Zsámbék and teaches at the Church Music Department of the University of Music, Budapest. He has been involved in organ research, performing a nationwide survey of organs in Hungary and designing with others a new organ for the Franciscan Church of Pest. Besides, he has designed the Italian Baroque organ copy built in Budapest-Farkasrét, and has worked as an expert in restoring organs.

In 2020 he was given the title Knight's Cross Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic (civil division).

 
Year Title Publisher Code Remark
1999 Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix: Te Deum; Drei Psalmen Op. 78. No 2/ Kern, Matthias: Zwei biblische Szenen Hungaroton HCD 31854
2004 Antonio Mortero: Primo Libro de Canzoni Hungaroton HCD 32199 Own