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Lajos Kathy Horváth was born into a musical family, and started playing jazz very early, at the end of the 1960s. He played in duo with György Szabados from the early 1970s and at the same time with perfecting his improvisational abilities he immersed himself in contemporary music. In 1973 he and Szabados won an award at the San Sebastian Jazz Festival. He was the member of important jazz formations of the time, among them the band Rákfogó with Béla Szakcsi Lakatos and Gyula Babos. From 1975 to 1990 Lajos Kathy-Horváth lived abroad. György Cziffra invited him to play in Paris, where he soon became a student of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation. After winning the Bartók Piano Competition of the institute, Menuhin selected him as his assistant and he taught and performed in this position for a number of years. After the political changes in Hungary he returned home, and has been composing and playing in different formations in his native country ever since. Besides the great jazz artists his main influences have been Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, and Arnold Schönberg. In 2005 Kathy Horváth received a high state decoration for the recording of his great orchestral piece Alpha and Omega, the uniqueness of which is that the composer plays each and every instrument himself.

2005 Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic (Civilian)
2011 Merited Artist
2017 Excellent Artist of Hungary

Year	Title	Publisher	Code	Remark
2001	Szakcsi Béla - Kathy Horváth Lajos: In One Breath	BMC Records	BMC CD 061	Own
2001	Szabados György: Az esküvő (György Szabados: The Wedding)	Hungaroton	HCD 71094	Originally released on LP in 1975
2001	Kathy Horváth Lajos-Lőrinszky Attila: Vázlatok (Sketches)	X-produkció	XP 012
2005	Hungarian Jazz Store	BMC HMIC	BMC PCD 016	Not for sale - only for promotion / 4 CDs
2014	Climate Change	BMC Records	BMC CD 212