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Kristóf Bacsó was born in Budapest in 1976. He started his saxophone studies at the age of 12. After his graduation from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, he also studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where his instructors were Joe Lovano, George Garzone, Greg Hopkins, Hal Crook and Bill Pierce. In 1999 together with Zoltán Zana he won the Dezső �Ablakos� Lakatos Saxophone Talent Contest organized by the Hungarian Radio. For five and a half years he lived in France and the US, performed in most countries of Europe, in the United States and in Japan. In 2003, after obtaining his Bachelor�s Degree, he moved to NYC and worked as a freelance musician. In 2003 and 2005 he was featured on Gabor Winand�s albums Agent Spirituel and Different Garden, which received �Choc�, the highest rank from the well-known French jazz journal, Jazzman. In 2004 he moved back to Europe and since then has worked as a musician, composer and teacher. He has performed with well-known artists like Eddie Henderson, John Pattitucci, Tony Lakatos, Nico Morelli, Giovanni Mirabassi, Kálmán Oláh, Gábor Gadó, and the groups Europlane Orchestra, the Budapest Jazz Orchestra, Nigun, and the Imre Kőszegi Quartet. With his own group the Kristóf Bacsó 4, which he founded in 2003, he plays his own music, based on traditional jazz and contemporary classical music. Since 2004 he has been a professor at the Béni Egressy Conservatory in Budapest.