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.

Magyari Imre


horn

Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1954
Orchestra

 
Imre Magyari was born in Budapest. Between 1972 and 78 he studied at the Franz Liszt Acedemy of Music, as a student of professor Zoltán Lubik. Since 1975 he has been a solo hornist of the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra. He has performed under the direction of such renowned conductors as Ferencsik, Abbado, Dohnányi, Solti, Doráti, Masur and Kobayashi, along with others.

Since 1978 Imre Magyari is a professor at the Teacher Training Institute of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Several of his students have become solo hornists of major Hungarian and foreign Orchestras.

Since 1980 he is a member of the Budapest Brass Quintet. As a soloist, Imre Magyari has given many concerts in all European countries as well as in the United States and in Japan. He was the winner of four international horn competitions :
in 1976 in Pabianice (Poland), in Markneukirchen (Germany),
in 1978 in Vercelli (Italy) and in 1980 in Budapest (Hungary).

Imre Magyari has made numerous solo and chamber music recordings in Germany, France, Japan and Hungary. He is considered as an illustrious artist at such well-known record companies as Erato, Belaphon and Hungaroton. He has given master classes and courses abroad several times. A number of contemporary composers have written and dedicated new compositions for Imre Magyari.

In 1986, he was awarded with the Liszt prize for his artistic activity by the Hungarian Ministry of Culture. In 2000 he became professor at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. In 2001 he made his 20th CD recording, in which he plays horn concertos composed for him. (Concertos for I. M. Hungaroton) His concerts have been sponsored by C. S. Willson Instruments since 2001.
 
Year Title Publisher Code Remark
1983 Budapesti Rézfúvós Kvintett
(Budapest Brass Quintet)
Hungaroton SLPX 12486 LP
Reissue on CD: HCD 12486 (1995)
1985 Balassa Sándor: Hívások és kiáltások Op.33/ Az utolsó pásztor Op.30/ Rézfúvós kvintett Op.31/ Kvartett ütőhangszerekre Op.18
(Sándor Balassa: Calls and Cries Op.33/ The Last Shepherd Op.30/ Brass Quintet Op.31/ )
Hungaroton SLPX 12557 LP
1987 Barcsi Rézfúvós Kamarazenei Fesztivál 1986
(Barcs Brass Festival 1986)
Radioton SLPX 12953
1988 Sugár Miklós: Ballada; Musica agile; Chorea; Áttűnések; Találkozások; Mozaik
(Sugár, Miklós: Ballad; Musica agile; Chorea; Dissolves; Meetings; Mosaic)
Hungaroton SLPX 12970 LP
1993 Attenberg, Kurt: Kamarazene II.
(Atterberg, Kurt: Chamber Music II.)
Marco Polo (Naxos) 8.223405
1995 Koetsier, Jan: Metamorphoses Op. 102/ Introduciton and Variations on the Vysehrad theme Op. 71/ Brown: Concertino/ William Schmidt: Music for Scrimshaws
(Koetsier, Jan: Metamorphoses Op. 102/ Introduciton and Variations on the Vysehrad theme Op. 71/ Brown: Concertino/ William Schmidt: Music for Scrimshaws)
Koch-Schwann 3-1173-2 H1 LP
1996 Magyar kortárs zeneszerzők rézfúvós kamarazenéje
(Brass Music by Hungarian Contemporary Composers)
Hungaroton HCD 31680
1997 Concertos for Brass Quintet & Orchestra
(Concertos for Brass Quintet & Orchestra)
Koch-Schwann 3-1542-2 H1
1998 Budapest Brass Quintet: Rhapsody in Brass
(Budapest Brass Quintet: Rhapsody in Brass)
Koch-Schwann 3-6708-2
1998 Huszár Lajos: LXIX. Zsoltár Op. 4/ Rézfúvós kvintett Op. 12/ A magány dalai Op. 16/ Kamarakoncert gordonkára és tizenhét vonósra Op. 20/ Dies sanctificatus Op.15
(Lajos Huszár: The 69th Psalm/ Brass Quintet Op. 12/ Songs of Loneliness/ Chamber Concerto for Cello and 17 Strings Op. 20/ Dies sanctificatus Op. 15)
Hungaroton HCD 31791
1999 Budapest Brass Quintet: Kinderzirkus
(Budapest Brass Quintet: Children's Circus)
Koch-Schwann 3-6721-2
2005 Sugár Miklós: Mozaik; Musica agile; Áttűnések; Felhő-variációk; Ballada; Chorea; Találkozások
(Miklós Sugár: Mosaic; Musica agile; Dissolves; Cloud Variations; Reminiscences; Ballad; Chorea; Meetings)
Hungaroton HCD 32326