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Eotvos, Jozsef

Sunday, 2 January, 2011

Jozsef Eotvos was born in Pécs in 1962. He graduated at the Franz Liszt College of Music in Weimar as the student of Roland Zimmer and studied the art of composing from Franz Just. He regularly gives concerts in several countries of the world. He is invited to perform both solo concerts and orchestral concertos. He has made radio and television recordings both in his home land and abroad.

In his master courses, which sometimes concentrate on Baroque and chamber music, he carries out excellent music pedagogical activities. He is a regular jury member of international guitar competitions and the artistic leader of the International Guitar Festival in Esztergom and the Balatonfured International Guitar Festival. In his concerts, besides his own masterpieces and arrangements, the popularization of 20th century and contemporary Hungarian music plays an important role. (Among others: the works of Barna Kovats, Ferenc Farkas, Mate Hollos and Ivan Madarasz.)

His arrangements are musical curiosities which are played on this instrument only by him in the world. His arrangement of Bach´s Goldberg Variations is regarded by critics as the arrangement of the century. Following this success, he produced other arrangements as well, such as Bach´s lute works (Chanterelle), Chopin´s piano pieces (Professional Music Press - Poland and Gendai Guitar - Japan ) and Brahms´s 21 Hungarian Dances (MelBay).

His compositions, which are written on the guitar and other instruments as well, are also published, such as the Willow Variations (Editions Orphée, Columbus Ohio 1991), the Five Aphorisms (Trekel Verlag, Hamburg 1997) and the Featherlets (Trekel Verlag, Hamburg 2000). His book titled "Thoughts On J. S. Bach´s Music And The Performance Of His Lute Works" was published by the University of Pécs in 2006.

He has been a professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest since 2002 and he was the first in Hungary to establish a guitar faculty at a university level.

In 2002 and 2010 he was given Artisjus Awards for the introduction and popularization of hungarian contemporary music and he was awarded with the Franz Liszt Award in 2004 in recognition of his work.

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