About Patrik
He was born on May 23, 1998 in Salgótarján, and started studying the violin at the age of 7 in his hometown. During his years at the music school, he won several county and regional competitions, in 2011 the MVM initiated “Adj teret a tehetségnek!” (Give space to talent!) could also participate in the program. This year, he received a Gold Cum Laude award at the National Ferenc Liszt Literary Competition. He continued his studies at the violin department of the Bartók Béla Music Academy in Budapest as a student of Zoltán Tuska, where he obtained a professional qualification in 2017.
He has been interested in composing since the age of eight, he was self-taught for a long time, but in his last year of high school he attended the classes of teacher Árpád Barabás. He achieved his first major success at the Rezső Sugár Composer Competition held in 2016, where he won 2nd place.
In 2017, he was admitted to the Department of Music Composition at the Liszt Ferenc University of Music, in the department of Gyula Fekete, head of department and deputy rector. In his first academic year, in 2018, he won 1st place at the Beethoven Composer Competition in Buda with Meine Qual. with his composition. This was followed by several national and international competition results. The most prestigious of these: in 2018, he was the finalist of the Bartók World Competition and the 2nd place of the Szokolay InspirArt Composer Competition. In 2019, he received the 1st prize at the Music Academy competition, the Generace in Ostrava, and the Special Prize at the 2022 Ise-Shima International Composer Competition in Japan.
In 2021, at the opening ceremony of the Academy of Music, he received the Andor Neszlényi Award, founded by Judit Neszlényi, a pianist and composer living in America.
In 2022, he was awarded the Junior Prima award by the professional board for his work as a composer and performer.
In 2022, he obtained his master’s degree with honors under the guidance of Bella Máté at the Academy of Music, and is currently a student of the university’s doctoral program in composition. In addition, in the academic year 2022/23, he taught in the department of composition at the Ferenc Liszt University of Music in the position of demonstrator.
On September 1, 2021, his church-commissioned work entitled: Le Devleske (To God) was presented in the St. Stephen’s Basilica in Budapest. This is the first mass in the history of music in Lovári, the newly translated text of which was approved by Pope Francis. The work is based on vocal and instrumental gypsy music, from the simple motifs, through the instrumentation and apparatus, to the formal structure, everything originates from the music of the Roma people. In addition, we get a taste of the gypsy music of some peoples while listening to the work. On September 9, 2021, within the framework of the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress, the work could also be performed within the liturgical framework with the main celebration of Alfredo José Espinoza Mateus, Archbishop of Quito. On both occasions, unique artists such as Rózsa Farkas, a dulcimer with the Liszt Prize, Nikoletta Szőke, a singer with the Junior Prima Prize, or Nikolas Takács, a performer with thirty-two platinum and gold records, took part in the soloist role. The Grazioso Chamber Orchestra, made up of members of the National Philharmonic Orchestra, was conducted by Alpaslan Ertüngealp, a world-renowned conductor of Hungarian descent born in Istanbul and an Artisjus awardee. As one of the cornerstones of the Congress, the work proclaimed an important message: it forms a bridge between people, regardless of religion or origin.
Most of his compositions are based on European gypsy music. Starting with authentic Romani folk music and ending with the gypsy music that is so popular even today. But he also places great emphasis on the presentation of acoustic and psychological phenomena during the creation of his pieces. In 2021, he was one of the scholarship recipients of the New National Excellence Program, where he researched the possibilities of illustrating acoustic correlations on a symphony orchestra.
In addition to composing, he continues to actively play the violin and also works as a concert organizer. He was invited to the 2017 Sziget Festival by the International Sziget Symphony Orchestra to play a violin role, and from the following year he was able to participate in the festival as the orchestra’s artistic director. From 2018, they could appear on the classical music stage in the main program time several times during the duration of the event. With the orchestra, they had the opportunity to perform with world-famous soloists such as Roby Lakatos and Jenő Lisztes, or Tamás Kökeny, Gyula Várady and Zoltán Sándor, known from the Virtuosos. But in addition, outstanding soloist talents of the Liszt Ferenc University of Music were also given the opportunity to perform.
In 2019, he was able to perform his own composition in front of an audience of more than 70,000 people on the Main Stage of the Sziget Festival with the participation of American dancer Drew Dolaz at an event organized within the framework of ‘Human Rights’, where they spoke out against school bullying.
In 2023, for the 150th anniversary of the unification of Pest, Buda and Óbuda, he is the winner of the international composition competition announced as a joint application of the Capital City Municipality and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. The winning work was presented on September 2, 2023 by the Festival Orchestra, conducted by Iván Fischer, at Heroes’ Square (Hősök tere).
In 2023, he won the Innovative Music Project Award of the newly founded György Cziffra Festival. In 2025, his winning concept will be presented by the Cziffra Festival. The idea focuses on addressing young people, in which the relationship between space and music and its rethinking play a major role, all within the framework of a charity concert. He won 3rd place at the Generace International Composers’ Competition in Ostrava in 2024 with his piece Karma. On May 6, 2024, he was awarded the Junior Composer of the Year Award for 2023 by the collective rights management organization Artisjus at the newly built Hungarian Music House.
Studies:
2022- : Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Doctoral School – Budapest
2020-2022: Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music – Budapest
– Obtaining an MA degree
2017-2020: Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music – Budapest
– Obtaining a BA degree
2012-2017: Béla Bartók Vocational School of Music and High School – Budapest
– obtaining a high school diploma