DAVID PAVLOVITS

Hungary

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The Hungarian guitarist-composer Dávid Pavlovits began to play the guitar at the age of 17. He played the guitar only three years when he has won a prize at an international guitar competition (Zory, Poland). Two years later he won 1^st prize at Europe’s oldest guitar competition, at the Esztergom Guitar Festival. The leading Polish daily newspaper, the “Gazeta” described him as a personality “close to a genius”. He was the first Hungarian guitarist to give a solo recital in the Carnegie Hall of New York. His compositions are part of examination program of Trinity College, London, and played worldwide. He has composed electronic music for media like Sony Pictures Television, AXN TV channel, and film music for Hungarian and Iranian movie productions.

He attended the guitar and composition class of the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Szeged. The most important influence during his studies in Hungary he received from the professor Ede Roth. He graduated at the Darmstadt Academy of Music in guitar with distinction, later he has also graduated the Gutenberg University in Mainz and the Musikhochschule in Munich. He took classes with the following masters: Tilman Hoppstock, Olaf Van Gonnissen, Walter Schumacher, (guitar), Lajos Huszár, Karl-Wieland Kurz (composition), Grigory Gruzman (piano). He has attended Leo Brouwer’s master classes which played an important role in his compositional development. He has collaborated for with the composer György Kurtág.

He has been teaching guitar, music theory and music history since 2001. Until 2003, his music seminars at the German Department presented topics like Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano and orchestral music and the musical background of Thomas Mann’s Dr Faustus. Recently he is head of guitar department at the Faculty of Music of the University of Szeged. He is currently one of the most successful guitar teachers in Hungary. Since 2010 this department has been the most successful one in Hungary, training a great number of young artists and competition winners.

Since 1994 he has taken solo concert tours, radio and TV broadcasts in over 30 countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the USA, recitals in important cultural centres like Los Angeles, Washington D.C, New York, Montréal, Puerto Rico, Rome, Jerusalem, Frankfurt, Geneva, Paris, Cairo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Vienna, Bucharest, Minsk, Moscow, Belgrade, Warsaw or Budapest. His Concerto for guitar and ensemble was premiered 2018 by Grammy-award winner William Kanengiser, conducted by David Pavlovits. The work was performed in Hong Kong and Shanghai as well.