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László SÁRY was
born in Győr, in Western Hungary on 1 January 1940.
He studied composition at the Budapest Academy of
Music with Endre Szervánszky, graduating in 1966.
In 1970, he founded - together with László VIDOVSZKY, Zoltán JENEY, Péter EÖTVÖS and Albert SIMON - the Budapest New Music Studio of which he has been a member ever since. He has contributed to the activities of the Studio both as a composer and as a performer, in his own works and in those of others. He has appeared in both capacities in many European countries. His visit to Darmstadt and his encounter there with the ideas and the music of Christian WOLFF confirmed his determination to research avenues of compositional thinking and practice other than those traditionally accepted in Europe. The first product of his change of outlook was Sounds for... (1972). |
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He became Music Director of the József Katona Theatre, and Professor of Musical Performing Practice at the University of Drama and Film of Budapest in 1990. In 1994 he started participating in the MUSE (the source of music, balance and tolerance) projects instigated by Lord Yehudi MENUHON, which is an educational method for disadvantaged children, built on music, singing and movement. He spent three months in Tokyo in 1996 with a grant from the Japan Foundation, where he studied traditional Japanese theatre, music and dance. His Studies for Steam Engines won 3rd prize in the 7th International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music (IREN) in 1998. He has more than eighty works from chamber music to orchestrals, and has written three chamber operas. He has been awarded for his work several prizes in Hungary: the Kassák Prize in 1979, the Erkel Prize in 1985, and the Bartók-Pásztory prize in 1993, Merited Artist in 2000. He has been regular member of the Széchenyi Academy of Arts and Letters since 1999. |
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