Zsigmond Szathmáry

About

Mr. Szathmáry studied composition with Ferenc Szabó and organ with Ferenc Gergely at the Ferenc List Academy of Music in Budapest from 1958-63. He then studied organ with Alois Forer in Vienna and with Helmut Walcha in Frankfurt/Main from 1963-66 and attended the Kölner Kurse für Neue Musik, where he studied with Christoph Caskel, Henri Pousseur and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Darmstadt, where he studied with György Ligeti, from 1964-67.

Among his many honors are First Prize in the Budapest organ competition (1960), the Bach-Preis-Stipendium from the city of Hamburg (1972) and the Franz Liszt Badge from the National Franz Liszt Memorial Committee in Budapest (1987). He has been a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg since 1973.

As an organist, he has worked primarily in Hamburg, but also at the cathedral in Bremen. He has given extensive concert tours throughout the world and has given more than 120 world premières, including music by Peter Eötvös, Vinko Globokar, Heinz Holliger, Hans Ulrich Lehmann, and other composers. As a pianist, he has played music by Helmut Lachenmann and many other composers.

He taught at the Musikhochschule Lübeck from 1972-76 and the Musikhochschule Hannover from 1976-78 and has been a professor at the Musikhochschule Freiburg/Breisgau since 1978. In addition, he has guest lectured throughout Europe and in Japan, South Korea and the USA and is a regular lecturer at the summer academy for organists in Haarlem and at Darmstadt.

Bärenreiter and Moeck publish most of his music.

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