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He started his music studies 1990 in the music department of a secondary school in Budapest. In 1991 he received his first invitation to write adapted music work, which was incidental music to a radio play for the Hungarian Radio. In 1993 he composed his first theater music to Sophocles’ Women of Trachis at the University of Theater and Film. Up to now he has composed incidental music to around 30 more performances.

Between 1994 and 2001 he was music director of the Laocoön Group. In 1996 he was accepted to the bass guitar department of the Jazz Department of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, where he graduated in 2001. Between 1999 and 2004 he regularly attended the Bartók Seminar in Szombathely and the courses of Michael Jarrell, Marco Stroppa, Manuel Hidalgo, Martin Bresnik and Örjan Sandred.

Since 1999 he’s been member of the EAR Group as composer and bass guitarist. They have presented numerous new pieces together. In 2000 he took part in the ISMEAM (International Summer Meeting of Electro-Acoustic Music) in Sárvár, and the same year he pursued further studies at the composing department of the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, where his master was Michael Jarrell. He also studied adapted music and media composing in the class of Klaus Peter Sattler. Besides, the master courses of George Aperghis and Péter Eötvös influenced him as well.

He composed soundtrack for the first time in 2001 to the movie „Hukkle” with Balázs Barna. The same year he taught music practice to actors in the studio of the Bárka Theater for a year. In 2002, as musician and composer he participated in the project called „New chansons - literary monuments with voice from the era of doubts” with 12 composers, 12 actors and 12 poets. As request of the Hungarian Radio he composed „In Southeast Asia” for four narrators, a flute quartet and a sampled gamelan orchestra with live electronics in 2002.

Next year he composed music to the two-act children’s musical play titled „A mihasznák” in the Zsigmond Móricz Theater of Nyíregyháza. The same year he attended the summer course of the Indian santur artist Nandkishohr Mulley in Berlin. In 2004 he took part in Daniel Ott’s course, the New-Music-Theater in frames of the Making New Waves Festival. His composition „A Kárhozat Kertje” (Garden of Damnation, 2004) was presented in the Trafó House of Contemporary Arts in Budapest.

The same year he composed and orchestrated Bea Palya’s album „Álom, álom, kitalálom - énekelt mese. In the second semester of 2005 he studied tentative music and theater from Daniel Ott at the composing department of the Universität des Künstes (Berlin) in frames of the Erasmus Programme.

His chamber opera was presented in the Sophiensaele of Berlin in 2007. In 2008 he took part in the formation the international MuPATh (Music-Performance-Art-Theater) Company. Since the autumn of 2008 he’s been holding Fulbright scholarship at the Wesleyan University, in the class of Ron Kuivila, Anthony Braxton and Alvin Lucier.

His interactive cell-phone installation called OperaLooper was performed at the Brooklyn Museum in 2009. Receives the Kodály Zoltán Composition Scholarship in 2010. Living in Budapest and Vienna.