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28 September 1982 Budapest

Ákos Zarándy started his music studies in 1997 in the solfeggio-music theory department of the King Saint Stephen Secondary School for Music. Since 2000 he studied composing from László Draskóczy. Between 2001 and 2006 he was pupil of Máté Szabó Sipos and Valér Jobbágy at the singing and music teacher and conducting department of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music Budapest. In 2004 he was accepted to the composing department as well, his teacher was János Vajda and from 2007 Zoltán Jeney.

On the 26th of August 2009 – in frames of his composing diploma concert – a cross-section from his first opera („Las dos Fridas”) was played in the Great Hall of the Music Academy by outstanding instrumental soloists (Ildikó Szakács, Ágnes Herczku, Csaba Klenyán, László Ernyei, Ditta Rohmann, András Szalai, László Tömösközi) and the Symphonic Orchestra of the Hungarian Radio conducted by László Tihanyi.

Ákos Zarándy is permanent participant of many contemporary music concerts (Music of Our Age, Budapest Autumn Festival, Youth Contemporary Music Evening, Con Spirito club concerts). His compositions were presented in Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia and Mexico. The Hungarian Radio archived a number of his records and also played them many times.

His work "Nightmare Symphony" was qualified for the final of the "Új Magyar Zenei Fórum 2011" (New Hungarian Music Forum 2009) composers´ competition, and won the special prize of Fidelio Media.

International contemporary music festivals and courses:

2007-2008 Vienna, Budapest
„Herausragende, innovative Aktivitäten des Instituts für Komposition und Elektroakustik” Johannes Kretz, Andrea Szigetvári

2008 Amsterdam
„Gaudeamus Music Week”

2009 Ostrava
„Ostrava Days – New Music Festival”
Richard Ayres, Petr Kotík, Michael Schumacher, Christian Wolff