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Mátyás Antal is the choirmaster of the National Choir. He was born to a musical family in Budapest and studied the flute, double bass and percussion. He was a flute student at the Béla Bartók Music Colleg, and later graduated from the Franz Liszt Music Academy with diplomas in flute and choir conducting. He then became a flautist with the Hungarian State Concert Orchestra, where he remained until 1990. He began conducting in the late seventies and was deputy choirmaster of the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra, and then choirmaster of the Székesfehérvár Symphony Orchestra. In 1984 he was appointed director of the Budapest Chorus and 1986, became a rehearsal conductor at the State Concert Orchestra, where he remained until 1990 when he took over the State Choir, known today as the National Choir. Mátyás Antal has worked as a choir conductor in virtually every country in Europe as well as Japan and made numerous recordings for the Hungaroton, Naxos and Portugasom labels.

He has received the Bartók-Pásztory Prize in 2015.