András Gábor Virágh

Mr. Virágh has been a Senior lecturer at the Liszt Academy of Budapest (Hu), a board member of the Hungarian Composers’ Union, the titular organist of the St. Stephen’s Basilica, Budapest and co-founder of the Studio5 Contemporary Composers’ Group. Mr. Virágh has won three domestic and three international composition awards. In 2009 he recieved the Superior Student of the Faculties of Sciences award of the University of Debrecen – which is an award won by 8 students out of 30.000. The Metamorphosis for 14 players for ensemble was composed in 2017 at the invitation of the Warsaw Autumn Contemporary Music Festival, which celebrates its 60th anniversary. In 2018, the composition was aired more than 50 times by the radio channel France Musique. In 2020 Mr. Virágh has awarded the Classical Composition of the Year award for his composition Gregorian notes for viola and organ. In 2022 Mr Virágh has awarded the Bartók-Pásztory Prize, which is the highest musical award in Hungary. Mr. Virágh’s compositions are published by the Ostinato Musikverlag (Germany), by the Norsk Musikforlag (Norway), by the Editions BIM (Switzerland) by the Kontrapunkt Music Publisher (Budapest).