Academic degree, university post: DLA, senior lecturer
Date, place of birth: 1983, Tapolca
Studies:
2001-2006: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music – organ, Gábor Lehotka
2001-2007: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music – composition, János Vajda
2007-2010: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music – Doctoral School
2014: Awarded DLA. Title of dissertation: A genre in illegality – Compositions of masses in Hungary between 1949-1969
Master classes:
Organ master classes: Olivier Latry (2003, 2004, 2008), Ludger Lohmann (2005, 2008), Zsigmond Szathmáry (2000) and David Titterington (2000, 2002)
Composition master classes: Betsy Jolas (2003), Johannes Kretz (2002), Michael Jarell (2002)
Recordings:
Till Now (Hungaroton) 2005 – Márton Levente Horváth
Suburban Nights (private release) 2007 – organ works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Hindemith and Horváth
Publications:
Jubilate Deo (Editio Musica Budapest, 2012)
Missa omni tempore (Kortárs ZeneMűhely, 2010)
Nunc dimittis (Kontrapunkt Zeneműkiadó, 2011)
O salutaris hostia (Kontrapunkt Zeneműkiadó, 2010)
O vos omnes (Kontrapunkt Zeneműkiadó, 2010)
Membership:
Hungarian Music Society (board member), Hungarian Composers’ Union
Teaching activities, posts as guest professor, principal master classes:
2010-: Kodály Zoltán Hungarian Choral School, music theory, music literature, teacher of composition and the organ, piano accompanist
2015-: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music – teacher of the organ at the Church Music Department
Composer activities:
Principal works:
- Maria songs – mezzo, clarinet, cimbalom, violoncello (2004)
- Missa omni tempore (2005)
- Violin Concerto (2007)
- Túl /Beyond/ – harpsichord, string quintet (2007)
- Officium – 3 clarinets (2009)
- Psalm 25 – soprano, organ, harp (2011)
- Psalmoid – soprano, saxophone, organ (2012)
- Missa ‘in omnem terram’ (2014)
- Imaragana – soprano, clarinet, guitar, violoncello (2015)
- Viivre – for orchestra (2015)
Chamber, chorus, organ works
Other activities:
2003-2013: organist of St. Ladislas Church, Kőbánya
2014-: organist of Felsővíziváros Church of St. Anne
2014-: organist of Császárfürdő St. Stephen’s Chapel, Budapest
Principal concerts:
2009, 2011 Sochi organ festival (Russia)
2011 Paris (Liszt: Christ, with the Hungarian Radio Music Ensembles)
Presentations:
MINI Festival, (Túl – 2009, Psalmoid No. 1 – 2015)
CAFe (Imaragana – 2015)
Music of Our Age (Symphony – 2012)
Doctoral concert (MÜPA Budapest, Missa ‘in omnem terram’, 2014)
2015 Salzburg Cathedral (Austria) – Missa brevis in honorem Sanctae Ritae
Prizes, awards:
Académie Musicale de Villecroze scholarship (2004, 2005)
Kodály Zoltán Scholarship (2008, 2009, 2010)
Fischer Annie Scholarship (2007)
Hungarian Academy of Arts Scholarship (2015)
Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music composers’ competition – 1st prize (2002, 2004)
Fugato Orchestra Crossover Composers’ Competition – 3rd prize (2011)
Vántus István Composers’ Competition prize (2015)
Contact: horvathmlevente[at]gmail.com