Ferenc Nemeth

about

Ferenc Nemeth was born in Keszthely (Hungary), grow up in Zalacsany (small village of a 1000 people) and started to play the drums when he was three years old. His mother a school teacher, his father a businnesman and amateur drummer, who gave him his first drum lessons. At age fourteen he started to play in a top40 band and moved out of the family house to study classical percussion at the Richter János Conservatory in Gyõr. After compleating highschool, he moved to Budapest where he started to play different styles of music, while attended to the Franz Liszt Academy of Music's Jazz Department. Soon Ferenc became one of the busiest jazz drummers in Hungary. After the Academy, he got a scholarship to Berklee College of Music and moved to Boston where he lived for three years. He also attended to the New England Conservatory and did one year as a graduate student. In 2001 he applied and got accepted (as the only drummer and first Hungarian) to the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz program - along with fellow students and current bandmates Lionel Loueke and Massimo Biolcati - where he studied for two years. The Monk Institute is a selective program that allows students to study and perform with some of the finest Jazz musicians in the world, including three legends Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Terence Blanchard. While in Los Angeles, Ferenc started to work with the Billy Childs Trio, Bob Sheppard, Dave Carpenter, John Clayton, Jimmy Heath, The Henry Mancini Orchestra...jus

top songs

albums

Night Songs

Triumph (feat. Lionel Loueke, Joshua Redman, Kenny Werner)

▥

UnStandard Too

Freedom

Unstandard

▥

Bridges of Souls (feat. Jimmy Haslip, Russell Ferrante)

Triumph

▥

Round Count Up (feat. Dayna Stephens & Massimo Biolcati)

▥

Folk Song (feat. Dayna Stephens & Massimo Biolcati)

▥

Triumph (feat. Lionel Loueke, Joshua Redman & Kenny Werner) [Bonus Track Version]

▥

Imaginary Realm

▥

Virgin Forest

similar artists