Vukán György

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Vukán György (also spelled George Vukán) is a spellbinding virtuoso and one of most versatile musicians in Hungary and Europe. He graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Academy as a classical pianist , at age 18 years old only. Since he was a child, for more than 40 years he has been giving concerts, at the beginning especially as classical and then mostly as a jazz piano artist in different formations (solo, duo, trio, ensemle, big-band, symphonical etc.). As a guest artist, has appeared all around Europe and he was invited for concert tours of a month to USA (1983, 1993). He played together with such brilliant names as Philly Joe Jones, Clifford Jordan, Linda Hopkins, Annette Lowman, Frank Foster, Clarck Terry, Kenny Wheeler etc.. During his career he has also written more than 130 filmscores (2 nominated also for Oscar), 80 songs (Frederico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda etc.), all the 150 Psalms for á capella choir, opera (Black Advent), 6 ballet-music (Derby etc.), Mass (for symphony orch. -soloists & choir), background-music for theatre, television-films, radio-plays as well. Between 1985-1991 he was the leader and composer-conductor of the Creative Art Ensemble. The derivatives of this ensemble were later on the Creative Art Trio (since 1990) and Creative Art Group. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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